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When I was growing up, my idea of a writer was someone like Sven Hassel, that mysterious Danish author who wrote thrillers about men clambering over walls and getting tangled in barbed wire.

~Andrew O'Hagan

Topics: About Author Barbed Wire Danish Getting Growing Growing Up Idea Like Men Mysterious Over Someone Tangled Thrillers Up Walls Who Wire Writer Wrote

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In performance capture roles, it's not a committee of animators that author the role, it's the actor. I think that's a significant thing for people to understand.

~Andy Serkis

Topics: Actor Animators Author Capture Committee People Performance Role Roles Significant Thing Think Understand I Think

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Initially, I wanted to write middle grade. YA scared me: there's a lot of responsibility in being a YA author. It's so important to give that age range the right books that reflect their world and show them themselves.

~Angie Thomas

Topics: Age Author Being Books Give Grade Important Initially Lot Me Middle Range Reflect Responsibility Right Scared Show Them Themselves Wanted World Write Ya

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One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.

~Anish Kapoor

Topics: Art Author Come Contemporary Currents Experience Great Out Seems

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I think that I had read so much fiction that the craft itself sort of sank into me. I didn't read any 'how to' books or attend any popular-fiction-writing classes or have a critique group. For many years into my writing, I didn't even know another author. For me, a lot of reading was the best teacher.

~Ann Maxwell

Topics: Another Any Attend Author Best Books Classes Craft Critique Even Fiction Group Had How Itself Know Lot Many Me Much Read Reading Sort Teacher Think Writing Years I Think

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A novel is, hopefully, the starting point of a conversation, one in which the author engages readers and asks that they see things from a different point of view than they might otherwise.

~Anne Fortier

Topics: Ask Author Conversation Different Hopefully Might Novel Otherwise Point Point Of View Readers See Starting Starting Point Than Things View Which

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I really believe we read differently when we know even the most banal facts of an author's life.

~Anne Michaels

Topics: Author Banal Believe Differently Even Facts Know Life Most Read Really

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A children's author on a soapbox is not a pleasant sight but I have become drawn into issues, slightly unwillingly, relating to young people, literacy and youth justice: just look at the number of young people we have locked up in prison, and the uselessness of it.

~Anthony Horowitz

Topics: Author Become Children Drawn Issues Just Justice Literacy Locked Locked Up Look Number People Pleasant Prison Relating Sight Slightly Up Young Young People Youth

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As a children's author, reviewers are generally very nice to you. I only ever wrote one adult book and received such a kicking for it that I was in trauma for the next six months.

~Anthony Horowitz

Topics: Adult Author Book Children Ever Generally Kicking Months Next Nice Only Received Reviewers Six Trauma Very Wrote You

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A novel can enlarge the empathy and imagination of both its author and its reader, and my experience, that sense of enlargement is most intense when I'm transported beyond the narrow limits of my daily life.

~Anthony Marra

Topics: Author Beyond Both Daily Daily Life Empathy Enlargement Experience Imagination Intense Life Limits Most Narrow Novel Reader Sense

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