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I'm always writing and learning. It's about growth. So I'm growing as a musician, as a guitarist.

Always Growing Growth Guitarist
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I think every actor's dream is somebody writes something specifically for them.

Actor Dream Every I Think
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I'm not a very creative person, you know? I'm not really an art person. I'm not a great reader or writer or artist or musician.

Art Artist Creative Creative Person
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.

Feel Good Sneeze Spiteful
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A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

Able Commend Him Man
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I'm not afraid to write my feelings in songs.
Afraid Feelings Songs Write
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If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

Empty Go Mad Mind
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I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

Diary Feel I Write Like
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Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.
30Minutes Being End Finished
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I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

Album Because Covers Ever
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Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you're heartbroken, but tomorrow you'll be in love again.

Again Because Capture Down
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We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.

About Books Chapter Country
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Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.

Been Else Matters Nothing
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I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.

About Another Beginning Book
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My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.

America Been Concerned Depicting
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In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.

Able All My Life Anything Been
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I must never write when I do not want to write.

Must Never Want Write
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Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.

Get Go Like Somewhere
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As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

Always Career Ever Feel
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Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

Blood Gets Least Producers
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The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
Important Important Thing Little Most
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Oh, I had an idea for a pilot of my own at the time, and then Carl sent me about eight scripts and simply I threw my idea out the window because the writing was just so good.

Pilot Scripts Simply Time
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We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

Books Create Hard Learn
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.

Write What You Like
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I write 200 columns a year, you know. That means I have to have 200 opinions a year. Sometimes, I don't give a damn one way or the other, but that's my job, so I got to take a side.

Columns Damn Give Got
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I don't know how I do it, but I've written about everything. I've written about my shoes.
About Everything How Know
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I wish one time in my life I could do what other writers do... get me a villa in Spain and go there to write a book.

Book Could Get Go
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I'd like to know what I could do if I really had the time to spend on writing a book, with no columns or shows to do at the same time.

Book Columns Could Had
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You can write the best column in the world on Monday, and it does you absolutely no good on Tuesday. There is no way to win. You just write until you are tired, they fire you, or you die.

Absolutely Best Column Die
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

Alive Day Only Really
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
Cannot Honest Man Separated
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Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
Because Did Found I Write
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If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.

Above Approve Commit Die
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I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'

About Anymore Because Classes
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I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.
Activism Demonstration I Write Personal
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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

Fiction Fiction Writer I Write Novels
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We don't have the experience on how to put papers right. We don't write papers, all we do is approve papers.

Approve Papers Right Write
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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

About Ask Doubt Guide
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From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.

Essays History Influence Lies
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Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking.

After Am Because Birth
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If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

Angry Blood Compose Wish
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When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.

Academic Being Certain Colleagues
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It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world.

About Also Always Clear
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I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.

I Think Myself Novels Professor
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

Apology Books Case Devil
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At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.

Certain Children Decided Had
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When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.

Become Book Even Homer
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For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

Be Real Character Find Heart
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And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting.

About Blogs Care Interesting
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European authors often write books about the rest of the world that profess a vision of shared humanity but fall far short, casting the other as exotic or dangerous.

About Authors Books Casting
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