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Writing about Writers
To be a successful writer: ' "You must have talent. A thick skin. And most important luck... To make luck you must be clever, or blessed." ' The Delusionist, Grant Buday
'I wonder if I'll ever write anything worth anything.'
The Help, Kathryn Stockett
'What's the point of writing something that no one will ever read? I forget who said that a work of art does not exist without an audience--that it's not enough for it to be made.'
Motherhood, Sheila Heti
'[N]early everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.'
The World According to Garp, John Irving
'This is how we go on: one day at a time, one meal at a time, one pain at a time, one breath at a time... If you write books, you go one page at a time.' Bag of Bones, Stephen King
'As a child I wrote small books which I began with the words The End. I needed to know the end was guaranteed.'
Bluebeard's Egg, Margaret Atwood
'The writing had burned off all thoughts of the real world, at least temporarily. I think that, in the end, that's what it's for. Good or bad, it passes the time.' Bag of Bones, Stephen King
My teacher 'said that when you are writing a book you have to include some descriptions of things... She also said that I should describe people in the story by mentioning one or two details about them so that people could make a picture of them in their head.'
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Mark Haddon
'When you make your daily bread in the land of make-believe, the line between what is and what seems to be is much finer.'
Bag of Bones, Stephen King
'Writers are a strange breed. Magpies, scavengers. So fearful of the world they would prefer to describe it than live in it, yet brave to the point of idiocy when in pursuit of inspiration. The real ones will slip their heads into the noose and pull the lever themselves if they think a hanging would make a good tale.'
The Only Child, Andrew Pyper
'[B]ut in dreams, perhaps everyone is a novelist.'
Bag of Bones, Stephen King
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