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Quotes about writers
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I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath. (Castellaneta Dan)
I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans. (Castellaneta Dan)
I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command. (Castellaneta Dan)
I'm always trolling for trivia. (Castellaneta Dan)
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I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published. (Castellaneta Dan)
I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books. (Castellaneta Dan)
I've thought about writing in other genres, but my imagination just doesn't seem to lead me in other directions. (Castellaneta Dan)
If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer. (Castellaneta Dan)
It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle. (Castellaneta Dan)
It's harder to get stand-alone material published, but it's worth the wait and effort, and then, if you really want to do a Star Trek novel, you can pretty much dictate the terms. (Castellaneta Dan)
My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history. (Castellaneta Dan)
Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured. (Castellaneta Dan)
No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge. (Castellaneta Dan)
Nothing is too obscure for my interest. You just never know when some quirk of science or history is going to prove useful. (Castellaneta Dan)
Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy. (Castellaneta Dan)
Our little writer's colony existed for about three years and it would take nearly that long to share the stories we accumulated. (Castellaneta Dan)
Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment. (Castellaneta Dan)
The actual process of selling my first novel was exciting at the time. I was no longer an apprentice but had become a journeyman. (Castellaneta Dan)
Were I to decide that I didn't want to be a genre writer, or that I wanted to switch genres, I'd be looking at starting over. (Castellaneta Dan)
When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat. (Castellaneta Dan)
When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery. (Castellaneta Dan)
If you see the Sopranos, you're not going to be speaking in the Shakespearean English. (Castellaneta Dan)
I‘m a commercial writer, not an ‘author.’ Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book. (Castellaneta Dan)
If the public likes you, you’re good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day. (Castellaneta Dan)
If you’re a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he’s good, the older he gets, the better he writes. (Castellaneta Dan)
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