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The good stories are not about the conflict between good and evil but the conflicts between different concepts of good. ............................................................Norman Spinrad

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.
.......................................................... John Steinbeck

Some of us are so made that there is nothing else we can do. We do not write because we want to; we write because we must.
................................................. W. Somerset Maugham

I have never been able to believe that anything had really and thoroughly happened to me until I had written it down.
....................................................... Gerald Brenan

The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fiber of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.
..................................................................Virginia Woolf

I have a distinct feeling about people who think of writing. It is this. If anything can stop them it is probably no great loss.
........................................................... Alexander Woollcott

When you're lucky, you stop being an ego and you start becoming pure windowpane. That's when you know you're doing something right.
............................................................... Allan Gurganus

Before I start writing a novel I read Candide over again so that I may have in the back of my mind the touchstone of that lucidity, grace and wit.
.................................................... W. Somerset Maugham

The best work that I've ever done always has a feeling of having been excavated....I feel like an archaeologist who is digging things up and brushing them off and looking at the carvings on them. Sometimes you get a little pot out of the ground, and that's a short story. Sometimes, you get a bigger pot, which is a novella. Sometimes you can get a building, which is like a novel.
........................................................................Stephen King

Writers... bury important thematic statements in the middle of paragraphs, give important insights to minor characters, and embed wisdom in jokes or seemingly pointless anecdotes. Subtlety lies in the adroitness with which you embed perceptions in the text.
..................................................................... Jerome Stern

Though the whole world, with everyone in it and all its sights and events, is your material, you yourself can only deal with what corresponds to some secret spring in your own nature.
.................................................... W. Somerset Maugham

He who would earn his bread writing books must have the assurance of a duke, the wit of a courtier, and the guts of a burglar.
............................................................Dr. Samuel Johnson

...there were these huge, big gaps in my education - which is not a bad thing for a writer. I think it's a good thing......I think that this neat upbringing, this neat life, is not quite as productive as a sort of mucky messy life and childhood.
.................................................................. William Trevor

The author is the slave of what, for want of a more modest word, I am forced to call his inspiration.
................................................. W. Somerset Maugham

Here's something to think about when confronted by the specter of a so-called alpha male, whether sports hero, captain of industry, movie star or you name it. Even the most macho swingin' dick alpha male on the planet could never have as many descendants as Nietzsche, Shakespeare, or J. D. Salinger.
................................................................... Will Knott

If you can get the truth into a story, then you don't need to be polemical. The reality of the human condition is its own polemic.
................................................................. Edward Saxon

Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.
....................................................... W. Somerset Maugham

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