Being a writer is understanding how you can love your book, be willing to die for every word, think it’s perfect and yet at the same time wonder how far you’d have to fling your book into the sea so that the tide doesn’t drag it back.
– Meredith Ireland
Tag: being
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Part of being a writer is getting yourself quiet enough and out of the way enough that the character can just speak.
– Callie Khouri
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Being a writer isn’t some grand, mystical state of being, it just means you put words together to amuse people, most of all yourself.
– John Scalzi
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I think that being a novelist means you defend human values by writing novels.
– Alaa Al Aswany