"That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there."

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"That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there."

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"If you want to be happy, be."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

Want,

"When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"Only those who want everything done for them are bored."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

Want,

"I do want to go another way - to write something completely different."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

Want,

"If you want to be loved, be lovable."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"Don't say "the White House wants." Buildings can't want."

Donald Rumsfeld, American Politician

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"I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements."

Penelope Lively, English Author

Want,

"I'm not going to become anybody I don't want to become."

Kristen Bell, American Actress

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"Star Trek has brought so much of what I want within my grasp."

DeForest Kelley, American Actor

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"But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end."

Writing

"I don't often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood when originating the concept."

Books

"I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime."

Chance

"People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?"

Life

"I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens."

Books

"I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale."

Writing

"The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it."

Emotional

"I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage."

Being

"That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house."

Beginning

"Because we build the worlds we wouldn't mind living in. They contain scary things, problems, but also a sense of rightness that makes them alive and makes us want to live there."

Living