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I became a writer in spite of my environments.
Became Environments Spite Writer
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It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous

Because Discover Famous Fifteen
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The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon

Biggest BiggestObstacle Changing Necessity
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The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps

Freelance Man Paid Per
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Other men wear white suits in summer and it doesn't seem to bother them. But my white suit seems to be a little whiter than theirs. I think also that it may have something written on the back of it, although I can't find it when I take the suit off.

Also Although Back Bother
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The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.
The trick Writer Staying
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Get a day job, make your money from that, and write to please yourself.
Day job Money Please yourself
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Writing a novel is like going a great distance to take a small shit.

Novel Great distance
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The only thing worth writing about is people. People. Human beings. Men and women whose individuality must be created, line by line, insight by insight.

Worth writing People Human beings Men
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It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.

Art Because Culture Education
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The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.

Always Apt Beautiful Better
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I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are.

About How Intelligent Mind
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I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.

Aunts Believe Books Could
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My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be read by people. That dream came true with the publication of my first novel - and all the rest has been a sweet bonus.

Able At Least One Been Bonus
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Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.

Any Hand Means Mother
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The secret of writing comedy is to know where it's all going, then get ahead of it.
Ahead Comedy Get Going
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I did not end up as broadly educated as my Cambridge colleagues, but I graduated probably better equipped to write a book on my chosen subject.

Better Book Cambridge Chosen
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The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as for evil, is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected upon.

The power Fictitious writing Seriously
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You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it's a role that's underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in.

Got offered Romantic leads Role
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I actually may do a musical next year... not one that I've written; one that I may star in. Plus my concert and other people's work and all of a sudden you've got a very full life.

Actually may Musical Star in My concert
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I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That's rewarding.

I got Check today Writer Siting
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The thing about good writing is it has a music to it.
About Good Good Writing Music
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Because I have no consistent schedule as an actor, it was difficult to develop one as a writer. Ideally, I'd like to write first thing in the morning, every day. But sometimes I'm called to set before the sun comes up, or I've worked late the night before, or I'm on a plane.

Actor Because Before Consistent
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Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

Conversation Different I Think May
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A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.

Because Behind Communicate Driven
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The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.

Being Help Only Professional
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The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others.

Different Even He Him
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I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.
I Write Paid Pay Want
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I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.

Always Considered Explore Minor
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We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what?

Any Bullets Compared Dungeons
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I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use.

Always Call Certain Dangerous
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You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes.

Beautiful Beautiful Eyes Because Become
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I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability.

Certain Need Novels Road
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I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet.

Applied Back Body End
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If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.

Beginning Believe Did End
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If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

About Advice Give Had
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Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

Come Ever First Good
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Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

Any Costs Dramatic Failure
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They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

About Advice Fancy Give
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For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.
Book Discovering Me More
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I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.

Began Career Isolated Place
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Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
Generation Only Readers Span
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Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.

About Career Doing Going
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I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels.

Level Like Novels Opera
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For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.

About Anything Felt Kind
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Even the 'Negro' shows like 'Amos and Andy' and 'Beulah' are written largely by white writers - the better to preserve the stereotypes, I imagine.

Andy Better Even Imagine
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The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

Able Earn He Live
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Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

Difference Hours Fiction Leaves
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An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

Autobiography Boring Book Life
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A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it
Become Writer Person Absolute
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