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Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying things like: 'My brilliance is possibly most apparent in my dazzling short story, "The Cookiepants Hypotenuse."' Or else they get unbearably cutesy: 'My cat Ootsywootums has given me all my best ideas, hasn't oo, squeezums? Connie Willis
J. D. Salinger quote: "Were most of your stars out? Were you busy writing your heart..."
Were most of your stars out? Were you busy writing your heart out? J. D. Salinger
Kanye West quote: "I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it."
I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it. Kanye West
I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry about things that are already in print. Laurell K. Hamilton
Nicholas Sparks quote: "Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing,..."
Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars. Nicholas Sparks
That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played. Jackson Browne
Toni Cade Bambara quote: "It's a dismally lonely business, writing."
It's a dismally lonely business, writing. Toni Cade Bambara
Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up. Joan Didion
Writing is a lonely job. Even if a writer socializes regularly, when he gets down to the real business of his life, it is he and his type writer or word processor. No one else is or can be involved in the matter. Isaac Asimov
Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even when he’s there, he’s not really there. Paul Auster
Ayn Rand quote: "writing is serious business and not for any stray bastard that..."
writing is serious business and not for any stray bastard that wants to try it. Ayn Rand
Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it. Ignore the authors who say ‘Oh, my God, what word? Oh, Jesus Christ…’, you know. Now, to hell with that. It’s not work. If it’s work, stop and do something else. Ray Bradbury
Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand—a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods—or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values. Willa Cather
Writing has always been a serious business for me. I felt it was a moral obligation. A major concern of the time was the absence of the African voice. Being part of that dialogue meant not only sitting at the table but effectively telling the African story from an African perspective - in full earshot of the world. Chinua Achebe
Gore Vidal quote: "Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries..."
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith. Gore Vidal

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