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Authors Quotes

"Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves."

"I love deadlines I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by"

"It's not a lie. It's a gift for fiction."

"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by."

"The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work"

"I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be"

"112"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of the past centuries"

"The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes"

"I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me"

"It’s with bad sentiments that one makes good novels."

"To keep the readers interested, and coming back, and to keep coming up with new and exciting ways to present stories… is an absolutely incredible accomplishment"

"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it"

"A movie script is a barebones thing, and publishing a novel is like opening yourself up for criticism and analysis"

"A writer should have another lifetime to see if he's appreciated"

"A writer wields the power to thrive on dialogue and reach into the human soul."

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