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  • I only can write a book every two years, you know. And I write very fast, but I'm not always writing every day. I needed a contact with different things, like nature, for example. I cannot be in front of a computer trying to tell a story.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Book Quotes , Writing Quotes
  • You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing Quotes , Next Day Quotes
  • Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea. If you think about fiction writing as a spectrum, where at one end of the spectrum in the infrared, are the story tellers, and the people for whom creation of wonderful characters and telling a good story is the most important thing.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Lightman Quotes , Character Quotes , Writing Quotes
  • I don't consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you're writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well, there's an element of that that's either God-given, a talent that you're not necessarily responsible for.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Al Franken Quotes , Art Quotes , Writing Quotes