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William Faulkner

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do...

She said she never wanted to have secrets from me nor from herself, which is...

Charles Bukowski

When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another...

"My very small part in WATCHMEN is that, every now and then, Alan would phone...

The ability to dream is all I have to give. That is my responsibility; that...

This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word...

If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.

You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing...

Raymond Chandler

A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.

I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given...

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being...

Dashiell Hammett

He looked rather pleasantly, like a blonde satan.

Winston S. Churchill

Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at...

No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to...

When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep...

From my earliest years I had always wanted to be a writer. It was not that I...

Gordon B. Hinckley

All writers should be put in a box and thrown in the sea.

Nancy M. Malone

You do what you were made to do. Some of us were made to read and write....

if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.

So don't be frightened, dear friend, if a sadness confronts you larger than...

Almost everyone can remember losing his or her virginity, and most writers...

Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

Gustave Flaubert

You don't make art out of good intentions.

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I have no problem going on record with this and probably have gone on record with this before there aren't that many people who I respect. There just aren't.

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