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A lot of journalists are talented enough to write a mystery novel, and I would say that most of the top-end mystery writers actually started out as reporters. But there is more to it than just the writing; there's a learning process, and most journalists aren't willing to do it.

Learning Writing Process Mystery Say

I just hate sitting and writing - I had to do that in school. Plus, I have terrible handwriting.

Hate School Writing Sitting Terrible

My writing routine is: get son off to school and sit down at 8 A.M. I read what I wrote the day before, and then write longhand, into a notebook. I prefer paper and pen because it feels closer to my brain.

Tracy Chevalier

Son Day School Brain Writing Pen

When you're writing about superpowers, you're writing about power. When you're writing about immortals, you're writing about mortality.

Power Writing You Mortality About

I am a bit of a head-in-the-sand person as concerns things happening beyond the walls of my study. And I don't feel particularly guilty about that. I figure that my primary job is producing the very best stories I am capable of writing, and that is what I concentrate upon doing. That is within my control.

Best Job Walls I Am Writing Control

As a writer, I am an intellectual. I believe in the ideals of the Enlightenment, I believe in the written word, in dialogue and in truth. I hate lies more than anything else. Most of the time I react by writing.

Henning Mankell

Truth Time Hate I Am Writing React

I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book.

Writing Book Nothing Matter Next

The books you read as a young person are books that stay with you forever. I think that is the biggest privilege of writing for young people. You feel like you can help shape somebody.

People Writing Think Feel Help You

I'm writing exactly the kinds of books I like to write. And they're the kinds of books I like to read. They're popular commercial fiction. That's what they are.

Writing Write Fiction Kinds Books

I had wanted to write 'The Possessed' as fiction, but everyone told me that no one would read a novel about graduate students. It seems almost uncivilized to tell someone writing a novel, 'No, you have to call this a memoir.'

Me Writing Someone You Write Tell

The entire making of 'Within and Without' was a series of experiments and trial by error. When I started writing, I didn't have a strong idea of what the record was going to end up like.

Writing Strong End Without Within

People, certainly in the U.K., look down on screenwriting as an art form, but I love the discipline of it. Next to the bagginess of novel writing, it almost feels like a martial art.

Love Art Discipline People Writing

For me, writing is really an agony. I feel as if I have a huge, luminous idea that has the potential to be really profound, and then when I set it down on paper, I find the power of the idea has been hugely weakened in the process of transmission.

Alexandra Fuller

Power Me Writing Potential Process

I know I can always draw, but I actually love the writing the most.

Love Writing I Can Know Always Most

My background is in improv and writing.

Writing Improv Background

Fantasy is my genre and my home in the writing world. I consider it the biggest writing room in all literature, where there are literally no boundaries at all.

Home Writing World Literature Room

You don't want to become guilty of plagiarism by letting someone else's words get inadvertently mixed in with your own. If you do feel the need to paste in a block of research while you're writing, be sure to highlight the copied text in a different color so you can go back and remove or rewrite it entirely later.

Words Research Writing Color Someone

I feel my writing comes from a desire to... well, it's motivated by many things, but it's inherently a contradiction in that I'm writing for myself, and it's a very interior journey. On the other hand, I feel that writers do make that interior journey out of a desire to connect.

Journey Myself Writing Feel Desire

What I love is the writing, it's not having written. I like the process of it.

Love Love Is Writing Process Like

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

Ernest Hemingway

Character People Writing Create

When writing on black life, whites have often been unwelcome, usually called upon to give witness or hauled in as the accused.

Darryl Pinckney

Life Writing Black Give Been Often

I am in no way a confident person - except when it comes to what I'm writing. It's just like, this is what I can do, and I have what I think is a pretty strong voice, for better or worse. It's the style I like to write in.

Style I Am Writing Think Better

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

Writing Shame Mean Him IRA Some

I have ADD or something. Even when I am doing something, it's me on the computer, I'm painting and I'm writing music. I have to rotate what I'm doing every 15 minutes.

Music I Am Me Painting Writing Even

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