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"I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this.
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Cormac McCarthy |
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He tells a story, and that's what I like. Does this fella tell a story? He doesn't spend twenty pages describing the colour of the sky?' 'He hasn't so far.' 'Good. Jeffrey Archer never talks about the colour of the sky and I like that in a writer. I'd say Jeffrey Archer has never even looked up at the sky his entire life.' 'Especially now that he's in prison,' I suggested.
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John Boyne |
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Fiction operates through the senses, and I think one reason that people find it so difficult to write stories is that they forget how much time and patience is required to convince through the senses. No reader who doesn't actually experience, who isn't made to feel, the story is going to believe anything the fiction writer merely tells him. The first and most obvious characteristic of fiction is that it deals with reality through what can be seen, heard, smelt, tasted, and touched.
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Flannery O'Connor |
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You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing to create a place where your imagination can wander.
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Anne Lamott |
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He wrote very well in those days, as it happens, much better than he does now. He had absolute convictions, and style is nothing more than the absolute conviction of possessing a style.
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Ricardo Piglia |
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As a naturally shy person, I loved the anonymity of writing before my career took off. I loved how my stories didn't care about my weight. When I started publishing that writing, I loved that, to my readers, what mattered were the words on the page. Through writing, I was, finally, able to gain respect for the content of my character.
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Roxane Gay |
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There is something about a literary work- its vision, its transparence, its metaphoric quality- that makes it very strong magic.
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Roger Shattuck |