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Writers aren't born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears.

Writers aren't born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears.

Julianna Baggott

Writers aren't in competition with one another. It isn't a zero sum game. If you have a good book, a good cover, a good product description, and a low price, you can sell well.

Writers aren't in competition with one another. It isn't a zero sum game. If you have a good book, a good cover, a good product description, and a low price, you can sell well.

J. A. Konrath

Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.

Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.

Anne Rice

Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.

Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.

Peter Carey

Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call.

Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call.

Bill Walsh

Writers begin changing the instant they append 'The End' to a novel. Readers begin changing the moment they encounter that same phrase. And even the novels themselves, through the strange transmutations of time and shifting tastes and mores, exhibit changes as we look backward upon them, acquiring retroactive meanings and tonalities.

Paul Di Filippo

Writers can feel pretty powerless in the big corporate world of publishing, but sometimes our greatest power is the ability to say 'no.'

Writers can feel pretty powerless in the big corporate world of publishing, but sometimes our greatest power is the ability to say 'no.'

Carrie Vaughn

Writers can take offense when someone asks what's real or autobiographical in our work because, to us, that's not what counts. The bits taken from life are tiny scales on the dragon's tail - what about that whole beautiful writhing, fire-breathing dragon?

Michelle Huneven

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.

Jim Harrison

Writers cannot simply have a go, imagining it's easier to produce a story than a novel because fewer words are required. Have a go by all means; be intrepid, but be equipped.

Writers cannot simply have a go, imagining it's easier to produce a story than a novel because fewer words are required. Have a go by all means; be intrepid, but be equipped.

Sarah Hall

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