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If you are going to write about a culture not your own, you have a heavy burden to do your research, be respectful and get it right.
– Ellen Oh

I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I’m afraid of.
– Joss Whedon

Above all, discard the irrelevant.
– Barbara W. Tuchman

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
– Henry David Thoreau

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
– Bill Moyers

Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.
– Paul Simon

The only way to write a book, I’m fond of telling people, is to actually write a book. That’s how you write a book.
– Anne Enright

I think I’m an okay writer, but a very good storyteller.
– James Patterson

Writing teaches writing.
– John McPhee

I’ll write whatever I damn please, whenever I damn please, and as I damn please.
– William Carlos Williams