"A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy."

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"A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy."

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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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"To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year."

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"Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar."

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"The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it."

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"The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people."

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"I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens."

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"It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer."

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"The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war."

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"Writing is hard work and bad for the health."

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"I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat."

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"There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement."

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