"I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do."

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"I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do."

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"When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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Donald Rumsfeld, American Politician

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"I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

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"Tyrants seldom want pretexts."

Edmund Burke, Irish Statesman

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"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

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"Eventually we want to do a puppet musical with turntables in the orchestra pit."

Eric San, Canadian Musician

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Stephen Martin, Australian Politician

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"I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety."

Performance

"Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too."

Poetry

"I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view, radically different from the last."

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"I no longer feel pressure to produce fiction."

Fiction

"Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige."

Money

"I am still interested in the long or serial poem, but have written a few smaller things. I may start sending to journals again in a year or so... that's about it."

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"My self-editing process is intense."

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"When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants."

"Only those who want everything done for them are bored."

"Don't say "the White House wants." Buildings can't want."

"I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me."

"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."

"Tyrants seldom want pretexts."

"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."

"Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do."

"Eventually we want to do a puppet musical with turntables in the orchestra pit."

"I want to grow into the best person I can be."

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"I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety."

"Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too."

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"I think, for me, humour needs to be used like a strong spice - sparingly."

"New York was breaking my concentration and disintegrating my thoughts."

"I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view, radically different from the last."

"I no longer feel pressure to produce fiction."

"Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige."

"I am still interested in the long or serial poem, but have written a few smaller things. I may start sending to journals again in a year or so... that's about it."

"My self-editing process is intense."