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When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans.

Person Responds emotionally Traditional
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All I do when I write scripts is think about food: 'Have I worked long enough to justify a walk to the kitchen?'

About Enough Food IWrite
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Sleepless' was a script that had been written by three or four other writers before me, and it never really worked, but it had this amazing ending on the top of the Empire State Building that just worked, no matter what came before it.

Amazing Been Before Building
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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

Acres Add Beauty Belongs
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Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.

Art Down Drawing Everyone
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All those who actually live the mysteries of life haven't the time to write, and all those who have the time don't live them! D'you see?

Actually Mysteries Life Live
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I decided to write category romance as I'd recently discovered them, and enjoyed them.

Category Decided Discovered Enjoyed
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If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer.

Any Better BetterWriter Could
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Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other.

Action Any Characters Come
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Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.

Being Course Girl Like
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I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer.

Could Craft Day Developing
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I've hung out in the writer's room a few times, but the fact is we've got such a good writing staff, I don't want to get my peanut butter fingerprints on anything.

Anything Butter Fact Few
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I like to write, I like to do stand-up, I like to act.

Act Like Write
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My kids are more precious to me than anything. I'm with them all day, and I write all night.

Night Write Day Precious
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I try to write about the stuff that torments us all.
Torments Stuff About Write
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I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.

Least Love Love Stories Stories
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If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.

Category Expectations Framework Knowing
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I believe strongly in writing groups such as Romance Writers Of America that offer support, information and networking.

America Believe Groups I Believe
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Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits.

Before Best Different Discard
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You don't find time to write. You make time. It's my job.
Find Job Make Time
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I do indeed write on the road. My laptop goes with me everywhere.

Everywhere Goes Indeed Laptop
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I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple.

Actually Create Does Down
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It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.

Also Backward Because Look
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But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.
Color Important Melancholy Nothing
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I need to write to be happy.

Be Happy Happy Need Write
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I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.

Down Draft First Generally
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I write from a people's point of view. I love people because I understand them. I understand an enemy, I understand a friend, I understand grey areas, and I understand black areas.

Writing People Black Enemy
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Me is what them call illegitimate, that mean say me is a criminal, bomba rassclaat! That's why me go write a song called 'Illegitimate Children.' It took me years to find out I was one.

Call Children Criminal Find
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I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

Being ILove Love Paperwork
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I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.
Every ISee IWrite Inspired
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Happy music that is genuinely joyful is probably the hardest music to write. I think miserable stuff is more natural to the human condition and maybe more cathartic.

Cathartic Condition Genuinely Happy
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

Young men Prove theorems Old men
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A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.

Young writer Allusive Ethereal Reflective
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God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

God Write Comedy Bad actors
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Every time I've had to do journalistic investigations, I've cursed, but later I discovered that it had helped me enormously with writing fiction. It's the one thing that can save me from becoming an academic writer.

Academic Becoming Cursed Discovered
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Now you mustn't think that I don't have any ideas for novels in my head. I've got ideas for ten novels in my head. But with every idea I have, I already foresee the wrong novels I would write, because I also have critical ideas in my head; I've got a full theory of the perfect novel, and that's what stumps me.

Also Any Because Critical
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Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write licking their finger.

Biting Divide Finger Licking
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I write by hand, making many, many corrections. I would say I cross out more than I write. I have to hunt for words when I speak, and I have the same difficulty when writing.

Corrections Cross Difficulty Hand
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I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion.

Because Excellent Find Followed
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Sometimes I try to concentrate on the story I would like to write, and I realize that what interests me is something else entirely, or, rather, not anything precise but everything that does not fit in what I ought to write.

Anything Concentrate Does Else
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I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while, I get bored and my drawer is overflowing with unfinished short poems.

After Bored Boring Drawer
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The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable in others, and consequently in myself.

Author Becoming Consequently Figure
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Turin is a city which entices a writer towards vigor, linearity, style. It encourages logic, and through logic it opens the way towards madness.

City Encourages Logic Madness
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I would very much like to be one of those writers who have something really clear in their head to say, and throughout their life they promote this idea in their works.

Clear Head Idea Life
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I love working with the same actors repeatedly. That happens a lot. It's kind of inevitable, especially if you work with the same writers and directors and you start to form a company of actors. You gravitate towards each other.

Actor Company Directors Each
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I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they actually try to do something that's a little bit more they regard it as pretentious.

Actually Believe Bit Could
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The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.

Accompany Any Dramatic Itself
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I like writing books. I'd rather be at home with my wife. I can write, take a break, come out, have a glass of tea, give my wife a kiss, and go back in and write some more. It's not so bad. I am really lucky.

Writing books At home Wife Glass
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I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track.

Write funny Wife laugh Right track
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I mean, there are some amazing storytelling being done on the small screen right now. That's what so cool about being in television right now. Studios, networks are starting to throw more resources, better writers, more production values... and to be part of that is awesome.

About Amazing Awesome Being
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