"The research. It is always the best part of writing. And, of course, it is the great excuse to travel."
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"I'm always writing - its what I like to do. But when I'm not writing, I'm reading."
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"I am a great believer that all the primary research has to be done before principle writing begins. I'm a huge advocate of plotting."
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"I am of the generation of writers who can get instant feedback from readers within hours of publication. The fan forum is extraordinary - readers from all over the world coming together to discuss, argue and debate scenes and characters from a novel. They add a layer to the story that I cannot write and yes, I will participate in that conversation and answer questions. After all, they are the people I'm writing for and their enthusiasm and questions really pushes me to raise the bar."
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"Making sure that the geography and timelines work is always the hardest part of writing. But you owe it to the readers to get it right!"
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"I have a huge music library and deliberately choose the piece of music to match the piece I'm writing. So, every book I write has its own "soundtrack.""
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"I would have every man write what he knows and no more."
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"An able reader often discovers in other people's writings perfections beyond those that the author put in or perceived, and lends them richer meanings and aspects."
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"It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence."
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"The vulgar and common esteem is seldom happy in hitting right; and I am much mistaken if, amongst the writings of my time, the worst are not those which have most gained the popular applause."
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"Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery."
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"The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write."
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"It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one."
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"Seneca's virtue shows forth so live and vigorous in his writings, and the defense is so clear there against some of these imputations, as that of his wealth and excessive spending, that I would not believe any testimony to the contrary."
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"But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand."
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"It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth."
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"The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings."
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"I'm not here to write a song for you, I'm here to help you write a song for yourself."
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"I can write hundreds of songs on simple power chords."
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"Your testimony doesn't mean anything if it is not your testimony. So every song that I write it happened at one point in my life or another."
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