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Oh, I love labels, as long as they are numerous. I'm an American writer. I'm a Nigerian writer. I'm a Nigerian American writer. I'm an African writer. I'm a Yoruba writer. I'm an African American writer.

African African American American I Love
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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.

About Art Art History Attention
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I am suspicious of writers who say their work is original and influenced by nobody. If it is, it is probably uninteresting. The biggest source of novels is other novels.

Am Biggest I Am Influenced
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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.'

Book Fewer Here Like
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For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with apt words.

About Apt Attempt Else
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I'm not trying to be a poet on Twitter; I'm trying to be aware of the fact that a very simple sentence, well written, can have a very moving effect without that person knowing why. There's a deep genetic part of you that somehow, even without your permission, recognizes good language when it arrives.

Aware Deep Effect Even
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Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

Originality Imitation Judicious Writers
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Art Believe Discovering Writing
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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.

About Just Me Parallel
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You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.

Asleep Awake Dream Intentionally
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When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese.

Able Could Directly Emotions
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I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.
Any Principle Support War
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My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

Books Least Narrative Point
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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.

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.

Any Come Just Plan
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For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I'm still awake. I can continue yesterday's dream today, something you can't normally do in everyday life.

Awake Continue Dream Everyday
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Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).

Cats I Write Just Like
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I'm a writer, not a professional runner. It's fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.

Concentration Fun Helps Me
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Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.

Humans Matches Me Mere
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When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say.

Am Between Could Distinguish
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I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.

Ambition Because Books Good
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I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I could write a realistic book.

Been Book Break Could
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And if the New Testament were a collection of secular writings, their authenticity would generally be regarded as beyond all doubt

Testament Collection Secular Authenticity
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The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.
Acting Again Cable Career
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It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.

Battle Even Folded Great
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Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.

Dog Life Living Only
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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
Blood Life Never Style
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A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.

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.

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.

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.

Song Write Years
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Maybe this is wrong, but I feel like I craft my songs carefully enough that I still find that fifteen years after having written one, it still works for me - I'm not cringing.

After Carefully Craft Enough
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But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that's the center of it, that is it. It's almost like there's something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if you're a songwriter that sings your material.

About Almost Any Back
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I'm really good at writing 'almost hits'.

Almost Good Hits Really
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Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of.

Because IWrite Inside Lot
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I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.

I Never Think Anything
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What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.

What A Writer Do
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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'.

Every Time Write New
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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.

It's Funny Thing People
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For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the best use of. That's probably why I get up so early and have writing time in the quiet dawn hours, when no one needs me.

For Me Writing Always
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I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.

Shy Spend Time Reading
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I can write with absolutely perfect penmanship with my feet. If I broke both my arms, I could still write a girl a love letter using just my toes.

Absolutely Arms Both Broke
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Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing.

Action Actor Aspect Chance
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As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it.

Around Cats Hip Hip Hop
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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!'

All Day Back Because Business
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I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot of tracks, put the track up and let the music talk to me about what it's about.

About Beat Better Could
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Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.

About Believe Checks Ever
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A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
Classic Book Written
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Never compare your beginning to someone else’s ending. You will get discouraged. Your stories were not written side by side, neither was there a track and field event when you all were born.

Never Compare Beginning Someone else Side by side
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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

Myself Poetry Some Understand
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