"Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself."

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"You spill a lot of beans in historical fiction. Crime fiction is about spilling no beans at all. You spill the least beans you possibly can. So because I had already written historical fiction before I was really good at the spilling beans section, but the new skill I had to learn when I was writing Brighton Belle was difficult. I had to avoid the equivalent of shouting, "this character's a murderer! Look who did it!."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

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"Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"We write, edit, and rewrite the story of our own life employing descriptive words, metaphors, and symbols. Our lives are full of symbols including those supplied by nature and religion, which touch upon the mystical and spiritual aspects of life. Symbols inspire enduring hope by formulating idealist expectations."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

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"I'm a fairly undisciplined writer."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"Writers aren't exactly people, they're a bunch of people trying to be one person."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."

John F. Kennedy, American President

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"Pour your heart onto the page."

A. D. Posey, American Poet

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"One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane."

Laurell K. Hamilton, American Writer

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"Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus little effort is expended on reading them: and the good fortune that attends the obscure is that the reader toils at them and ascribes to them the pleasure he has in fact gained from his own zeal."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me."

"Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy."

"I'm a fairly undisciplined writer."

"Writers aren't exactly people, they're a bunch of people trying to be one person."

"My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."

"Pour your heart onto the page."

"One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane."

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"A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find."

"Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself."