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There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.

There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.

Frank Herbert
Real, Writing, Stories
Interview with Willis McNelly, www.sinanvural.com. February 3, 1969.

The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.

Frank Herbert
Writing, Historical, Secret
Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.70, Penguin

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.

Frank Herbert
Writing, Attention, Ifs
Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.9, Penguin

Money to a writer is time to write.

Frank Herbert
Writing

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.

Frank Herbert
Book, Writing, Years
Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.8, Penguin

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.

Frank Herbert
Reading, Writing, Differences
"Shoptalk: learning to write with writers". Book by Donald Morison Murray, 1990.

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