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I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.

Audience Book I Write Perceive
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Life is God's novel. Let him write it.
God Him Life Novel
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When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.

Am Boy Call Grown
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We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.

Also Children Only Parents
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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

Basically Good Good Writer Mankind
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The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

Basket Best Best Friend Friend
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I felt a little green, because Shakespeare writes the thought process within the text; it was tricky not to think of what to say and then say it, and instead just deliver the lines.

Because Deliver Felt Green
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I got inspiration to write 'Love Don't Lie' while sermon was being preached on a Sunday morning.

Inspiration Write Love Sermon
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I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.

Convinced Ever Novels Only
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The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.

Deepest Early Early Life Imprint
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The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.

Certainly Dead Feel Idea
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I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.

About Beings Constant Human
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South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.

African Bondage Exactly Expect
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I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.

Dreams Expected I Write Just
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I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

Adored Became Because Been
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The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

About Day Few Hard
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I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.

Always Basic Decided I Write
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People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book.

Book Conceive Generally Long
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I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things.

Added Change Couple Eventually
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I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

Always Art Beautiful Compliment
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I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

About Any Belief Believe
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L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation.

Full Know Levels Many
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I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that I'd be transformed into a happy person, but it doesn't work that way.

Believe Book Certain CertainThings
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When you're on your own, you have all the self-censorship that everybody has when they try and write. All the little voices that say, 'No, you can't write that, what will they think of that?'

Everybody Little Own Say
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Self-editing is the way I write. Ten verses of a song and it's finished. Then we start playing it and if I see that it's too long, I'll start cutting.

Cutting Finished ISee IWrite
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If you took love out of the equation, I wouldn't know what else to write about.
About Else Equation Know
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I consider myself to be first and foremost a comic writer. The way I entertain myself - especially in those long and grim hours in the office - is to write stuff I find funny.

Comic Consider Entertain Find
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I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.

Anybody Does Happy Know
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I only want to write books and movies about women.
About Books Movies Only
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The whole point of reading is that the writer is speaking to you, and if you're not listening, you're not going to have any fun reading.

Any Fun Going Listening
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When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.

Write Handful Unruly Strands
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The easiest thing to write was 'Fever Pitch' because it was a memoir.

Because Easiest Fever Memoir
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If you're 22 and got everything you want, what are you going to write about for the rest of your life?

About Everything Going Got
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It's like when you get sick of your own cooking: I occasionally wish I could write something that didn't come out sounding like me. All writers must experience that.

All Come Cooking Could
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I can't stand it when writers moan about what film-makers might do or have done to their books. There's a very simple answer: don't take the money.

About Answer Books Done
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I write slowly. I can't move on until I've got a paragraph right.

Got Move Move On Paragraph
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There's music every day. I don't think I could write without it. Not that I listen while I'm writing. It's more hearing a piece of music that I want to somehow convert into prose, as a creative inspiration.

Convert Could Creative Day
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I think one of the things I was shocked about was how interested the world is in 'American Idol' and how people, writers, they write about 'Idol' all the time, and I guess I didn't expect that.

About American AmericanIdol Expect
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The one mentality I've always tried to have is that no matter what stage in your career that you are in as a musician or a performer or a songwriter or whatever, there's always more to learn.

Always Career Learn Matter
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.

About Artist Could Day
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I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they happen to be female.

Characters Female Female Characters Happen
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It's hard to write haiku. I write long, silly Indian poems.
Hard I Write Indian Long
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Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.

Amazement Recollection Write Yourself
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I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
Admiration Contempt IWonder Motivation
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Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.
Everything First Ground Ideas
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I really hate to write.
Hate Really Write
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When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.
Ask Book Ever IWrite
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I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.

Actually Complicated Interesting Parts
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I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech

Acceptance Also Care Don'tCare
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Writing is what I do. It's like breathing to me at a certain point, but if I couldn't write, I do like cooking.

Breathing Certain CertainPoint Cooking
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