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"I have offices all over the place and I avoid work everywhere. I don't like to write - I like to be finished."

Richard Price, American Writer
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"I have offices all over the place and I avoid work everywhere. I don't like to write - I like to be finished."

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"If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I'm ready to start writing. Then it's a constant spreading out of that five minutes."
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"I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind."
Art, Talent, Artist, Excellence
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"I can never read this book, just like I can never see a movie that I wrote a screenplay for. I can read it and see it physically, but I can't accurately judge it. I'm too close to it. If I read it ten times I'll have ten different reactions."
Reading, Read
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"I do small cameos here and there but nothing that requires more than a paragraph of talking, because I'm just an amateur. The movie is a whole different reality."
Nothing, Reality, Talking
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"I have offices all over the place and I avoid work everywhere. I don't like to write - I like to be finished."
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"I write because I can't imagine not writing."
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"I'd love to be a saxophonist. I don't know why, but I pretend I'm the saxophonist when I listen to music. I have about as much chance playing the sax as I do learning how to fly."
Love, Music, Chance, Learning
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"You can't take a character anywhere they don't expect the character to go. But within those confines is where creativity lies."
Character, Creativity, Lies
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"If you're writing a book that takes place in New York in the moment, you can't not write about 9-11; you can't not integrate it. My main character's view is the Statue of Liberty and the Trade Center. It doesn't have to take over, but it has to be acknowledged."
Character, Liberty, Trade, Writing
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"I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do."
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"Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written."

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"John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded."

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"I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat."

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"My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it."

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"A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes."

Sam Abell, American Photographer
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"Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak."

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American Athlete
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"Your mind is what makes everything else work."

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"A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work."

Karl Abraham, German Psychologist
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