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The problem with the literary hothouse of New York City is that people spend so much time looking in the mirror. They go to parties with people who are just like them, and they write novels about people who are just like them. It's limiting. Anne Fadiman
literary publishers secretly wrote
I write literary, not commercial, fiction - or so I've been told by my publishers who are proud I write literary fiction but secretly wish I wrote commercial. Tawni O'Dell
literary resisted saw time writer
I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun writing kids' books. Ellen Potter
literary reasons writers
One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality. Jeffrey Eugenides
literary work
I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text. Andrea Hirata
literary robust seem serious struck
Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Netherlands has struck me as the most robust literary culture in the world. Paul Theroux
literary quite scientific
Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition. Ian Mcewan
literary people point
I think he is unassailable from a literary point of view, ... On the other hand, there may be some people who think he's too established. Horace Engdahl
literary published terrible
It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering! Siri Hustvedt
reasons specific
When it was put there in 1982, there were very specific reasons why, John Miner
reasons various
The only strategy I know of is to write every day, which I don't always do, because sometimes I just can't, for various reasons that seem out of my control. Nick Flynn
reasons sorts unless
You have to accept that when you don't get the part, it's to do with all sorts of reasons completely beyond your control, unless you know it's because you weren't prepared. Lydia Leonard
reasons stores
One of the reasons why stores did not do better than they did is because there were not enough new designs, not enough new fashions. Kurt Barnard
reasons target
One of the reasons we wanted to target Mississippi is, obviously, we are from there, John Grisham
reasons single staff successful volunteer
One of the reasons we have been so successful as a staff is every single staff person was a volunteer before being a staff member. Debra Conner
reasons teams
There are reasons why teams are 8-9 seeds. Doug Gottlieb
reasons
There are a lot of reasons to be motivated. Drew Brees
reasons support
There are many reasons to support an alternative site, Scott Bullock
writers
If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works. John Dos Passos
writers-and-writing
Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it. Jean Paul
writers
Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained. Aminatta Forna
writers
Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films. Claire Tomalin
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Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words. Arthur Bryant
writers written
In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate. Robert Klein
writers
'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives. Scott Adsit
writers
Everything can be grist for the muse. Sometimes, writers draw on personal experiences. 'Ghoul' was just that. Brian Keene
writers
I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career. Marianne Williamson