"Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness."

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"Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness."

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"Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

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"For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending both what's available and who gets to read it."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

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"Historical fiction of course is particularly research-heavy. The details of everyday life are there to trip you up. Things that we take for granted, indeed, hardly think about, can lead to tremendous mistakes."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

Writing, History, Research, Fiction, Truth

"I have no problem in moving a date one way or another or coming up with a subplot that gets my characters in (or out) of a fix more rambunctiously than the extant records show."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

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"Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire."

James Joyce, Irish Novelist

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"Scotland consistently produces world-class writers."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

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"If a reporter doesn't like the person he's writing about, it shows up in his article."

Willie Stargell, American Athlete

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"People keep asking me ...How to instantly become a better writer? It's simple: Use "power words" and see for yourself."

Ziad K. Abdelnour, Lebanese Author

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"A writer writesregardless...even though...notwithstanding...despite...at any rate...anyhow...nevertheless...in the face of...undeterred by...heedless of...and because.The true writer simply continues to write."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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Explore more quotes by Georges Simenon

"Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person."

Diplomacy

"Of course, I also gave him the ineffable pleasures of pipe smoking. And no children, because when this character was created I did not yet have the four children I later had. I must add I also gave him a certain taste for food."

Food

"I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words."

Writing

"I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men."

Man

"I adore life but I don't fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible."

Life

"It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around it. I arrived from between two of these mountains, I looked at the lake and the moon, and that was it, nothing else happened."

Moon

"The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world."

People

"The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world."

Nature

"One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication."

Communication

"Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness."

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