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I really hate to write.
Hate Really Write
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When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.
Ask Book Ever IWrite
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The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.

Baby Being Between Book
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Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

Books Closest Come Ever
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Alimony is the curse of the writing class.
Alimony Class Curse Writing
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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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Writing is what I do. It's like breathing to me at a certain point, but if I couldn't write, I do like cooking.

Breathing Certain CertainPoint Cooking
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One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there's no confusion about who's to blame: you are.

About Best Blame Confusion
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What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier

Boil down Parenting Autism
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When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans.

Person Responds emotionally Traditional
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All I do when I write scripts is think about food: 'Have I worked long enough to justify a walk to the kitchen?'

About Enough Food IWrite
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Sleepless' was a script that had been written by three or four other writers before me, and it never really worked, but it had this amazing ending on the top of the Empire State Building that just worked, no matter what came before it.

Amazing Been Before Building
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I do believe that when I'm writing music, I get addicted to the music of the concept of what the outcome of the song is, or the passion behind the lyrics.

Addicted Behind Believe Concept
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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

Acres Add Beauty Belongs
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Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.

Art Down Drawing Everyone
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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'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.

About Always Career Come
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I loved the process of writing.

Loved Process Writing
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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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If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer.

Any Better BetterWriter Could
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Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other.

Action Any Characters Come
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The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.
Art Interpretation Play Written
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Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting.

After Drawings Getting Handwriting
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Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.

Being Course Girl Like
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I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.
Book Could Dreamed Having
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I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer.

Could Craft Day Developing
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I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.

Just Lot Prose Published
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Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.

About Alone Early Nights
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I've hung out in the writer's room a few times, but the fact is we've got such a good writing staff, I don't want to get my peanut butter fingerprints on anything.

Anything Butter Fact Few
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In my mind, I was always a comedian who was going to branch into writing.
Always Branch Comedian Going
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I'm always trying out new stuff onstage. That's where I do all my writing.

Always New Onstage Out
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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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Beyond any role that I ever had, really early on as a stand-up, I would see actors decide to try it and they would bomb miserably. What I realized was that stand-up, acting and writing are all their own disciplines.

Acting Actor Any Beyond
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And the writing is still : to you, with you, about you, because of you and for you.
About Because Still Writing
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But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them.

Decline Ever Listened Other
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It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently.

Book Case Differently Read
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My kids are more precious to me than anything. I'm with them all day, and I write all night.

Night Write Day Precious
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I try to write about the stuff that torments us all.
Torments Stuff About Write
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I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.

Least Love Love Stories Stories
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One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.
Else Falling Greatest Pleasures
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If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.

Category Expectations Framework Knowing
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I believe strongly in writing groups such as Romance Writers Of America that offer support, information and networking.

America Believe Groups I Believe
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Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits.

Before Best Different Discard
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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 do indeed write on the road. My laptop goes with me everywhere.

Everywhere Goes Indeed Laptop
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Through the grace of Christ we shall live in obedience to the law of God written upon our hearts. Having the Spirit of Christ, we shall walk even as He walked.

Grace Christ Live God
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I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple.

Actually Create Does Down
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It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.

Also Backward Because Look
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But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.
Color Important Melancholy Nothing
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