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“A story is a narrative description of a character struggling to solve a problem. Nothing more, nothing less.”
~Ben Bova

“When I am all done I shall relax but not until then. My life isn’t very long and I must get one good book written before it ends.”
~John Steinbeck

“A good editor tries to figure out what the writer was trying to do, and helps him or her do it better, rather than trying to change the book into something else entirely. A good editor doesn’t insist, or make changes without permission. Ultimately a writer lives or dies by his words, and he must always have the last word if his work is to retain its integrity.”
~ George R.R. Martin

“Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.”
~Joss Whedon

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship,
stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
~Philip Pullman

“Writers write about what obsesses them. You draw those cards. I lost my mother when I was 14. My daughter died at the age of 6. I lost my faith as a Catholic. When I’m writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.”
~Anne Rice