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I write short stories, and I wrote a play.
Play Short Stories Write
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The homosexual community wants me to be gay. The heterosexual community wants me to be straight. Every writer thinks, I'm the journalist who's going to make him talk. I pray for them. I pray that they get a life and stop living mine!

Community Every Gay Get
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'Rather You Than Me' just speaks for my natural instinct to survive, but it's also me being a writer, me being a poet - there's also a beautiful side to 'Rather You Than Me.'

Also Beautiful Being Instinct
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Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.

Before Computer Going Grad
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I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.

Am Doing Each Great
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One day soon, they will write about Us.

Soon One day Write About us
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My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.

Always Bed Been Closest
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In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.
Anything Block Felt Had
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I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

Another Arrange Constraint Design
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Who writes all these scripts in this movie called Nigeria? So predictable.

Who Writes Nigeria Predictable
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You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.

Breeding Ease Easy Hard
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I do see a lot of young artists who write records or sacrifice records, because there are a lot of older artists who are preoccupied; they don't have as much time as they used to to be in the studio.

Artists Because Lot Much
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I respect the Grammys, being a writer. But me being an artist representing hip hop? No

Artist Being Grammys Hip
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I write music with an exclamation point!

Exclamation Music Point Write
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Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

About Almost Any Himself
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A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
Hard He Himself Unable
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If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

Artist Doubt Interest No Interest
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I dare you all to write one more thing that you won't say to my face.

Dare Face More Say
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With an education, a girl has the opportunity to write her own future and make informed decisions about her career, body, health, partner and more.

Education Girl Opportunity Own future
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One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never

About Authority Could Done
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I became a writer in spite of my environments.
Became Environments Spite Writer
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The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon

Biggest BiggestObstacle Changing Necessity
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The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps

Freelance Man Paid Per
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The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.
The trick Writer Staying
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Get a day job, make your money from that, and write to please yourself.
Day job Money Please yourself
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It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.

Art Because Culture Education
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I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are.

About How Intelligent Mind
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I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.

Aunts Believe Books Could
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My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be read by people. That dream came true with the publication of my first novel - and all the rest has been a sweet bonus.

Able At Least One Been Bonus
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Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.

Any Hand Means Mother
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I did not end up as broadly educated as my Cambridge colleagues, but I graduated probably better equipped to write a book on my chosen subject.

Better Book Cambridge Chosen
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I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That's rewarding.

I got Check today Writer Siting
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Because I have no consistent schedule as an actor, it was difficult to develop one as a writer. Ideally, I'd like to write first thing in the morning, every day. But sometimes I'm called to set before the sun comes up, or I've worked late the night before, or I'm on a plane.

Actor Because Before Consistent
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A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.

Because Behind Communicate Driven
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The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.

Being Help Only Professional
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The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others.

Different Even He Him
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I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.
I Write Paid Pay Want
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I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.

Always Considered Explore Minor
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We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what?

Any Bullets Compared Dungeons
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You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes.

Beautiful Beautiful Eyes Because Become
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I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability.

Certain Need Novels Road
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If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.

Beginning Believe Did End
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If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

About Advice Give Had
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Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

Come Ever First Good
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They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

About Advice Fancy Give
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Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
Generation Only Readers Span
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Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.

About Career Doing Going
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I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels.

Level Like Novels Opera
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For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.

About Anything Felt Kind
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Even the 'Negro' shows like 'Amos and Andy' and 'Beulah' are written largely by white writers - the better to preserve the stereotypes, I imagine.

Andy Better Even Imagine
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