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I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

Wanted Write Direct Movies
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People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell.

Cause Feel Good Good News
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I'm a big 'Goosebumps' fan - 'Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes.' My favorites are the pick-your-own-death ones.

Big Fan Favorites Goosebumps
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Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.

Aphorism Blood Cold Dull
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When people write about me, they usually start off with the headline 'World's Greatest Con Man.'

People Write Me Usually
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When I was in Utah there, first learning the kind of music I love, my favorite singer was T. Texas Tyler. So my friend, Norman Ritchie, the traveling teenage sage, started calling me U. Utah Phillips.

Calling Favorite First Friend
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Because them write “Beware Of Dogs” for gate no mean say lion no fit still dey the backyard.

Gate Backyard Dey Beware
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I want to see Nigeria become one of the most industrious countries in the world. I want to see Africa be place where no one writes those articles about wars, disease and famine

Nigeria Africa Wars Disease
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Please take your time. I want you to kill me slowly so I can write my last poem to my wife's heart. They laughed, and took from me only the words dedicated to my wife's heart.

Time Poem Kill Slowly
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I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed

Write Half Saw Believed
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I like writers who can show me worlds I know nothing about, but my favorites are those who create characters or worlds which feel realistic and familiar to me, or who can make me feel inspired.

Writers Show Worlds Favorites
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You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

Amount Certain Need Nerve
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It's hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don't know me.

About Hard Know Me
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I love the grimiest rappers in the world. That's my favorite.

Favorite ILove Love Rappers
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If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.

Never Perfection Waited Word
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How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?

Any Cannot Colors Grade
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Embrace your destiny and write your own story.
Embrace Your Destiny Write Your
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You have inherited the most from yourself, not from your family! The family is only a river through which Soul flows.
Inherited Yourself Family
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There's always ways of motivating yourself to higher levels. Write about it, dream about it. But after that, turn it into action. Don't just dream.

Action After Always Dream
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To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing.

Book Exercise Hard Notes
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Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.

Afford Basically Books Britain
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I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.

Awaiting Flesh I Write Images
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I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.

About Arts Because Business
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I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. And I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.

Simple Blinders Read Book
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The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.

Actually Create Establishment Feel
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The first job of a writer is to be honest.
First First Job Honest Job
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I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold.

Blank Face Books Care
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I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?' You just can't help it; it's the way people are.

Book Character First First Thing
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If you believe the people who love you, you get lazy. And if you believe the people who hate you, you become... maybe intimidated, or whatever the word might be, and you don't write as well.

Become Believe Lazy Hate
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It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person. Then I meet other writers and realize that they're not.

Expectation Kind Meet Myself
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When people write a novel, they want to have that reach and that impact. To get it with a first novel, you can either see it as an albatross or a calling card.

Calling Calling Card Card Either
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I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with.

Book Happy Lame Could
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I write slowly. I actually write quickly, but I throw out so much material.

Actually Material Much Out
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The idea is not enough. And the most annoying thing for me as a writer is that people will come up to me and say, 'Hey, I've got a great idea for a book. I'm not a writer, but I've got a great story.'

Annoying Book Come Enough
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I don't really think about genre. I like to write books that I'd love to read myself.

Books Genre Like Love
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I'm trying to write books that taste like ice cream but have the nutrition of vegetables.

Nutrition Cream Books Taste
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I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.

Audience Book I Write Perceive
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Life is God's novel. Let him write it.
God Him Life Novel
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When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.

Am Boy Call Grown
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We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.

Also Children Only Parents
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Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.

Behaviors Directly Fragile Humanity
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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

Basically Good Good Writer Mankind
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The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

Basket Best Best Friend Friend
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I felt a little green, because Shakespeare writes the thought process within the text; it was tricky not to think of what to say and then say it, and instead just deliver the lines.

Because Deliver Felt Green
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I got inspiration to write 'Love Don't Lie' while sermon was being preached on a Sunday morning.

Inspiration Write Love Sermon
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I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.

Convinced Ever Novels Only
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The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.

Deepest Early Early Life Imprint
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The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.

Certainly Dead Feel Idea
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I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.

About Beings Constant Human
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South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.

African Bondage Exactly Expect
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