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Writers Writing

Roald Dahl

November 25, 2015 by Ann Spivack

“A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.”

~ Roald Dahl

 

“What makes a good children’s writer? The writer must …be a jokey sort of fellow… must like simple tricks and jokes and riddles and other childish things. He must be unconventional and inventive. He must have a really first-class plot. He must know what enthralls children and what bores them.

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Elizabeth Gilbert

November 25, 2015 by Ann Spivack

“I believe that — if you are serious about a life of writing, or about any creative form of expression — you should take on this work like a holy calling. I became a writer the way other people become monks or nuns. I made a vow to writing, very young. I became Bride of Writing.”

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

When an idea comes to Elizabeth Gilbert, she  actually says (to the idea),

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Daphne du Maurier

November 25, 2015 by Ann Spivack

“Every book is a purge. At the end of it one is empty… like a dry shell on the beach, waiting for the tide to come in.”

~ Daphne du Maurier

The photo shows her in Menabilly, her small writing cottage, which is her space and hers alone. Between novels she paints (those are all her paintings on the walls) and most of her work stays in this room, hidden from view.

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