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I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity.

About Certainly Close Creativity
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My whole thing is, I've got to be as good, as courageous as what's written on the page.

Courageous Good Got Page
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Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

About Detest Except Make
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I thought at 46 years old, I've been removed from the fashion industry for 10 years. I couldn't possibly write a model's book. That's for a 20-year-old. But I could say what I want to say without chastising the industry.

Been Book Could Fashion
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Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

Apparent Being Down Ever
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If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

About Compared Could Friendly
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I enjoy taking jobs that make fun of me - or me as Princess Leia, or me as the writer, or whatever, as some idea.

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

Fiction Her Money Must
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I'm a comic book artist. So I think to myself, what do I like to draw? I like to draw hot chicks, fast cars and cool guys in trench coats. So that's what I write about.

About Artist Book Car
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I've learned this, that haters wanna hate. You could sing a song perfectly, you could write the songs perfectly, and some people are absolutely going to hate you.

Absolutely Could Going Hate
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We write to make sense of it all.

We Write Sense All
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A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out.

Writer Organism Writing Heart
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The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.

Meeting Writer Reader Intimate
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Every author really wants to have letters printed in the paper. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.

Author Really Letters Printed
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“I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.”

Little Pencil Writing God
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I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option.

Think Great Dad Same
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Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.

Mean More Say Than
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Every man's life is a fairy tale, written by God's fingers.

Life Every man fairy God Fingers
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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.

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.

Die People Write Biography
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Writing is like paying myself a formal visit…

Writing Paying Formal Visit
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To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life.
Life Write Literature Pleasant
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I know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and make it without asking anyone's permission.

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

Wanted Write Direct Movies
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No one understands another's grief, no one understands another's joy... My music is the product of my talent and my misery. And that which I have written in my greatest distress is what the world seems to like best.

One Understand Grief Joy
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People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell.

Cause Feel Good Good News
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I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.

About Again Child Harm
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Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.

Aphorism Blood Cold Dull
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The live show allows me to transcend myself, because it's not about me anymore. The writing process is very much about me but then the live show is not. They feel really different.

Show Allow Myself Writing
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When people write about me, they usually start off with the headline 'World's Greatest Con Man.'

People Write Me Usually
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Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.

Brow Every God Hope
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Because them write “Beware Of Dogs” for gate no mean say lion no fit still dey the backyard.

Gate Backyard Dey Beware
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I want to see Nigeria become one of the most industrious countries in the world. I want to see Africa be place where no one writes those articles about wars, disease and famine

Nigeria Africa Wars Disease
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Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.

Consider Proof Written Books
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Please take your time. I want you to kill me slowly so I can write my last poem to my wife's heart. They laughed, and took from me only the words dedicated to my wife's heart.

Time Poem Kill Slowly
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I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed

Write Half Saw Believed
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I like writers who can show me worlds I know nothing about, but my favorites are those who create characters or worlds which feel realistic and familiar to me, or who can make me feel inspired.

Writers Show Worlds Favorites
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A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

Exact Man Reading Ready
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A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

Built Evolved Failures Process
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You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

Amount Certain Need Nerve
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It's hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don't know me.

About Hard Know Me
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It would be so simple to allow children, when tired of sitting, to rise, and when tired of writing, to desist, and then their bones would not be twisted.

Allow Bones Children Rise
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If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.

Never Perfection Waited Word
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When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity.

Age Begins Child Circumstance
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How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?

Any Cannot Colors Grade
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Embrace your destiny and write your own story.
Embrace Your Destiny Write Your
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There's always ways of motivating yourself to higher levels. Write about it, dream about it. But after that, turn it into action. Don't just dream.

Action After Always Dream
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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.

Book Exercise Hard Notes
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Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

Amazed Commit Getting Getting Married
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Cruel of heart, lay down my song. Your reading eyes have done me wrong. Not for you was the pen bitten, And the mind wrung, and the song written.

Cruel Heart Song Reading-eyes
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