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This book could scare them. The sex, the violence, the dream sequences and the iconoclasm - I think a lot of people are uncomfortable with that. I understand that. It was very uncomfortable to write some of it Craig Ferguson
Annie Dillard quote: "The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning,..."
The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. Annie Dillard
Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It's never been anything but your religion. J. D. Salinger
Sylvia Plath quote: "Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel. That..."
Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel. That would fix a lot of people. Sylvia Plath
Jhonen Vasquez quote: "I never killed anyone. I avoid going over that edge by writing..."
I never killed anyone. I avoid going over that edge by writing about a guy who has taken a flying leap over it. Jhonen Vasquez
A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke [of the axe] he is writing his signature on the face of the land. Aldo Leopold
I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one’s inner life. And that too is a deed. Etty Hillesum
Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it. Ernest Hemingway
Stephen King quote: "When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite..."
When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite you take out everything that is NOT the story. Stephen King
But once an idea for a novel seizes a writer...well, it’s like an inner fire that at first warms you and makes you feel good but then begins to eat you alive, burn you up from within. You can’t just walk away from the fire; it keeps burning. The only way to put it out is to write the book. Dean Koontz
Shel Silverstein quote: "...I am writing these poems from inside a lion..."
...I am writing these poems from inside a lion... Shel Silverstein
Once it happened, as I lay awake at night, that I suddenly spoke in verses, in verses so beautiful and strange that I did not venture to think of writing them down, and then in the morning they vanished; and yet they lay hidden within me like the hard kernel within an old brittle husk. Herman Hesse
...the lovable is not scarce- it is everywhere. Everything you touch is lovable. There is a hufe surplus, a thousand wonderful things to do, see, feel, taste and smell and a million wonderful people to respond to, talk to, do things for, and delight in, ideas to play with, skills to learn, pictures to paint, songs to sing, grass to mow, poems to write, food to cook and dishes to wash. Each of these is one more occasion to love, out of countless such. Frank Adams
Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive. Robert Wilson Lynd
Quite, quite,' she thought with a little sigh. 'It's always like this in their adventures. To save and be saved. I wish somebody would write a story sometime about the people who warm up the heroes afterward. Tove Jansson

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