#writers

Writers have told me more than once that I'm a better interview in defeat than in victory, which is a compliment I am extremely proud of. ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

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I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by the time I see that it's a poem, it's almost written in my head somewhere. ↗

— Sharon Olds

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I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing. ↗

— Mary Oliver

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Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society. ↗

— Octavio Paz

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Less really is more. It's a tendency of beginning writers to want to prove what they're talking about by going too far with description. I think you've got to keep it short, crisp and clean. ↗

— Brad Thor

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All writers are mimics, and I'm not interested in picking up somebody else's style or voice. ↗

— Thomas Perry

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Contrary to what many writers imply about the process, nobody forces a writer to sell his work to the film industry. ↗

— Thomas Perry

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As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones. ↗

— Steven Pinker

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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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