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And when you clear away the cobwebs of the description of every job in the world, at the bottom of that job is service. It's service. And I took that ethic and applied it to my writing craft. -- Adriana Trigiani
The advantage of writing from experience is that it often provides you with details that you would never think of yourself, no matter how rich your imagination. And specificity in description is something every writer should strive for. -- Christopher Paolini
After a summer trip to Switzerland, which was rich in experiences, I started writing. In the beginning, I aimed at descriptions of nature and folk life until, as the years passed, the description of man became my chief interest. -- Henrik Pontoppidan
Multicultural is not a description of a category of American writing-it is a definition of all American writing. -- Ishmael Reed
Needless to say, there was no one around remotely fitting the description of a normal person: I was at a writing conference. -- Anne Lamott
The things worth writing about, and the things worth reading about, are the things that feel almost beyond description at the start and are, because of that, frightening. -- Douglas Coupland

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