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There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody.

Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us it is sufficient if what we say can't be disproved or shown to be false.

I met a bunch of comic-book writers at the Metropolis convention and there was such an interesting discussion about the story of 'Supergirl' and trying to get it right. It can be a challenge, because you don't want it to be the same as the Superman story.

Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.

I'm aware of the writers who have previously received the Gold Dagger and I'm honoured to have my name on the same page.

The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.

I still can't quite believe it. Although there was something about the fact that it was a first-time writer, a first-time producer, and a first-time director all at the same time.

Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.

The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.

College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner.

The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief.

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.

It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice.

Studying psychology is fun because you're always looking for the same things I think a writer should be looking for, which is the story behind the story.

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

If I'd had more time or been a better writer, I would have tried to put the same ideas and experiences into a novel. But I didn't so I slapped it up on the Web.

I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.

I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same.

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible, to write anything of length.

I'll make music, whether or not anyone is listening, for the rest of my life. It's a natural form of expression for me, the same way I draw and write and sing.

The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.

To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.

I'm not a great deductive thinker, but I will admit to having competence in a very wide range of things - not being afraid to try to write about baseball, choral music and dinosaurs in the same week and see connections among them.

I think every woman, maybe every man, looks in the mirror and says, 'Oh my God, there's a wrinkle.' So we're all in the same boat.

When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near.

Hopefully I can become the Babe Ruth of the World Wrestling Federation and be the champion at the same time.

A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper.

You guys know the way I play. And what's so ironic is, KG is the same way. I'm looking at him in practice and going, 'Wow, I'm always that guy,' you know?

The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.