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Writing Quotes
"You cannot write if you are not angry."
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"Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor."
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"A word only writes Its night and ridesIts dream."
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"If I choose to write about sheep, it's just because I happened to write about sheep. There is no deep significance."
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"It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself."
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"There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding of what people are really like and what humanity is supposed to mean " hell, I know that."
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"Writers have a well-deserved reputation for being eccentric. Everything you've heard is true."
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"The first book I ever wrote was in fourth grade and it was called 'Billy's Booger.' It was an autobiographical piece about a kid who was really bad at math."
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"I don't think artists are made, I think they're born."
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"I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book."
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"Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing."
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"There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done."
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"In writing I found something I could do at least as well as my peers, if not better."
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"Even when I think I'm writing really young, they say it's too mature."
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"I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing."
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"I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff."
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"It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing."
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"However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned."
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"Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go."
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"I had to live this long, have the experiences I've had, to create what I do. I knew I wanted to write for years, but I had to be ready so I wouldn't blow it. The move to Maine was the final step."
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"I don't know if you've ever tried writing a Doctor Who story, but it's a lot more difficult than it initially appears, especially if you've got more than one assistant."
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"Writing doesn't come easily to me. It gets more and more difficult."
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"It was more exciting to get that first book published, I think."
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"Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best."
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"But it's not just a game of finding literary references."
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"I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book."
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"A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning."
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"I got a book deal without even turning in one shred of a writing sample."
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"I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script."
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"Of course the playing is important but writing and the establishing of what you are going for is prime too."
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"I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat."
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"There is the great creative part of it. The writing is the best part."
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"To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit."
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