I really want to write a novel. I also want to learn to play the mandolin.

Emma Watson

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I think when I was younger I wasn't really sure if I wanted to act, so I played around with a few different ideas. I wasn't sure whether I might want to write or whether I might want to do something in fashion.

Emma Watson

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If I hadn't done 'Harry Potter,' I would have gone and done years of art. I really do love it, and I'd love to write.

Emma Watson

Art Done Gone Harry

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I could never really imagine myself doing one thing, and I'm pretty sure that I'll end up doing four or five different things. I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I want to just do everything.

Emma Watson

Act Could Different DifferentThings

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It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

Ernest Hemingway

Born Business How Learn

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For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

Ernest Hemingway

Best Better Good Good Luck

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I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

Ernest Hemingway

Because Critics God Like

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Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: 'After a heavy rainfall, poems titled 'Rain' pour in from across the nation.'

Sylvia Plath

Across After Am August

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I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.

R. A. Salvatore

Books Connect Even Excite

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It is certainly very hard to write about sex in English without making it unattractive.

Edmund Wilson

Hard Sex Unattractive.

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The way in which people talk about climate is just so wonky and so abstract and such a boys' club that it makes a lot of women just roll their eyes or feel that they are somehow not qualified. I certainly had to fight that feeling in myself in order to write about it.

Naomi Klein

About Abstract Boy Certainly

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It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again.

Naomi Klein

About Again Book Books

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Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings.

Khaled Hosseini

About Between Child Economic

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You have to write every day, and you have to write whether you feel like it or not.

Khaled Hosseini

Day Every Every Day Feel

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Be kind and considerate with your criticism. It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.

Abraham Cowley

Good Write Kind Book

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The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.

William Faulkner

Artist Listen Critics Reviews

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I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.

Jackie Collins

Baby Books Both Each

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Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.

Jackie Collins

About Know Must Passion

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Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all

Lady Gaga

Am Artist Being Both

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I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.

J. D. Salinger

I Love I Write Just Like

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I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.

J. D. Salinger

Intend Like Myself Necessarily

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I am well-nigh resolv'd to write no more tales but merely to dream when I have a mind to, not stopping to do anything so vulgar as to set down the dream for a boarish Publick.

H. P. Lovecraft

Am Anything Down Dream

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I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.

Neil Gaiman

Began Comedy Did Feel

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I agree that there are some bad apples on Wall Street. I spent about ten years exposing corporate and financial fraud for 'Barron's' magazine and I found a lot to write about.

Ben Stein

About Agree Apples Bad

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But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an actor or even wanted to write sketch comedy. I got into stand-up because I love stand-up.

Demetri Martin

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You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed. They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical.

Haruki Murakami

Artistic Bored Creative Disappointed

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Because I'm an art historian, I have some experience of writing that comes out of close attention. That's what really art history is. You're looking at something very closely, and you try to write in a meticulous way about it.

Teju Cole

About Art Art History Attention

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I'd like to meet fewer people who say 'Oh, I want to write a book, here are 10 pages I've written,' and more 'Oh, I want to write a book, here are 300 pages I've written.'

Teju Cole

Book Fewer Here Like

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I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It's a parallel thing in me.

Haruki Murakami

About Just Me Parallel

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Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

Haruki Murakami

About Because Describe Every

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When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.

Haruki Murakami

Any Come Just Plan

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A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.

Gustave Flaubert

Am I Am Man Needed

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To write well and to speak well is mere vanity if one does not live well.

Swedish Proverb

Live Vanity Speak Well

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Never think, because you cannot write a letter easily, that it is better not to write at all. The most awkward note imaginable is better than none.

Emily Post

Think Write Easily Awkward

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I've been trying to write you a song for years but I'm not sure what to say.

Simi

Song Write Years

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It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.

Barbara Kingsolver

It's Funny Thing People

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It's weird because my parents don't really understand my business. I get fan mail all day long, but if a piece happens to get to their house, they're like, 'Oh, my God, you've got a fan! You have to write them back. You have to do it!'

Idris Elba

All Day Back Because Business

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Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

Carl Sandburg

Birth Child Commanding Give

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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.

Irwin Shaw

Avoid Chance Expensive Fortune

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In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read

Catherine the Great

Position Read Write Talk

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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

Virginia Woolf

Fiction Her Money Must

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I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

Fred Allen

Understand Person Years Write

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If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.

Fernando Pessoa

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To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life.

Fernando Pessoa

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

Francis Ford Coppola

Wanted Write Direct Movies

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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.

Maria Mitchell

Book Exercise Hard Notes

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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.

Irvine Welsh

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

Dan Brown

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

Dan Brown

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

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I really want to write a novel. I also want to learn to play the mandolin.

Emma Watson

I think when I was younger I wasn't really sure if I wanted to act, so I played around with a few different ideas. I wasn't sure whether I might want to write or whether I might want to do something in fashion.

Emma Watson

If I hadn't done 'Harry Potter,' I would have gone and done years of art. I really do love it, and I'd love to write.

Emma Watson

I could never really imagine myself doing one thing, and I'm pretty sure that I'll end up doing four or five different things. I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I want to just do everything.

Emma Watson

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

Ernest Hemingway

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

Ernest Hemingway

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

Ernest Hemingway

Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: 'After a heavy rainfall, poems titled 'Rain' pour in from across the nation.'

Sylvia Plath

I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.

R. A. Salvatore

Edmund Wilson

The way in which people talk about climate is just so wonky and so abstract and such a boys' club that it makes a lot of women just roll their eyes or feel that they are somehow not qualified. I certainly had to fight that feeling in myself in order to write about it.

Naomi Klein

It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again.

Naomi Klein

Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings.

Khaled Hosseini

You have to write every day, and you have to write whether you feel like it or not.

Khaled Hosseini

Be kind and considerate with your criticism. It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.

Abraham Cowley

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.

William Faulkner

I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.

Jackie Collins

Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.

Jackie Collins

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all

Lady Gaga

J. D. Salinger

I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.

J. D. Salinger

I am well-nigh resolv'd to write no more tales but merely to dream when I have a mind to, not stopping to do anything so vulgar as to set down the dream for a boarish Publick.

H. P. Lovecraft

I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.

Neil Gaiman

I agree that there are some bad apples on Wall Street. I spent about ten years exposing corporate and financial fraud for 'Barron's' magazine and I found a lot to write about.

Ben Stein

But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an actor or even wanted to write sketch comedy. I got into stand-up because I love stand-up.

Demetri Martin

You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed. They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical.

Haruki Murakami

Because I'm an art historian, I have some experience of writing that comes out of close attention. That's what really art history is. You're looking at something very closely, and you try to write in a meticulous way about it.

Teju Cole

I'd like to meet fewer people who say 'Oh, I want to write a book, here are 10 pages I've written,' and more 'Oh, I want to write a book, here are 300 pages I've written.'

Teju Cole

I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It's a parallel thing in me.

Haruki Murakami

Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

Haruki Murakami

When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.

Haruki Murakami

A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.

Gustave Flaubert

To write well and to speak well is mere vanity if one does not live well.

Swedish Proverb

Never think, because you cannot write a letter easily, that it is better not to write at all. The most awkward note imaginable is better than none.

Emily Post

I've been trying to write you a song for years but I'm not sure what to say.

Simi

It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.

Barbara Kingsolver

It's weird because my parents don't really understand my business. I get fan mail all day long, but if a piece happens to get to their house, they're like, 'Oh, my God, you've got a fan! You have to write them back. You have to do it!'

Idris Elba

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

Carl Sandburg

You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.