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I can write anywhere. I actually wrote more than I ever did when I had small children. My children were never a hindrance.

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You know how some people write every day at a certain point? I'm not like that. I carry something around for a long time. I weigh the words and the sentences. I weigh the paragraphs. The process is much more meditative for me.

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I write a lot in my head. The revision goes on internally. It's not spontaneous and it doesn't have a schedule.

Goes Head I Write Lot
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People only say I'm angry because I'm black and I'm a woman. But all sorts of people write with strong feeling, the way I do.

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When I write nonfiction, it's always absolutely true. There will be no moment in my nonfiction where I have made something up and have to apologize to the bullying hostess of a talk show.

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I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.
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Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.

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The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

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I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

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I have only one bit of advice to the beginning writer: Be sure your novel is read by Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Advice Beginning Bit Hammerstein
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Write your own book instead of reading someone else’s book about success.

Write Won book Reading Success
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Our scribblings are usually not lyrics but whirrings, without colour or resonance, like the tone of an engine-wheel. I believe that the cause lies in the fact that when people write, they forget for the most part to dig deeply into themselves and to feel the whole import and truth of what they are writing.

Believe Cause Colour Deeply
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It's a shameful thing to admit for someone who writes such long books, but I read so slowly that I almost subvocalize.

Admit Almost Books Long
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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Both Confront Excessive Hysteria
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Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!

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I feed on other people's creativity, photographers, artists of every kind. Sometimes a feeling that you get listening to a song can be so powerful. I've wanted to write whole scripts around what I felt just listening to a piece of music. I think music is important, and surrounding your visual field with stimulating things.

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You know there's nothing a Hill Democrat would rather do than criticize another Democrat. It is their favorite activity. Then they can read about how honorable they are in an Op-Ed piece, how bipartisan.

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I wanted to see if I could write a good book.

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My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.

Christopher Good Graham Graham Greene
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I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing.
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I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.
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Not having any real direction, one writer would lead me to another.

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There's a tacit belief that actors shouldn't write books, they're sort of allowed to direct movies but there will be a lot of skepticism, and they shouldn't do artwork or music. There are these invisible roadblocks to gain entree to these areas for actors, and you kind of have to crash through those invisible barriers.

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When I started writing after my career as an actor, I knew that that other life in the film industry would be pulled into my writing life and that people would see me not as an author but as an actor starting to write.

Actor After Author Career
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My favorite role ever was Alien in 'Spring Breakers'.

Alien Ever Favorite Role
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I will write another book if I feel like it.
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I got a guitar when I was six and, instead of learning other people's songs, started to try to write my own, even at that young age.

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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

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Esoteric or inner knowledge is no different from other kinds of human knowledge and ability. It is a mystery for the average person only to the extent that writing is a mystery for those who have not yet learned to write.

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Write down five things you love to do. Next, write down five things that you're really good at. Then just try to match them up! Revisit your list once a year to make sure you're on the right track.

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In order to be able to write a good joke, you have to find the truth.

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I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard just to go bankrupt. I happened to write some jokes about it. I did real well for myself.

About Adult Bankrupt Cheese
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I write abundantly. And then my next step is to struggle to reduce the ornament, to reduce the abundance-to prune the book, in other words, the way one prunes a tree-so it can grow. This is my idea of a book.

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I always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could perform what I wrote.

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To say that I have an undisciplined mind would not be incorrect overall, but it's a little off the mark because I have great discipline when I write - but only for about ten minutes.

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And, you know, I liked writing humor. Well, I should say, I wanted to write seriously, but it kept turning funny.

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First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.

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It's the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of being a professional black storyteller - writer, musician, filmmaker.

Being Black Filmmaker Folks
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As a writer, you have to be near people and hear stuff. I'm a hamburger and cheese kind of fellow; I'm not Henry David Thoreau.

Cheese David Fellow Hamburger
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I'm not one of those who can listen to music and write. I need the door closed. Windows shut. Facing the wall. No birds tweeting, views of nature, and so forth.

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You can't write just anything. Your story needs structure.

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I don't like a bunch of writers sitting around, puffing smoke, they like this book, he wrote this - tell me a dirty joke, you know. It's just not my style, I've never been that kind of person.

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I type most of my books for the first chapter or two - I use a manual typewriter for the first 50 pages or so - and then I move to the computer. It helps me keep the work lean so I don't end up spending 10 pages describing a leaf.

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Historical novels are hard to do for the general public for commercial writers like myself.

Commercial General General Public Hard
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All of us want to be Superman when we grow up, fighting for truth and justice. That's part of what drives me as a writer.

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I cannot recall any moment of clarity about becoming a writer. I always liked to read. That's what did it.

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As far as making a living, if plumbing earned more, I'd probably do it. At least you can leave the job at home once the tools are put away. A writer works in his mind 24/7.

As Far As Away Earned Far
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One of my favorite things to cook is fondue. I'm Swiss. It's a great social meal.

Cook Favorite FavoriteThings Great
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I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.

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I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.
Being Could Out Pretending
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