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"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."
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Personal Development
"I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write."
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Personal Development
"It's not having what you want, it's wanting what you've got."
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Personal Development
"There is so much to do, and I want to continue my efforts."
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Personal Development
"I always write the pieces I want to write."
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Personal Development
"I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it."
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"I want to keep a mysterious side to me. I want to keep a mysterious side to me."
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Personal Development
"What you want, when you want it. As opposed to everything you could ever want, even when you don't."
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Personal Development
"And several galleries - two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment."
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Personal Development
"I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes."
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"I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard."
Work
"I always want to write something better than the last book."
Want
"I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in."
Time
"Continuity is one of the things I like about New England."
Writing
"People say you can't teach writing, but I think that's nonsense."
People
"The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression."
Society
"When I select a topic, it's usually a commitment of two to three years of my life."
Life
"Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time."
Time
"I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass."
Writing
"I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read."
Writing
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