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Every reader re-creates a novel - in their own imagination, anyway. It's only entirely the writer's when nobody else has read it.
Susan Hill
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
Ernest Hemingway
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One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.


Thomas Jefferson
The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.
Will Self
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I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.


Lana Del Rey
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Writing my novel 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North,' I came to conclude that great crimes like the Death Railway did not begin with the first beating or murder on that grim line of horror in 1943.
Richard Flanagan
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You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.
Anthony Minghella
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A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out what a novel is about, and the job becomes one of understanding and deepening or sharpening what is already written. That is finding the theme.
Diane Johnson
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When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family. My father had always identified himself as a writer to my mother when they met. When they met, he was writing this great novel, there was no doubt about it.
Nick Flynn
The advantage of writing from experience is that it often provides you with details that you would never think of yourself, no matter how rich your imagination. And specificity in description is something every writer should strive for.
Christopher Paolini
I always imagined a writer was someone who lived in an attic in Paris, but my mum instilled in me a belief that I could do anything - so I ended up writing my first novel while working nights as a news reporter.
Jojo Moyes
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Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I became so discouraged that I decided to write something that would please me alone - that became my sole criterion. And that was when I wrote 'Forgetting Elena,' the first novel I got published.
Edmund White
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As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production.
Will Self
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I'm calculating, self-sufficient, reserved, and I enjoy being alone.


Melissa Sue Anderson
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I feel like I've got a novel in me somewhere, but that's something... I was just talking to a buddy of mine about it, who's a writer as well, and he's nearly done with his first novel, and it's taken him 11, 12 years to do it. And I can totally understand; it's a long process.
Corey Taylor
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A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel.


Mo Yan
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I can't separate the process of writing from the visual process. I'm speaking only for myself here, but I'm a highly visual writer. In my imagination, when I'm thinking of a scene, I think of every last detail of it: The space, the color palette, the blocking of the actors, the placement of the camera.
Stephen Gaghan
It goes without saying that a good Catholic novel should be good craftsmanship, good writing skills. The creative person must always be engaged in the long labor of perfecting the tools of his art. Yet the work itself need not be explicitly evangelical in its themes and plots.
Michael O'Brien
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I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.


Peter Bichsel
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For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.


Lynn Abbey
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