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Writing is a way of getting at the things most people would prefer to escape. Writing takes me to the center of life. That's my invitation to my readers as well.
Steven Millhauser
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If I was British, I would vote resolutely 'remain' because it's in the U.K.'s interest.


Emmanuel Macron
The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.
Patrick Modiano
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I freely admit I know nothing about television or writing for the screen.


Charlaine Harris
If significant amounts of time go by without suspenseful action - which is often most powerfully motivated by backstory - the story loses momentum, and readers lose interest.
Leigh Michaels
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I want to go behind the scenes as well as on screen. I think you have to make your own destiny in this world.
Avan Jogia
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In Japan they prefer the realistic style. They like answers and conclusions, but my stories have none. I want to leave them wide open to every possibility. I think my readers understand that openness.
Haruki Murakami
A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting the author take center stage.
Cass Canfield
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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.
R. A. Salvatore
I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.
Nora Roberts
I prefer reading to writing. Reading changes your world view. Writing changes absolutely nothing. Except, of course, when it makes you rich.
Michel Houellebecq
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I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.
Avi
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I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps.
Leon Uris
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To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.
Garry Disher
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Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.


Kate DiCamillo
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I didn't disappear; I started writing songs and worked behind the scenes.


Lesley Gore
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.


Queen Elizabeth II
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I don't have an anti-Hollywood feeling. It's just I'm a New Zealander. I was born in New Zealand, and it's where my house is, and my family goes to school there. My interest is to remain in my homeland and make films. I don't really want to relocate myself to other countries in the world to work.
Peter Jackson
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What I got, unconsciously, from admiring Fred Astaire was that he didn't want what he was doing to look difficult. What was difficult, in my opinion, was making it look so genuine, so effortless. I equally have tried to remain unseen on the screen.
Stanley Donen
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