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Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.
John Irving Interview in Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews (1988)
Ooh, look at me, I’m Dave, I’m writing a book! With all my thoughts in it. La la la!
Dave Eggers A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius (2000)
I was the first one probably in writing to use a nickname, Mickey, and it stuck.
Every single Muslim historian of medieval India lists temples which the rulers he is writing about has destroyed and the mosques he has built instead. (429)
Arun Shourie Indian controversies: Essays on religion in politics (1993)
"I love writing about my job because I loved it, and it was a particularly interesting one when I was a young man. It was like holidays with pay to me."
I am interested in writing into being a Zimbabwe that feels complete, and not one that is only peopled with those of whom I approve
One of the very earliest uses to which the art of writing was put, along with alphabetic exercises and marks of ownership, was sexual insult and obscenity.
A story is a way to say something that can't be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is. ("Writing Short Stories")
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