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Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

Hero Me Show Tragedy
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You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

Because Say Something Want
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My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.

Afterwards Always Critics Ever
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

Better Could Critic How
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As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

Arise Attaining Become Desire
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To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.

Find First First Things Go
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

Considered Myself Novels Really
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I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.

Considered Good Happy I Think
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From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.

Best Could Leaf Left
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People spend a lifetime thinking about how they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.'

About Asked Been Cholera
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I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

Anybody Better Faster Than
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Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.

Actor Applied Basically Everything
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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.

Accumulate Anything Appetite Down
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The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country's dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so much a part of Australia's art, writing, music and culture, both indigenous and non indigenous.

About Art Australia Beauty
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Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.

Any Magic Science Sufficiently
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Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

Doing Else Feel Only
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

Book Cannot Composed Comprehend
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In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.

Hope Mood Faith Work
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With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.

About I Write People Want
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I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.

Beginning Bits And Pieces Dozens Every
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I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.

Head Live Never Stories
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I've got a general callout with the Caribbean world in which I'm interested in helping in any way to get their well-written good stories out to the rest of the world. I am really interested in helping those stories get to a completion and public viewing.

Caribbean Completion General Good
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Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.

Language Music Necessity Never
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Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.

Happens Never Poem Really
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.

Addictive Because Begin Happens
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I tended to write poems about both social and spiritual problems, and some problems one doesn't really want to solve, and so the problems themselves are solved. You certainly don't want to solve problems in poems that haven't been solved in the world.

Certainly Poems Problems Really
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My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.

Memorize Poems Poetry Quite
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I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers.

Editors Formed Ideals Never
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I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.

Desire End Felt Heard
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.

Away Exhausting Far Know
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There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
Begin Beginning Continue End
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

Across Large Letters Miracles
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When I write, when I'm going hot, I don't want to write more than four hours in a row. After that, you're pushing it.

After Going Hot Hours
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Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, 'Don't try.' That fits the writing, too. I don't try; I just type.

Asked Fits Life Once
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In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.

Photograph Words Work Writer
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When I say that basically writing is a hard hustle, I don't mean that it is a bad life, if one can get away with it. It's the miracle of miracles to make a living by the typer.

Bad Basically Hard Hustle
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Sometimes I've called writing a disease. If so, I'm glad that it caught me.

Caught Disease Glad Sometimes
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I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.

Bad Cardboard Chewing Felt
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When everything works best, it's not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It's when you're mad with it, it's when it's stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It's when there's no hope but that.

Best Chose Ears Everything
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Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.

Away Beautiful Better Feel
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You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.
Typewriter Without Woman You
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Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.

Life Literature Those Writing
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A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.

About Handwriting More Perfume
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I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.

Art Baths Bubble Friends
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It's easy to fall into the trap of believing all the hype that's written about you... Who knows? In a couple of years, you might find me in the loony bin!

About Believing Bin Couple
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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Discipline Down First First Step
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When people come to Twitter and they want to express something in the world, the technology fades away. It's them writing a simple message and them knowing that people are going to see it.

Away Come Express Fades
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I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.

Decision Find Made More
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I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.

Rhythm Songwriter Speech Always
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I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started writing seriously, and that was my pacifier all through high school - that and painting.

Always Band High Painting
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