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On a more practical level, anyone out there who wants to be a writer should clearly recognize that this is a brutal business, where even incredibly talented people sometimes never make a living. If you want to chase such a dream, please have a Plan B in place.

Anyone Brutal Business Chase
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Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader/audience/player to suspend disbelief, to buy into the logic and boundaries of your world, even though those boundaries might include things like dragons and magic. To do that, you need long threads - of history and culture.

Book Boundaries Buy Creating
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Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

Bound Freedom Living More
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All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment.

About All Writers Because Environment
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When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

Beauty Becomes Comfort Enlightenment
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I've never been a very prolific person, so when creativity flows, it flows. I find myself scribbling on little notepads and pieces of loose paper, which results in a very small portion of my writings to ever show up in true form.

Never Been Very Prolific
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My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.

Mother Encouraged Me To
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It's like there's some unwritten rule that if you're mates, you can say what you want to each other, and you don't really get that annoyed about it.

About Annoyed Each Get
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It is certainly very hard to write about sex in English without making it unattractive.
Hard Sex Unattractive.
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The way in which people talk about climate is just so wonky and so abstract and such a boys' club that it makes a lot of women just roll their eyes or feel that they are somehow not qualified. I certainly had to fight that feeling in myself in order to write about it.

About Abstract Boy Certainly
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I am a novelist. I traffic in subtleties, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not knowing what to think. A good novel shouldn't have a point.

Am Knowing Leave Knowing
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It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again.

About Again Book Books
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I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting.
Distracting Find I Write Listen
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I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing.

Any Background Been Biology
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There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.

Afghanistan Even Even Now Form
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I've been told, and I think I recognize it, that there's a cinematic quality to my writing, with a sense of image and place and scene - and, some would say, my tendency to finish my books the way Hollywood finishes its films.

Been Books Cinematic Films
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Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

Books Feel I Feel Readers
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There's nothing easy about writing. It's always difficult. It's always a struggle.

About Always Difficult Easy
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My wife is my in-home editor and reads everything I write.

Editor Everything I Write Reads
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The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems.

Difficulty Directly First How
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All stories I write are compulsive. Anything I've ever written was because I don't have a choice. I write stories because I can't wait to tell it, I can't wait to see how it ends.

Anything Because Choice Compulsive
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Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings.

About Between Child Economic
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Writing for me is largely about rewriting.

About Largely Me Rewriting
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I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word. To be a writer - this may seem trite, I realize - you have to actually write.

Actually Boo Got Many
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You have to write every day, and you have to write whether you feel like it or not.

Day Every Every Day Feel
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Write the story you need to tell and want to read. It's impossible to know what others want, so don't waste time trying to guess.

Guess Impossible Know Need
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I go out, but not too much. When I'm on tour, I just write a lot of music and sleep.

Tour Music Write Out
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in the press, my sex life was something else again. I was Lady Bountiful of the Sheets. Some of the best fiction of the Sixties was written about my amorous adventures with an assortment of lovers who could have only been chosen by a berserk random sampler.

Press Sex life Lady Bountiful Sheets
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I used to have a real passion for writing, but not so much anymore - probably because I do too much of it.

Passion Writing Anymore Much
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I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

Am Because Could Critics
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I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

Money Stopped Were Writing
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Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
Beggars Know Society Western
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Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?

About Ask Critics Does
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.

Also Different Human Metaphor
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I know I'm not the best. I'm not the best singer, I'm not the best songwriter, I'm not the best player.

Best Know Player Singer
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I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this.
Violent Writing Art
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Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.

Chances Each Experience He
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God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
God Writes Gospel Not
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All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.

Story Haunt Writing Themes
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I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.
Mystery Coincidences Emotion Dream
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Today, writers want to impress other writers.

Impress Other Today Want
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The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years.

Fact Writer Experience Root
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I never try to convey a message, I just want to tell a story. Why that story in particular? I have no idea, but I have learned to surrender to the muse. I become obsessed with a theme or with certain stories; they haunt me for years, and finally, I write them.

Convey Story Particular Idea
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I get up every morning early, when the sky is red, and write for 10 hours.
Every morning Early Sky Red
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I've got my own studio, so I sit in my studio writing and if I get a great take, that's the take.

Get Got Great My Own
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Money's really - you know, song writing, yes, there's money to be made and things like that. But really, when you talk about the real money, you talk about touring. No question.

About Know Like Made
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I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.
About Book I Can Point
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Let's face it, the great comedians now that are handicapped in the looks department are tremendous writers.

Comedians Department Face Great
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Be kind and considerate with your criticism. It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.

Good Write Kind Book
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The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of no use. . . .
Writer Culture Country Fine
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