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I read a lot of W.E.B. Du Bois, who wrote ‘The Souls of Black Folk.’ Picture Quote #1

For me, writing never gets easier. It’s always hard work. It doesn’t matter how many words you wrote the day before, or how many novels you’ve completed in the last decade: every day you start fresh again with that same blank page, or that same blank screen Picture Quote #1

When I first began writing, and I told people what I wrote, I’d get a blank stare and sometimes a ‘Huh?’ They weren’t sure what young adult literature was. Now everyone knows Picture Quote #1

As soon as the first person wrote about me, the articles became just blatant, all-out lies. I consider it slander. If I cared more, I’d kill them Picture Quote #1

I love cookbooks for completely different reasons. I love ‘The Harry’s Bar Cookbook’ and Marco-Pierre White’s ‘White Heat’ for their feel. For pure learning, Gray Kunz wrote a great cookbook, ‘The Elements of Taste’, published in 2001. The first time I read Charlie Trotter’s, the Chicago chef’s first cookbook, I was blown away Picture Quote #1

It wasn’t until I was 35 or 36, when I wrote ‘Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,’ that I began to get some notoriety, though I only made $5,000 Picture Quote #1

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The first record I bought was a Carl Perkins record, because I saw him at The Festival at Sandpoint, Idaho. I loved Elvis and I found out that he wrote ‘Blue Suede Shoes’... so connecting that experience of going to see him play was pretty awesome. That’s when I realised I wanted to play guitar Picture Quote #1

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man Picture Quote #1

I did 32 years of political cartoons, one every day for six days a week, I wrote and drew every word, every line. That body of work is the one I’m proudest of Picture Quote #1

Don’t look back until you’ve written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceding day. This prevents those cringing feelings, and means that you have a substantial body of work before you get down to the real work which is all in ... the edit Picture Quote #1

Back when the concept of organ transplants qualified as science fiction, novelist Maurice Renard wrote a thriller called ‘Les Mains d’Orlac.’ Call it a bastard offspring of ‘Frankenstein;’ its plot revolved around the old theme of Science Giving Us Stuff We Shouldn’t Have - in this particular case, restoring severed body parts Picture Quote #1

I wrote my first sucio story, as I call them, in 1997. This was always my ‘cheater’s book,’ my book about sucios desgraciados. My plan was to write a book about how people deal with love and loss Picture Quote #1

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I went to school in Gainesville because it was a huge punk and folk town. So I went to class twice a week, and then I went to shows and wrote. I did a lot of music writing before I actually started playing music Picture Quote #1

I love rare books. Not that I own a lot of them, mind you. You couldn’t quite call me a rare-book collector. But I did once work in a rare-books library, and I wrote a novel about a rare book Picture Quote #1

I went out into the world when I was about 22. I wrote books and I illustrated books and did book covers, and I taught tap-dancing, and I was a model in the art school. I had no ability for any of those things, but what else could I do? Picture Quote #1

The poems were the only thing I wrote that was not for everyone else. Then my editors at Penguin, who were also friends and had seen several of them, aggressively urged me to do a book. Editors can be aggressive, especially after drinks. That’s how ‘Beyond This Dark House’ appeared Picture Quote #1

I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a little children’s book and sent it to the editor-in-chief of the children’s division of Simon and Schuster and she asked me to write a little children’s book for a series she was doing Picture Quote #1

One thing that makes me very happy is to have a complicated idea and to feel that I’ve expressed myself clearly. I remember writing the ending to ‘Happier at Home.’ I wrote the entire book to build to that ending ‘now is now,’ and what I had to say was very abstract, and yet I felt satisfied that I managed to say what I wanted to say Picture Quote #1

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When I wrote the first Betsy book, ‘Undead and Unwed,’ I had no idea, none, that it would be a career-defining, genre-defining book, the first of over a dozen in the series, the first of over 70 published books, the first on my road to the best-seller list, the first on my road to being published in 15 countries Picture Quote #1

I wrote a book on grace, and grace is a free gift, but to receive the gift you have to have your hands open. And a lot of people don’t have their hands open, there’s something they’re grasping because there’s a lot of things to grasp in a prosperous country Picture Quote #1

When I was first writing ‘Feed’ - which was the first book I published as Mira - I talked about it very openly on my blog, on Twitter, that I was writing this book, and it wasn’t until after it was sold that I said ‘Mira Grant’ wrote this book. And the reason there was really purely marketing-based Picture Quote #1

Once I was condemned to three months’ absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book Picture Quote #1

I was lucky in getting my first book published; my first book was ‘Bunnicula,’ which I wrote with my late wife Debbie, for the fun of it Picture Quote #1

I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy Picture Quote #1

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I don’t like to have a calm, orderly, quiet place to work. I often compose while driving, compose in my head. It is true that I wrote my little book, ‘The Sounds of Poetry, A Brief Guide,’ almost entirely in airplanes and airport departure lounges Picture Quote #1

My first book was poetry, but I didn’t write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose Picture Quote #1

I didn’t write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself Picture Quote #1

I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead Picture Quote #1

Literary men now routinely tell their readers about their divorces. One literary man who reviews books wrote, in reviewing a study of Ruskin, that he had never read a book by Ruskin but that the study confirmed him in his belief that he didn’t want to read a book by Ruskin. This man very often writes about his family life Picture Quote #1

I was a total music nerd. I grew up on Perry Street in the 80s. My father wrote books about jazz, so I was always at the ‘Village Vanguard.’ Picture Quote #1

