All writers are magpies, right? We're always stealing bits from different places and then weaving them into our little nest.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Writers are magpies by nature, always collecting shiny things, storing them away and looking for connections of things.
I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.
Every character a writer creates has some of themselves in it somewhere.
All writers steal. You might as well steal from the best.
Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just infested with lots of stuff.
The wonderful thing about being a writer is that everything that happens is grist to the mill.
Writers are just like other people, except slightly more obsessed.
Writers often say that characters begin to write themselves, and I never used to believe that. I always thought that was complete hogwash.
Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.
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