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George Martin is an incredible writer.

George Incredible Martin Writer
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Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts. You had a writer, and he wrote a script, and that was your movie. I think that's been watered down a bit lately.

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Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

Fall Get Key Live
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Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.

Answer Anything Everything Love
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I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.
Anyone How Me No-One
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I don't have a computer. A computer's a typewriter. I already have a typewriter.

Computer Typewriter
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I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning.

Funny Girl Meaning Quirky
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I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if that's all you've got, it's just boring. Everything I write, whether it's happy or sad, has a sense of humor to it.

Angst Appreciate Boring Cool
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I write my songs because I've lived them.

Because I Write Lived Songs
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I won a Marshall scholarship to read philosophy at Oxford, and what I most wanted to do was strengthen public intellectual culture - I'd write books and essays to help us figure out who we wanted to be.

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Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent, and you feel those people filling your life.

Life Filling Invent Write
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Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.

Heard Neither Read Seen
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If you want to write about people, you can make it up. But if you spend time talking to someone and examining what it is you want to write about, you discover a level of detail that you wouldn't have noticed otherwise.

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I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.

Always Books Civility Depth
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Generally, I like Indian music because the melodies are usually not too complex, which is how I like music, and that's the way I write music.

Because Complex Generally How
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We were definitely new to the whole music thing. The first album was a real collaborative effort between us, the writers, and the A&R people at Columbia Records. We really worked to find out what our sound was.

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You have to connect with a song, and when you write it, that connection is already there. It's your baby; your passion is in that song.

Baby Connect Connection Passion
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It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success.

Accepted Adult Anything Authors
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I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block.

About Block Characters Could
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I met Quincy Jones in Seattle. We were kids together... liked each other when we met and have been close ever since. He wasn't writing when we met - in fact, I more or less started him off to write; voicing, harmony, and stuff like that.

Been Close Each Ever
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I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's very difficult to write with the telephone and the doorbell ringing and conversation going on; I'm not that good a writer to write through all that!

About Conversation Difficult Going
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I always had to wait until something hit me, and I could write it. But when I would cut an album, to me it represented the time that I spent since the last one. Just the way I was looking at the world.

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I enjoy looking back on my life. I'm thinking seriously about starting to write about it.
About Back Enjoy Life
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Everything that I write is sort of autobiographical, and I don't know that I'm getting better, but I'm certainly running out of time.

Autobiographical Better Certainly Everything
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Human rights is something that wasn't hard to be inspired to write about because there have been so many violations of those rights.

About Because Been Hard
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If it hadn't been for Johnny Cash, I'd probably have been a Nashville songwriter because that's what I had done for almost five years.

Almost Because Been Cash
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Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.

Bar BarMitzvah First Mitzvah
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When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.
Afraid Back Books Feelings
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If you want to be a writer, don't worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many different writers as you can. Soak up the styles.

About Different Many Much
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People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven days a week.

Always Ask Books Days
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It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.

Cause Culture Job Keep
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So many people in their 20s and 30s, on Twitter, say 'Please write something for us,' so I have to listen to them, they're my audience.

Audience Listen Many People
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When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it.

Adult BeReal Buy Detail
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I set a goal for myself everyday when I write - 10 pages a day - and it's much harder because I'm too dumb to turn off my Twitter and everything so it's always on and it's a real distraction. It's a major distraction.

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Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book.

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Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.
Androgynous Bisexual Further Go
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Writers will happen in the best of families

Best Families Happen Will
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I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.

Am Bull Comic Dragons
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If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novels, find a book you do like.

Book Excuses Find Like
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It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing.

Around Began College Entire
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I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.

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I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.
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People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable.

Asking Country Even Found
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I love comedy and I would write things to myself as an exercise in writing. I didn't do well for years, and I quit. I started to break down why I was afraid and started to look at people I admired, like Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Freddie Prinze, George Carlin and all.

Love comedy Exercise Writing Years
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If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer.

Find Love Read Reading
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The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.

Most honest Men Best Powerful
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To write for PC reasons, because you think you ought to be dealing with this subject, is never going to yield anything that is really going to matter to anyone else. It has to matter to you.

Anyone Anything Because Dealing
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I love to write jokes and that's all I think about.

About ILove IThink Jokes
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I get so happy when I write a joke. It's a very satisfying, liberating feeling.

Feeling Get Happy IWrite
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You write about what you know.

About Know Write You
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