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I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.

Am Bull Comic Dragons
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Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.

About America Better Get
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When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.

Around Get He Lie
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If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novels, find a book you do like.

Book Excuses Find Like
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Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.

Ability Did Hollywood Interest
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I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.

Best Category Earned Emmy
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I have no idea what will come next in my writing life or life in general. I like not knowing, but I know what I want. That doesn't mean it will happen, but I'll give it my best try.

Best Come General Give
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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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I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.
Any Be Because Could
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I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person.

Always Away Book Dream
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People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable.

Asking Country Even Found
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I love comedy and I would write things to myself as an exercise in writing. I didn't do well for years, and I quit. I started to break down why I was afraid and started to look at people I admired, like Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Freddie Prinze, George Carlin and all.

Love comedy Exercise Writing Years
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If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer.

Find Love Read Reading
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The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.

Most honest Men Best Powerful
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He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

Who draws Nobles delights Poetry
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God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other.

God Written Law People
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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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What writing does is to reveal.
Does Reveal Writing
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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 get so happy when I write a joke. It's a very satisfying, liberating feeling.

Feeling Get Happy IWrite
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.

Emerged Eventually Kept Me
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You write about what you know.

About Know Write You
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There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.

After Been Better Day
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I write short stories, and I wrote a play.
Play Short Stories Write
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The homosexual community wants me to be gay. The heterosexual community wants me to be straight. Every writer thinks, I'm the journalist who's going to make him talk. I pray for them. I pray that they get a life and stop living mine!

Community Every Gay Get
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'Rather You Than Me' just speaks for my natural instinct to survive, but it's also me being a writer, me being a poet - there's also a beautiful side to 'Rather You Than Me.'

Also Beautiful Being Instinct
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Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.

Before Computer Going Grad
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I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.

Am Doing Each Great
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One day soon, they will write about Us.

Soon One day Write About us
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The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.

Corrupted Economy Eyes Makes
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My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.

Always Bed Been Closest
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Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously.

Anything Liked Only Place
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In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.
Anything Block Felt Had
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I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

Another Arrange Constraint Design
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Who writes all these scripts in this movie called Nigeria? So predictable.

Who Writes Nigeria Predictable
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My goal is to think of nothing when I'm writing a song because too many influences could sabotage a potentially amazing song.

Amazing Because Could Goal
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You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.

Breeding Ease Easy Hard
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I do see a lot of young artists who write records or sacrifice records, because there are a lot of older artists who are preoccupied; they don't have as much time as they used to to be in the studio.

Artists Because Lot Much
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I respect the Grammys, being a writer. But me being an artist representing hip hop? No

Artist Being Grammys Hip
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I write music with an exclamation point!

Exclamation Music Point Write
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Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

About Almost Any Himself
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A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
Hard He Himself Unable
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If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

Artist Doubt Interest No Interest
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I have begun the 'History of England' by Mr. Hume. It seems to me very interesting, though it is necessary to recollect that it is a Protestant who has written it.

Begun England History Interesting
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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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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

Afterwards Ashamed Hands Necessarily
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One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never

About Authority Could Done
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But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality.

Environment Even Fantastic Feeling
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