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I read a lot of W.E.B. Du Bois, who wrote ‘The Souls of Black Folk.’ (Wrote Quotes) For me, writing never gets easier. It’s always hard work. It doesn’t matter how many words you wrote the day before, or how many novels you’ve completed in the last decade: every day you start fresh again with that same blank page, or that same blank screen. (Wrote Quotes) When I first began writing, and I told people what I wrote, I’d get a blank stare and sometimes a ‘Huh?’ They weren’t sure what young adult literature was. Now everyone knows. (Wrote Quotes) As soon as the first person wrote about me, the articles became just blatant, all-out lies. I consider it slander. If I cared more, I’d kill them. (Wrote Quotes) I love cookbooks for completely different reasons. I love ‘The Harry’s Bar Cookbook’ and Marco-Pierre White’s ‘White Heat’ for their feel. For pure learning, Gray Kunz wrote a great cookbook, ‘The Elements of Taste’, published in 2001. The first time I read Charlie Trotter’s, the Chicago chef’s first cookbook, I was blown away. (Wrote Quotes) It wasn’t until I was 35 or 36, when I wrote ‘Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,’ that I began to get some notoriety, though I only made $5,000. (Wrote Quotes) The first record I bought was a Carl Perkins record, because I saw him at The Festival at Sandpoint, Idaho. I loved Elvis and I found out that he wrote ‘Blue Suede Shoes’... so connecting that experience of going to see him play was pretty awesome. That’s when I realised I wanted to play guitar. (Wrote Quotes) What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man. (Wrote Quotes) I did 32 years of political cartoons, one every day for six days a week, I wrote and drew every word, every line. That body of work is the one I’m proudest of. (Wrote Quotes) Don’t look back until you’ve written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceding day. This prevents those cringing feelings, and means that you have a substantial body of work before you get down to the real work which is all in ... the edit. (Wrote Quotes) Back when the concept of organ transplants qualified as science fiction, novelist Maurice Renard wrote a thriller called ‘Les Mains d’Orlac.’ Call it a bastard offspring of ‘Frankenstein;’ its plot revolved around the old theme of Science Giving Us Stuff We Shouldn’t Have - in this particular case, restoring severed body parts. (Wrote Quotes) I wrote my first sucio story, as I call them, in 1997. This was always my ‘cheater’s book,’ my book about sucios desgraciados. My plan was to write a book about how people deal with love and loss. (Wrote Quotes) I went to school in Gainesville because it was a huge punk and folk town. So I went to class twice a week, and then I went to shows and wrote. I did a lot of music writing before I actually started playing music. (Wrote Quotes) I love rare books. Not that I own a lot of them, mind you. You couldn’t quite call me a rare-book collector. But I did once work in a rare-books library, and I wrote a novel about a rare book. (Wrote Quotes) I went out into the world when I was about 22. I wrote books and I illustrated books and did book covers, and I taught tap-dancing, and I was a model in the art school. I had no ability for any of those things, but what else could I do? (Wrote Quotes) The poems were the only thing I wrote that was not for everyone else. Then my editors at Penguin, who were also friends and had seen several of them, aggressively urged me to do a book. Editors can be aggressive, especially after drinks. That’s how ‘Beyond This Dark House’ appeared. (Wrote Quotes) I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a little children’s book and sent it to the editor-in-chief of the children’s division of Simon and Schuster and she asked me to write a little children’s book for a series she was doing. (Wrote Quotes) One thing that makes me very happy is to have a complicated idea and to feel that I’ve expressed myself clearly. I remember writing the ending to ‘Happier at Home.’ I wrote the entire book to build to that ending ‘now is now,’ and what I had to say was very abstract, and yet I felt satisfied that I managed to say what I wanted to say. (Wrote Quotes) When I wrote the first Betsy book, ‘Undead and Unwed,’ I had no idea, none, that it would be a career-defining, genre-defining book, the first of over a dozen in the series, the first of over 70 published books, the first on my road to the best-seller list, the first on my road to being published in 15 countries. (Wrote Quotes) I wrote a book on grace, and grace is a free gift, but to receive the gift you have to have your hands open. And a lot of people don’t have their hands open, there’s something they’re grasping because there’s a lot of things to grasp in a prosperous country. (Wrote Quotes) When I was first writing ‘Feed’ - which was the first book I published as Mira - I talked about it very openly on my blog, on Twitter, that I was writing this book, and it wasn’t until after it was sold that I said ‘Mira Grant’ wrote this book. And the reason there was really purely marketing-based. (Wrote Quotes) Once I was condemned to three months’ absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book. (Wrote Quotes) I was lucky in getting my first book published; my first book was ‘Bunnicula,’ which I wrote with my late wife Debbie, for the fun of it. (Wrote Quotes) I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy. (Wrote Quotes) I don’t like to have a calm, orderly, quiet place to work. I often compose while driving, compose in my head. It is true that I wrote my little book, ‘The Sounds of Poetry, A Brief Guide,’ almost entirely in airplanes and airport departure lounges. (Wrote Quotes) My first book was poetry, but I didn’t write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose. (Wrote Quotes) I didn’t write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself. (Wrote Quotes) I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead. (Wrote Quotes) Literary men now routinely tell their readers about their divorces. One literary man who reviews books wrote, in reviewing a study of Ruskin, that he had never read a book by Ruskin but that the study confirmed him in his belief that he didn’t want to read a book by Ruskin. This man very often writes about his family life. (Wrote Quotes) I was a total music nerd. I grew up on Perry Street in the 80s. My father wrote books about jazz, so I was always at the ‘Village Vanguard.’ (Wrote Quotes)

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