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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.

Writer Needs Artist Brush
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I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.

Become Festival Inspired Kids
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I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.

Hand Like Long Still
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.

Effects Other Subtle Travel
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I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.

College Come Know Love
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I've met many, many writers who say they would never write about their family, never write about people they did not totally make up. But that is not the composition of my character.

About Character Composition Did
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I think TV is much more the writer's medium and film is about the director and their vision and how you can collaborate with them and see that through to the end. They are so different.

Think Tv More Writer
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

History Main Main Thing Make
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

Declaration Even Polite Politeness
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The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.

Become Cool Die Fire
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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Accord Encouraged Even Faster
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Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.

Advantage Converts Everything Favorites
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The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

Ashamed Author Become Best
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The writer must be a participant in the scene... like a film director who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work, and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least the main character.

Action Camera Character Director
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Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

Hero Me Show Tragedy
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You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

Because Say Something Want
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My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.

Afterwards Always Critics Ever
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

Better Could Critic How
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As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

Arise Attaining Become Desire
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

Considered Myself Novels Really
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I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.

Considered Good Happy I Think
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From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.

Best Could Leaf Left
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I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

Anybody Better Faster Than
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My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.

Being Big Deal Doing
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In a match between Barca and Madrid, there are no favourites. It does not matter how they have been faring.

Been Between Does Favourites
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In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.

Hope Mood Faith Work
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From a child, I had an inordinate desire for knowledge and especially music, painting, flowers, and the sciences, Algebra being one of my favorite studies.

Algebra Being Child Desire
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I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.

Changed Culture Inherited Last
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The true hypocrite knows what he is doing, and does it to his own advantage. The unconscious hypocrite is simply man in civilization.

True Hypocrite Knows He
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Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're saying when you're being a hypocrite.

Being Blocks Call Hypocrisy
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My favorite subject was recess. Fortunately for me, I had a mother who believed I was smart.

Believed Favorite Fortunately Had
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With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.

About I Write People Want
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I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.

Head Live Never Stories
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Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.

Happens Never Poem Really
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.

Addictive Because Begin Happens
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I tended to write poems about both social and spiritual problems, and some problems one doesn't really want to solve, and so the problems themselves are solved. You certainly don't want to solve problems in poems that haven't been solved in the world.

Certainly Poems Problems Really
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I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers.

Editors Formed Ideals Never
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The boundary between space and the earth is purely arbitrary. And I'll probably always be interested in this planet - it's my favorite.

Arbitrary Between Boundary Earth
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When I write, when I'm going hot, I don't want to write more than four hours in a row. After that, you're pushing it.

After Going Hot Hours
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In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.

Photograph Words Work Writer
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Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.

Away Beautiful Better Feel
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You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.
Typewriter Without Woman You
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Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.

Value Hypocrite Person Least
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Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth.

Actually Depth Favorite Kind
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You can follow your favorite company or organization. You can also mix that in with your family and your social network and talk about all these interests in real time. That's the value, not the brand 'Twitter.' Twitter just provides the venue for it.

About Also Brand Company
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I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.

Decision Find Made More
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Why lie? I'm not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.

Hypocrite Lie Opposite Others
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I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.

Rhythm Songwriter Speech Always
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I think every actor's dream is somebody writes something specifically for them.

Actor Dream Every I Think
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I'm not a very creative person, you know? I'm not really an art person. I'm not a great reader or writer or artist or musician.

Art Artist Creative Creative Person
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