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When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.

When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.

Ralph Peters

When I'm writing books, something weird happens; and the result is the books contain a large amount of what you could call 'supernaturalism.' As a writer, I find I need that to explain the world I'm writing about.

Salman Rushdie

When I'm writing fiction I'm thinking, God, this is so hard - I have to make all this stuff up! I wish I were writing a nonfiction book where all the facts are laid out and I don't have to be so much at sea.

Douglas Preston

When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar.

When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar.

Denis Johnson

When I'm writing from a character's viewpoint, in essence I become that character; I share their thoughts, I see the world through their eyes and try to feel everything they feel.

When I'm writing from a character's viewpoint, in essence I become that character; I share their thoughts, I see the world through their eyes and try to feel everything they feel.

George R. R. Martin

When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain.

When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain.

Donna Tartt

When I'm writing, I am lost in my book. Except family and close friends, I don't care about what critics, publishers or readers might think.

When I'm writing, I am lost in my book. Except family and close friends, I don't care about what critics, publishers or readers might think.

Amish Tripathi

When I'm writing, I can always play around with tense. I can always make past present. I can always kind of manipulate, and I can always be delusional in a way that's completely self-serving. With film, it's like, the camera can't really lie. It can manipulate to a certain extent.

Jose Antonio Vargas

When I'm writing, I don't feel neurotic. So it's better for the family if I'm working.

When I'm writing, I don't feel neurotic. So it's better for the family if I'm working.

Paul Auster

When I'm writing, I don't read much crime at all - you don't want to get distracted by other people's plots.

When I'm writing, I don't read much crime at all - you don't want to get distracted by other people's plots.

Paula Hawkins

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