Frank Herbert Quotes About Writing
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The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.
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You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.
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When I was writing Dune there was no room in my mind for concerns about the book's success or failure. I was concerned only with the writing. Six years of research had preceded the day I sat down to put the story together, and the interweaving of the many plot layers I had planned required a degree of concentration I had never before experienced.
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But, later, coming back and reading what I have produced, I am unable to detect the difference between what came easily and when I had to sit down and say, "Well, now it's writing time and now I'll write.
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Money to a writer is time to write.
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There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.
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