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Medicine has an immediate impact, the ability to do good. Writing is such a solitary activity.
Ability Activity Good Good Writing
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I don't know if I want to be a writer.

Know Want A Writer
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Sometimes writing it is a good way to understand something.
Good Good Way Something Sometimes
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I've had great writing teachers and mentors and great success with my first book.
Book First Great Great Success
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I've got to keep on writing. That's non-negotiable. At the same time, one has to look at the world and recognise that writing is not the only thing to be done - I want to have an effect on the world.

Done Effect Got Keep
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Reading 'Search Sweet Country' is like reading a dream, and indeed, at times, it feels like the magical landscapes of writers like the Nigerian Ben Okri or the Mozambican Mia Couto.

Ben Country Dream Feels
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There are skills you pick up on in a clinical environment in terms of how to ask questions, what to look for, how to listen that serve one well when trying to write.

Ask Clinical Environment How
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I've been writing since I was really young.

Been Really Since Writing
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I love playing with language and the rhythm of language - for some reason, this seems so much easier for me to do when I get to make things up than when writing nonfiction.

Easier Get I Love Language
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Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.

Acting Directing Frustrating Heaven
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People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.

Boy Desk Gross Heart
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If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
Read Time Tools Write
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We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

About Any Basic Basic Elements
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I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.
Bed Being Home I Can
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But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

Experiences I Think Life Places
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That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.

Accidental Almost Beginning Career
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I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

Always Blessed Feel Hours
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If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.

Above Around Aware Lot
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You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

Away Been Cannot Done
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And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that's what we're supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react.

Actually Always Because Been
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I have been called 'The American De Maupassant.' Well, I never wrote a filthy word in my life, and I don't like to be compared to a filthy writer.

Have Called America De Maupassant
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I write for myself things that I've gone through.

Gone Myself Things Through
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There has been nothing more impactful on my life and meaningful to me than the introduction of Christ. That, hands down, blows away every joke I've ever written.

Away Been Blows Christ
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I ain't no author, man... my writing skills are not of 'New York Times' best-seller quality, trust and believe it ain't. My vocabulary ain't.

Author Believe Man New
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I think there are so many books out there written on relationships and romance that women are the authors of. How can women know exactly how men think? And there are so many guys out there with relationship books who are just not telling the truth. They have shaded parts.

Authors Books Exactly Guys
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Songwriting has really allowed me to enjoy life and look at it from an objective place.

Allowed Enjoy Enjoy Life Life
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If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.

Being Central Dead Enjoy
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Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

End Every Finally Gets
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For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

Concentrated Form Thinking Writing
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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

Destroy Easily Make Power
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Easily Employ Gain Hard
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I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.

Anymore Fiction Job Just
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I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it.

Church Event Moon Photograph
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Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.

Both Fight Groups Images
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Decided Deliver Find Inspiration
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I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

Abstract Been European Expressionism
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When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
Away Best Drops Else
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.

Gets Interesting Lives Way
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In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

Act Consumption Deeply Endless
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One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.

Beat Deeper Down Integrity
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The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

Affiliation Independent Influence Outside
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There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

Force Live Moral Out
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True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.

Alter Aspire Consciousness Deep
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When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.

Belittle Created Mystery Something
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Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.

Considered Dangerous Jail Repressive
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Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

Sometimes People Write Novels
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I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.

Feel Like Busy Too
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You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's a loss.

Being Discuss Great Loss
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
Employee Just Movies Servant
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Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.'

Accounts Afraid Allowed Asked
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