Hakan Nesser Quotes
While I'm writing, I'm also the first reader, and I want to write a book where I'm excited about what happens next.Hakan Nesser
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When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.
Gabrielle Zevin -
I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.
Valentino Garavani -
I read my books to writing workshops and friends, and I'm often focussed just on keeping them entertained. I never think about marketing at all.
Karen Joy Fowler -
The sad thing is that apparently if you want to become the next Premier or the leader, suddenly you've got to shut down your human side.
Lara Giddings -
Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
E. L. Doctorow -
I'm supporting the charities that I supported during my lifetime, and I want to continue to do that.
Sam Simon
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For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.
Daniel Clowes -
I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
Edie Falco -
Ottawa is a hot spot of Canadian crime writing, with perhaps the greatest concentration of active, involved, published crime writers anywhere.
Vicki Delany -
I can be collaborative, for instance, in situations where I go and study the artist's work before I start writing. Then I can at least try to write towards their style.
Warren Ellis -
Hunger and homelessness aren't things we always want to talk about.
K. A. Applegate -
I have nothing maternal in me, and men want to be mothered a lot of the time.
Karen Armstrong
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I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.
Candace Bushnell -
Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
Irwin Shaw -
I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.
Carl Sandburg -
When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
Calvin Trillin -
As much as I enjoy traveling and playing on stage as an artist, I really find my true sense of purpose in a room writing a song.
Sam Hunt -
It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.
J. A. Konrath
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I can't do a film if I don't start with the writing.
Neil Jordan -
I just want to be known as the greatest everis that too much to ask?
B.J. Penn -
What's great about good writing is that it feels like life, so it's not hard to relate to her circumstances.
Carrie Coon -
When I was a kid, I was so homesick at all times.
Kendall Jenner -
I'm a huge walking oxymoron. People think they're going to get something that's a lot different from what they get.
Chris Zylka -
While I'm writing, I'm also the first reader, and I want to write a book where I'm excited about what happens next.
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