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Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.


Julian Barnes
I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas.
Helmut Newton
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All I can guess is that when I write, I forget that it's not real. I'm living the story, and I think people can read that sincerity about the characters. They are real to me while I'm writing them, and I think that makes them real to the readers as well.
Stephenie Meyer
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Generally, what adults want to know is my background, why I write what I write, and very personal insights that some say are inspiring.
Patricia Polacco
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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
Barbara Kingsolver
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I think about my editor when I write. She's a good friend, too.


Jostein Gaarder
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I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself as an artist. So I always say that I write for the same people that Picasso painted for. I think he painted for himself.
August Wilson
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My poetry is the most disappointing thing for me that I've ever written. When I say I can write everything, I don't say I can write everything well.
Jess Walter
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I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.
Bella Thorne
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I don't read much of what I write because I worry about unintentionally borrowing something.


Kelley Armstrong
I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.
Lisa Morton
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Everything I know, I write about. My only research is what I did.


Mort Walker
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I think most of my songs are based on an emotion and in every song I write, there's at least a partial truth.
James Maslow
I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.
Quentin Tarantino
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I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
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I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.


Robert B. Parker
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I write entertainment. There are some books you read but don't inhale. There are books that will change your life.
Michael Robotham
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I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.
Jean M. Auel
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I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.
Ernest Gaines
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Every life of a character is within a context. If I write detached from a social and political background, my story looks like a soap opera where everybody is indoors, not working and living off their emotions.
Isabel Allende
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