“I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.”
Peter de Vries (1910–1993) American editor and novelist
“It's four in the morning, the end of december
I'm writing you now just to see if you're better.”
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I'm writing you now just to see if you're better." by Leonard Cohen?
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Source: Born to Be Wild
Gloria Estefan (1957) Cuban-American singer-songwriter, actress and divorciada
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“You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.”
Gene Wolfe (1931–2019) American science fiction and fantasy writer
“When you write a short story … you had better know the ending first.”
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
The Casebook of the Black Widowers (1980), p. 177
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Context: When you write a short story... you had better know the ending first. The end of a story is only the end to the reader. To the writer, it's the beginning. If you don't know exactly where you're going every minute you're writing, you'll never get there — or anywhere.
Ekta Kapoor (1975) TV and film producer
Talks at Google - 16 Aug 2016, at 14 Min 24 Sec https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wkKtvlGykc <br class="br">From Talks at Google
“The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.”
A Review http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/jenyns.html of Soame Jenyns' A Free Enquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil, published in the first volume of Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces (London, 1774), p. 23
