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The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.

Advances Book Date Enduring
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The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.
Write Journalism Show Business
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If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
Write Read Book Written
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I'm quite adept at writing two or sometimes even three stories at once. So if I get stuck on one story, I switch the next and let my subconscious work on unraveling any plot problems from another story.

Adept Write Story Switch
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The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

Cancel Finger Half Having
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I'm one of those people who has to write. If I don't write, I feel itchy and depressed and cranky. So everybody's glad when I write and stop complaining already.

Complaining Cranky Depressed Everybody
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I grew up doing theatre and spent a long time as a playwright. I still think very visually when I write.

Doing Grew I Write Long
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In terms of love, you're not in control and I hate that feeling. I seem to write a lot of sad songs because I'm a very tragic person. But there's always an element of humour at the end.

Hate Write Tragic Person
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For me it came from the material. It was so well written and brought the opportunity to work with great actors. And of course the opportunity to 'mince about' was an added element that I wanted to take advantage of!

About Actor Added Advantage
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I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.

Always Aspiring Come Counsel
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Before I write the first page of a novel, I spend a long time creating detailed backgrounds for my characters. I imagine the experiences that have formed them, what makes them happy, angry, fearful, and what they yearn for.

Angry Backgrounds Before Characters
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This is not Tolstoy. I don't want to know what critics and professors think of what I'm writing. It might hurt my feelings.

Critics Feelings Hurt Know
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I've always been a reader and a writer.

Always Been Reader Writer
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When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.

Discovering Fantasy Forever Ideas
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It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.

About Book Easy Finishing
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When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.

Because Craft Finish Hard
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Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.

About Chances Easier Find
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Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers discover our characters and allow them to become real.

Alive Allow Also Become
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I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.

Existential Here Map Over
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I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography.

Autobiography Writing
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Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.

Able After Alone Been
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

Ideas Intelligence Kind Really
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The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

Law Randomly Enforced Written
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Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.

Achievement Any Demanding Everyone
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A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day.

Bad Come Day Feel
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When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her. The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.

Man Loves Woman Become
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Down How Live Sit
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A writer in someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is.

Writer Someone Spends Years
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Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

Best Composition Goes Luck
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When another writer in another house is not free, no writer is free.

When Another Writer House
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There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening.

Heart Listening Necessary Never
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A good column is one that sells paper. It doesn't matter how beautifully it is written and how much you admire the author... if it doesn't sell any papers, it's not a good column. It's a terrible yardstick to use, but in the newspaper business, that's the whole thing.

Admire Author Beautifully Business
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.

Writer Needs Artist Brush
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I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.

Ever Given Laughter Line
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I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.

Become Festival Inspired Kids
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I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.

Hand Like Long Still
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Writing has never been that simple for me.

Been Me Never Simple
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Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

About Anything Anything Else Else
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.

Effects Other Subtle Travel
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I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.

College Come Know Love
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I've met many, many writers who say they would never write about their family, never write about people they did not totally make up. But that is not the composition of my character.

About Character Composition Did
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I'm fascinated by the people I grew up with and the mistakes I made - and God, I have screwed up. I like writing about where it all went off course.

Course Fascinated God Grew
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I think TV is much more the writer's medium and film is about the director and their vision and how you can collaborate with them and see that through to the end. They are so different.

Think Tv More Writer
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

History Main Main Thing Make
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

Declaration Even Polite Politeness
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Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

Book Concept Could History
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Nothing anybody's said or written about me ever bothers me, except when it does.

About Anybody Bothers Does
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What made the magazine so popular was, even before I started writing the philosophy, there was a point of view in the magazine.

Before Even Made Magazine
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The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

Ashamed Author Become Best
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The writer must be a participant in the scene... like a film director who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work, and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least the main character.

Action Camera Character Director
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