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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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I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.

Dreams Expected I Write Just
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If you took love out of the equation, I wouldn't know what else to write about.
About Else Equation Know
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I consider myself to be first and foremost a comic writer. The way I entertain myself - especially in those long and grim hours in the office - is to write stuff I find funny.

Comic Consider Entertain Find
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I only want to write books and movies about women.
About Books Movies Only
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The easiest thing to write was 'Fever Pitch' because it was a memoir.

Because Easiest Fever Memoir
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If you're 22 and got everything you want, what are you going to write about for the rest of your life?

About Everything Going Got
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It's hard to write haiku. I write long, silly Indian poems.
Hard I Write Indian Long
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I really hate to write.
Hate Really Write
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I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.

Actually Complicated Interesting Parts
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I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech

Acceptance Also Care Don'tCare
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All those who actually live the mysteries of life haven't the time to write, and all those who have the time don't live them! D'you see?

Actually Mysteries Life Live
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I decided to write category romance as I'd recently discovered them, and enjoyed them.

Category Decided Discovered Enjoyed
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I like to write, I like to do stand-up, I like to act.

Act Like Write
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I try to write about the stuff that torments us all.
Torments Stuff About Write
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You don't find time to write. You make time. It's my job.
Find Job Make Time
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I need to write to be happy.

Be Happy Happy Need Write
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Happy music that is genuinely joyful is probably the hardest music to write. I think miserable stuff is more natural to the human condition and maybe more cathartic.

Cathartic Condition Genuinely Happy
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Sometimes I try to concentrate on the story I would like to write, and I realize that what interests me is something else entirely, or, rather, not anything precise but everything that does not fit in what I ought to write.

Anything Concentrate Does Else
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I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while, I get bored and my drawer is overflowing with unfinished short poems.

After Bored Boring Drawer
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I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they actually try to do something that's a little bit more they regard it as pretentious.

Actually Believe Bit Could
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I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.
Anyone How Me No-One
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If you want to write about people, you can make it up. But if you spend time talking to someone and examining what it is you want to write about, you discover a level of detail that you wouldn't have noticed otherwise.

Detail Discover Examining Level
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It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success.

Accepted Adult Anything Authors
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I met Quincy Jones in Seattle. We were kids together... liked each other when we met and have been close ever since. He wasn't writing when we met - in fact, I more or less started him off to write; voicing, harmony, and stuff like that.

Been Close Each Ever
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I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's very difficult to write with the telephone and the doorbell ringing and conversation going on; I'm not that good a writer to write through all that!

About Conversation Difficult Going
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I enjoy looking back on my life. I'm thinking seriously about starting to write about it.
About Back Enjoy Life
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Human rights is something that wasn't hard to be inspired to write about because there have been so many violations of those rights.

About Because Been Hard
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It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.

Cause Culture Job Keep
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Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book.

Book Normally Outline Spend
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It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing.

Around Began College Entire
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I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.

Always Away Child Childish
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To write for PC reasons, because you think you ought to be dealing with this subject, is never going to yield anything that is really going to matter to anyone else. It has to matter to you.

Anyone Anything Because Dealing
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I love to write jokes and that's all I think about.

About ILove IThink Jokes
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I dare you all to write one more thing that you won't say to my face.

Dare Face More Say
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With an education, a girl has the opportunity to write her own future and make informed decisions about her career, body, health, partner and more.

Education Girl Opportunity Own future
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I did not end up as broadly educated as my Cambridge colleagues, but I graduated probably better equipped to write a book on my chosen subject.

Better Book Cambridge Chosen
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Because I have no consistent schedule as an actor, it was difficult to develop one as a writer. Ideally, I'd like to write first thing in the morning, every day. But sometimes I'm called to set before the sun comes up, or I've worked late the night before, or I'm on a plane.

Actor Because Before Consistent
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I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.
I Write Paid Pay Want
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We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what?

Any Bullets Compared Dungeons
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If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

About Advice Give Had
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They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

About Advice Fancy Give
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Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.

About Career Doing Going
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I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels.

Level Like Novels Opera
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For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.

About Anything Felt Kind
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The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

Able Earn He Live
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To live is to war with trolls in heart and soul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.

Live War Heart Soul
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I did not want to write one of those sequels that famous first-book authors get into where everybody says, 'Oh yeah.'

Authors Did Everybody Famous
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My thing is you just have to try to feel young and stay young. Obviously you get a little older, but I still want my music to be young. I don't want to sound like an old dad onstage, so you just have to write music that sounds young.

Dad Feel Get Just
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I will always really work hard to write as much as I can, but I also love sitting back and waiting on those big Nashville songwriters to send me some great songs, too.

Also Always Back Big
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