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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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I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

Adored Became Because Been
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.

Awhile Bliss Cafe Idea
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No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing.

Business Business Side Couple Extra
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The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

About Day Few Hard
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I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.

Always Basic Decided I Write
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The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

Did Give Good Good Writing
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People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book.

Book Conceive Generally Long
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I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things.

Added Change Couple Eventually
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I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

Always Art Beautiful Compliment
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I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

About Any Belief Believe
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Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.

After Back Because Better
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L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation.

Full Know Levels Many
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I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that I'd be transformed into a happy person, but it doesn't work that way.

Believe Book Certain CertainThings
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With writing a song, I've always felt, right from the start, like I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel. I don't ever feel there's a font of ideas to fall back on.

Always Back Barrel Bottom
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When you're on your own, you have all the self-censorship that everybody has when they try and write. All the little voices that say, 'No, you can't write that, what will they think of that?'

Everybody Little Own Say
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Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.

Beneficial Effects Just Keep
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Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.
Act Away Everybody Myself
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Self-editing is the way I write. Ten verses of a song and it's finished. Then we start playing it and if I see that it's too long, I'll start cutting.

Cutting Finished ISee IWrite
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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 don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.

Anybody Does Happy Know
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Mathematics is written for mathematicians.

Mathematicians Mathematics Written
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I only want to write books and movies about women.
About Books Movies Only
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The whole point of reading is that the writer is speaking to you, and if you're not listening, you're not going to have any fun reading.

Any Fun Going Listening
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I think the moment you're writing about somebody who's not exactly you, then the challenge is all equal.

About Challenge Equal Exactly
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When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.

Write Handful Unruly Strands
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I can't imagine writing a screenplay where I didn't feel deeply connected at some kind of visceral level to the material.

Connected Deeply Feel Imagine
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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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Whether I am writing about a man or woman makes no difference in terms of difficulty.

About Am Difference Difficulty
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Writing is about confidence and wondering what the point of anything is.

About Anything Confidence Point
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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 like when you get sick of your own cooking: I occasionally wish I could write something that didn't come out sounding like me. All writers must experience that.

All Come Cooking Could
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I can't stand it when writers moan about what film-makers might do or have done to their books. There's a very simple answer: don't take the money.

About Answer Books Done
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I write slowly. I can't move on until I've got a paragraph right.

Got Move Move On Paragraph
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There's music every day. I don't think I could write without it. Not that I listen while I'm writing. It's more hearing a piece of music that I want to somehow convert into prose, as a creative inspiration.

Convert Could Creative Day
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I think one of the things I was shocked about was how interested the world is in 'American Idol' and how people, writers, they write about 'Idol' all the time, and I guess I didn't expect that.

About American AmericanIdol Expect
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The one mentality I've always tried to have is that no matter what stage in your career that you are in as a musician or a performer or a songwriter or whatever, there's always more to learn.

Always Career Learn Matter
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.

About Artist Could Day
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I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they happen to be female.

Characters Female Female Characters Happen
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There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

Acting Any Citizen CitizenKane
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I listen to music constantly while writing.

Constantly Listen Music While
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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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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.

Depending Going Hour Hours
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It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

Beatnik Bohemian Certain Elements
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Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.

Amazement Recollection Write Yourself
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I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
Admiration Contempt IWonder Motivation
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Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.
Everything First Ground Ideas
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.

About Beauty Did Famous
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