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When I write, I have always tried to be on the side of the weak. The side of the powerful is not literature's side.

When I write, I have always tried to be on the side of the weak. The side of the powerful is not literature's side.

Elfriede Jelinek

When I write, I imagine places more than people.

When I write, I imagine places more than people.

Paula Hawkins

When I write, I imagine scenes. I write things down. I take photographs. I do some casting. I rewrite. It's a permanent making or remaking.

When I write, I imagine scenes. I write things down. I take photographs. I do some casting. I rewrite. It's a permanent making or remaking.

Pawel Pawlikowski

When I write, I just let my characters go, the way I let life go.

When I write, I just let my characters go, the way I let life go.

Carolyn Chute

When I write, I keep the family audience in mind. I ensure there's no vulgarity, as families are coming into the theatres, and there's no blood and gore because of the kids. There is a set of people who doesn't like my cinema, but there's a bigger group that likes the kind of movies I make.

Rohit Shetty

When I write I know that I'm going to have to produce 40 percent more than I need.

When I write I know that I'm going to have to produce 40 percent more than I need.

George Saunders

When I write, I lose time. I'm happy in a way that I have a hard time finding in real life. The intimacy between my brain and my fingers and my computer... Yet knowing that that intimacy will find an audience... It's very satisfying. It's like having the safety of being alone with the ego reward of being known.

Jill Soloway

When I write, I'm constantly putting myself in the position of someone else as I write using myriad voices; I think that's a life skill all people should learn.

When I write, I'm constantly putting myself in the position of someone else as I write using myriad voices; I think that's a life skill all people should learn.

Joanne Harris

When I write, I'm not trying to be funny. It's the way I look at the world.

When I write, I'm not trying to be funny. It's the way I look at the world.

Billy Collins

When I write, I'm sort of old-fashioned in the sense that I like to write something that I feel I could just perform alone, obviously, because I do that a lot in concert.

When I write, I'm sort of old-fashioned in the sense that I like to write something that I feel I could just perform alone, obviously, because I do that a lot in concert.

Sondre Lerche

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