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"I'm proud to be a writer. I'm doing the job all my heroes did."
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"To have touched the feet of Christ is no excuse for mistakes in punctuation.If a man writes well only when he's drunk, then I'll tell him: Get drunk. And if he says that it's bad for his liver, I'll answer: What's your liver? A dead thing that lives while you live, whereas the poems you write live without while."
"It will be sent that, although the writer's love is verily a jealous love, it is a jealousy for and not of his creatures. He will tolerate no interference either with them or between them and himself."
"There is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out."
"Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens."
"We write every day, we fight every day, we think and scheme and dream a little dream every day. manuscripts pile up in the kitchen sink, run-on sentences dangle around our necks. we plant purple prose in our gardens and snip the adverbs only to thread them in our hair. we write with no guarantees, no certainties, no promises of what might come and we do it anyway. this is who we are."
"Authoring a book is the sound of your voice around the world."
"A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample leisure after 1593, assuming he wasn't too dead to work."
"I have a handful of prayers that I pray all the time... One is that God will put my books into the right hands at the right times. I've prayed this prayer thousands of times, and God has answered it in dramatic fashion countless times. The right book in the right hands at the right time can save a marriage, avert a mistake, demand a decision, plant a seed, conceive a dream, solve a problem, and prompt a prayer. That is why I write. And that's why, for me, a book sold is not a book sold; a book sold is a prayer answered. I don't know the name and situation of every reader, but God does, and that's all that matters."
"A lot of people who read my novel 'Smog City' ask me why I never killed off either of the two main characters. To be honest, it's because I've given them life. Not literally of course, but since I spent so much time developing and creating my characters, they've ended up with complex personalities, in fact they're almost sentient in a way, and to write them off as dead would be like killing a close friend to me."
"A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction."
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"There is just too much cruelty, selfishness and corruption in the world not to want to crush the poisonous will of those who cause it by writing about it as powerfully as I can."
"He is polite, the perfect gentleman at first. Yet she knows his kindness is an act he performs for himself to justify what he's about to do."
"People love books because they're searching for answers to deep, unconscious questions - and books get as close as it's possible to get."
"The breeze around them seemed to drop " dead " like a door to the best things had just closed."
"Nader refused to bring her the feathery dream catcher " her asabikeshiinh " with its willow-web and invisible 'lady spider' apparently weaving her spells " an object Bea insisted always hung above her in bed."
"There are times when I can't believe how much ridiculous stuff happens to me and how brilliant it is to be in a position to write about it."
"A silence absorbed them both " a lack of sound so potent it blackened the place with something richer than hate."
"Writing is a solitary existence, especially if you forget to chat to your friends " sorry, I meant characters."
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