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The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

Able Earn He Live
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Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

Difference Hours Fiction Leaves
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An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

Autobiography Boring Book Life
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A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it
Become Writer Person Absolute
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A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
Fiction Fear Demands Whether
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To live is to war with trolls in heart and soul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.

Live War Heart Soul
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For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.

All-Around Around Get He
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I did not want to write one of those sequels that famous first-book authors get into where everybody says, 'Oh yeah.'

Authors Did Everybody Famous
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I don't think you should write a book until you tell the absolute truth. You can't do that until you're 85, and I don't want to live that long. I've always prided myself on knowing when to get off, and I hope it works out that way.

Absolute Absolute Truth Always Book
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Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!

Because Born Character Created
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You always have to work to become a better singer, songwriter and performer.

Always Become Better Performer
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With every album, the approach is find the best songs you can find, write the best songs you can write and try to sound better.

Album Approach Best Better
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When you look into the eyes of your people out there that came to see you, that's when it's like, 'Yep, this is what it's all about.' This is why we don't sleep, and this is why we write songs and try to be the best. This moment right here onstage.

About Best Came Eyes
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My thing is you just have to try to feel young and stay young. Obviously you get a little older, but I still want my music to be young. I don't want to sound like an old dad onstage, so you just have to write music that sounds young.

Dad Feel Get Just
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I will always really work hard to write as much as I can, but I also love sitting back and waiting on those big Nashville songwriters to send me some great songs, too.

Also Always Back Big
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People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.

Celebrate Celebrated Mistake More
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I write from my knowledge not my lack, from my strength not my weakness. I am not interested if anyone knows whether or not I am familiar with big words, I am interested in trying to render big ideas in a simple way. I am interested in being understood not admired.

Writing Simple Justice Trying
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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Beethoven Earth Else God
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The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.

About Along Biggest Biggest Influence
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

Affect Difficulty Him Literature
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I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner.

Believe Desire I Think Idioms
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Everyone who knew me as a child, they say they're not surprised that I became a writer because I wrote all the time. I don't remember writing, because I wouldn't have had the tools, but I think what they are saying is that I would pretend I was a writer.

Became Because Child Everyone
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It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small village in New England, but my children are not named Heracles and Persephone, and my daughter doesn't disappear underground every six months and emerge in the spring.

Am Children Composer Daughter
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I didn't know it was possible to be successful as a writer, so I wasn't afraid to fail.
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The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.

However Inevitably Inexperienced Influences
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May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.
Down Feel Help Hoping
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The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.

Also Difficult Himself His
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
I hold Sufficiently justified Love
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I can write anywhere. I actually wrote more than I ever did when I had small children. My children were never a hindrance.

Actually Anywhere Children Did
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You know how some people write every day at a certain point? I'm not like that. I carry something around for a long time. I weigh the words and the sentences. I weigh the paragraphs. The process is much more meditative for me.

Around Carry Certain Certain Point
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I write a lot in my head. The revision goes on internally. It's not spontaneous and it doesn't have a schedule.

Goes Head I Write Lot
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People only say I'm angry because I'm black and I'm a woman. But all sorts of people write with strong feeling, the way I do.

Angry Because Black Feeling
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When I write nonfiction, it's always absolutely true. There will be no moment in my nonfiction where I have made something up and have to apologize to the bullying hostess of a talk show.

Absolutely Always Apologize Bullying
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I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.
Excellent Good Good Writer Very
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Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.

Almost America China Country
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The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

Emily Experience Great Imagination
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I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

Brought Century Complains Disdain
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I have only one bit of advice to the beginning writer: Be sure your novel is read by Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Advice Beginning Bit Hammerstein
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Write your own book instead of reading someone else’s book about success.

Write Won book Reading Success
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Our scribblings are usually not lyrics but whirrings, without colour or resonance, like the tone of an engine-wheel. I believe that the cause lies in the fact that when people write, they forget for the most part to dig deeply into themselves and to feel the whole import and truth of what they are writing.

Believe Cause Colour Deeply
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It's a shameful thing to admit for someone who writes such long books, but I read so slowly that I almost subvocalize.

Admit Almost Books Long
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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Both Confront Excessive Hysteria
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Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!

Write Wind blows Command words
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I feed on other people's creativity, photographers, artists of every kind. Sometimes a feeling that you get listening to a song can be so powerful. I've wanted to write whole scripts around what I felt just listening to a piece of music. I think music is important, and surrounding your visual field with stimulating things.

Around Artists Creativity Every
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I wanted to see if I could write a good book.

Book Could Good Good Book
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My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.

Christopher Good Graham Graham Greene
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I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing.
Found Impossible Me Really
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I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.
Actor Daughters Musicians Who
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Not having any real direction, one writer would lead me to another.

Another Any Direction Having
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There's a tacit belief that actors shouldn't write books, they're sort of allowed to direct movies but there will be a lot of skepticism, and they shouldn't do artwork or music. There are these invisible roadblocks to gain entree to these areas for actors, and you kind of have to crash through those invisible barriers.

Actor Allowed Area Artwork
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