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When I started writing after my career as an actor, I knew that that other life in the film industry would be pulled into my writing life and that people would see me not as an author but as an actor starting to write.

Actor After Author Career
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I will write another book if I feel like it.
Another Book Feel I Feel
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I got a guitar when I was six and, instead of learning other people's songs, started to try to write my own, even at that young age.

Age Even Got Guitar
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Esoteric or inner knowledge is no different from other kinds of human knowledge and ability. It is a mystery for the average person only to the extent that writing is a mystery for those who have not yet learned to write.

Ability Average AveragePerson Different
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Write down five things you love to do. Next, write down five things that you're really good at. Then just try to match them up! Revisit your list once a year to make sure you're on the right track.

Write down Love Good at Just try
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In order to be able to write a good joke, you have to find the truth.

Able Find Good Joke
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I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard just to go bankrupt. I happened to write some jokes about it. I did real well for myself.

About Adult Bankrupt Cheese
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I write abundantly. And then my next step is to struggle to reduce the ornament, to reduce the abundance-to prune the book, in other words, the way one prunes a tree-so it can grow. This is my idea of a book.

Write abundantly Next step Struggle
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I always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could perform what I wrote.

Always Because Could Perform
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To say that I have an undisciplined mind would not be incorrect overall, but it's a little off the mark because I have great discipline when I write - but only for about ten minutes.

About Because Discipline Great
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And, you know, I liked writing humor. Well, I should say, I wanted to write seriously, but it kept turning funny.

Funny Humor Kept Know
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First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.

Effective First First Person How
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It's the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of being a professional black storyteller - writer, musician, filmmaker.

Being Black Filmmaker Folks
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As a writer, you have to be near people and hear stuff. I'm a hamburger and cheese kind of fellow; I'm not Henry David Thoreau.

Cheese David Fellow Hamburger
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I'm not one of those who can listen to music and write. I need the door closed. Windows shut. Facing the wall. No birds tweeting, views of nature, and so forth.

Birds Closed Door Facing
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You can't write just anything. Your story needs structure.

Anything Just Needs Story
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I don't like a bunch of writers sitting around, puffing smoke, they like this book, he wrote this - tell me a dirty joke, you know. It's just not my style, I've never been that kind of person.

Around Been Book Bunch
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I type most of my books for the first chapter or two - I use a manual typewriter for the first 50 pages or so - and then I move to the computer. It helps me keep the work lean so I don't end up spending 10 pages describing a leaf.

Books Chapter Computer Describing
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Historical novels are hard to do for the general public for commercial writers like myself.

Commercial General General Public Hard
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All of us want to be Superman when we grow up, fighting for truth and justice. That's part of what drives me as a writer.

Drives Fighting Grow Grow Up
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I cannot recall any moment of clarity about becoming a writer. I always liked to read. That's what did it.

About Always Any Becoming
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As far as making a living, if plumbing earned more, I'd probably do it. At least you can leave the job at home once the tools are put away. A writer works in his mind 24/7.

As Far As Away Earned Far
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I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.

Around Guitar Itself Music
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I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.
Being Could Out Pretending
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I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.

First Go Here Lyric
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When you write a song, it may come from a personal space, but it very seldom actually represents you. It comes out of a sort of mood of melancholy, somehow. It's almost theatrical.

Actually Almost Come May
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Though 'Fire and Rain' is very personal, for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience... And that's what happens with me. I write things for personal reasons, and then in some cases it... can be a shared experience.

Cases Commonly Experience Fire
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It's hard to be a celebrity nowadays. It's not about your track record anymore. If you have a great movie, you're good. If not, people are ready to write you off. I think the only ones who are really winning are people like Will Smith. People go, 'Oh, it's Will Smith. I've got to see him, whatever he's in.'

About Anymore Celebrity Go
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A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
Cannot Ease Ill Letter
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It's always like you write a poem when you can't really say what you're trying to say.

Trying Poem Write Really
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I knew that I had to write my memoirs.

Had Knew Memoirs Write
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This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.

Between Contemporary Descendants Differences
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I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.

Coupled Desire Desperate Hostility
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It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.

Bleeding Good Like Looks
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We should write our history books to prove that we did have a past and that it was just as worth writing and learning about as any others. We must do this for the simple reason that a nation and a people without a past is a people without a soul.

Write History book Nation Past
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I never could understand why some writers treat women as helpless. Every woman I know is strong in her own unique way.

Could understand Writers Treat women Helpless
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I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.

Writer Speak Language Different
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I write against violence. I write against fascism. I write against one person dominating another.

Write Against violence Fascism Person
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I firmly believe that the role of a writer is the same, whether his society is underdeveloped, or developing, or developed, or overdeveloped.

Writer Society Believe Underdeveloped
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Our political decisions are only as sound as all voices that make them — the youth, the elderly, businessmen and women, artisans, the clergy, activists, writers and petty traders.

Political decisions Sound Voices Make them
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A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Writer Someone Writing More difficult
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My brain is dull, my sight is foul, I cannot write a verse, or read-- Then, Pallas, take away thine Owl, And let us have a lark instead.

My brain Sight Write Lark instead
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The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

Only medicine Crime Woes Mankind
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If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

Book To read Been written You must
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live

Writing Mode Write I live
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A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye

A writer Spectator Looking at everything Critical eye
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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are

Who write Reflect About life You are
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You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.

Can't blame Writer Characters say
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Every new “pandemic” shows up and rewrites various rules of engagement. Especially in the early days when understanding of the disease is rudimentary and fear and panic are at an all-time high.

Every new Pandemic Rewrites Rules
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I believe what I write to be the truth,every man who is not indifferent to the truth has a weakness for spreading it about.

Believe The truth Every man Indifferent
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