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I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself.

About Army Done Her
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Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.

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The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

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I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation.

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I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

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I'm just a guy up on a hill writing.
Guy Hill Just Up
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I have only one bit of advice to the beginning writer: Be sure your novel is read by Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Advice Beginning Bit Hammerstein
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Write your own book instead of reading someone else’s book about success.

Write Won book Reading Success
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Our scribblings are usually not lyrics but whirrings, without colour or resonance, like the tone of an engine-wheel. I believe that the cause lies in the fact that when people write, they forget for the most part to dig deeply into themselves and to feel the whole import and truth of what they are writing.

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Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics.

About Academics Among Dead
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It's a shameful thing to admit for someone who writes such long books, but I read so slowly that I almost subvocalize.

Admit Almost Books Long
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There were 900 books on Washington when I began writing on him.
Began Books Him Washington
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I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb.

Have written Wicked book Lamb
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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Both Confront Excessive Hysteria
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Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!

Write Wind blows Command words
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But there's nothing that gives me more thrill than when I'm writing and a couplet works. I find the right rhyme, or it's just perfect. There's nothing that exciting.

Exciting Find Gives Just
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I feed on other people's creativity, photographers, artists of every kind. Sometimes a feeling that you get listening to a song can be so powerful. I've wanted to write whole scripts around what I felt just listening to a piece of music. I think music is important, and surrounding your visual field with stimulating things.

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Writing a screenplay, for me, is like juggling. It's like, how many balls can you get in the air at once? All those ideas have to float out there to a certain point, and then they'll crystallize into a pattern.

Air Balls Certain Certain Point
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Of writing well, be sure, the secret lies In wisdom :therefore study to be wise.

Writing well Secret Wisdom Be wise
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I wanted to see if I could write a good book.

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My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.

Christopher Good Graham Graham Greene
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It's so difficult writing about living people.
About Difficult Living People
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I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing.
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I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.
Actor Daughters Musicians Who
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Not having any real direction, one writer would lead me to another.

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There's a tacit belief that actors shouldn't write books, they're sort of allowed to direct movies but there will be a lot of skepticism, and they shouldn't do artwork or music. There are these invisible roadblocks to gain entree to these areas for actors, and you kind of have to crash through those invisible barriers.

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I acted professionally for about eight years, and I was writing all that time but never showed anybody any of it. There just came a point after those eight years when I thought, 'There's a lot I can do with acting - there are a lot of things I can express and do creatively, but there are also limitations.'

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When I started writing after my career as an actor, I knew that that other life in the film industry would be pulled into my writing life and that people would see me not as an author but as an actor starting to write.

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I love writing about my job because I loved it, and it was a particularly interesting one when I was a young man. It was like holidays with pay to me.

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I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically.

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I will write another book if I feel like it.
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When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.

Die Dublin Heart Will
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I got a guitar when I was six and, instead of learning other people's songs, started to try to write my own, even at that young age.

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Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

Committed English Ever Explains
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The most important thing in arithmetic is not the shapes of the numbers but the reality living in them. This living reality has much more meaning for the spiritual world than what lives in reading and writing.

Arithmetic Important ImportantThing Lives
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The subject of the lesson itself should not become more important that the underlying basis. Drawing thus provides first the written forms of letters and then their printed forms. Based on drawing, we build up to reading.

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Esoteric or inner knowledge is no different from other kinds of human knowledge and ability. It is a mystery for the average person only to the extent that writing is a mystery for those who have not yet learned to write.

Ability Average AveragePerson Different
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Everything that's written about me has such a negative taint. It just has a life of its own, like an avalanche, and I don't think there's anything I can do to stop it.

About Anything Avalanche Everything
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Write down five things you love to do. Next, write down five things that you're really good at. Then just try to match them up! Revisit your list once a year to make sure you're on the right track.

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In order to be able to write a good joke, you have to find the truth.

Able Find Good Joke
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I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard just to go bankrupt. I happened to write some jokes about it. I did real well for myself.

About Adult Bankrupt Cheese
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I write abundantly. And then my next step is to struggle to reduce the ornament, to reduce the abundance-to prune the book, in other words, the way one prunes a tree-so it can grow. This is my idea of a book.

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I always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could perform what I wrote.

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To say that I have an undisciplined mind would not be incorrect overall, but it's a little off the mark because I have great discipline when I write - but only for about ten minutes.

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And, you know, I liked writing humor. Well, I should say, I wanted to write seriously, but it kept turning funny.

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When children draw or do rudimentary painting, the whole human being develops an interest in what is being done. This is why we should allow writing to develop from drawing.

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First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.

Effective First First Person How
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Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning.
Cutting Fat Getting Me
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It's the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of being a professional black storyteller - writer, musician, filmmaker.

Being Black Filmmaker Folks
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As a writer, you have to be near people and hear stuff. I'm a hamburger and cheese kind of fellow; I'm not Henry David Thoreau.

Cheese David Fellow Hamburger
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