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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


#by the time #could #feel #fiction #fiction writers

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


#know #society #western #western society #writers

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


#beginning #clean #crisp #description #far

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


Thomas Perry


#i #interested #not interested #picking #somebody

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


Thomas Perry


#contrary #film #film industry #forces #his

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


Steven Pinker


#clones #commitment #empirical #equality #many

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


#business #commercialized #i #never #north

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


Manuel Puig


#countries #give #hope #instability #intellectuals






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