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I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.

Write Another Breakup Record
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The best compliment I get every year is that a band will write me and say, 'We were just on tour, and we had people coming to our show saying they had never heard us before they heard us on your show.

Heard Show Coming Compliment
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I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.

Good Working Writer Very
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All my big heroes are literary, writers.

All.Literary Heroes Big Writers
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Writers simply have to write, and not worry so much about what people think, because public opinion is such a difficult horse to ride.

Ride Horse Difficult Public
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I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person... to enable people to have a whole picture of me; I have to both write and speak. I view my role as writer and also as oral communicator.

Believe Both Communicator Enable
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Seven-11 is the pulse-beat of America. I think that Bruce Springsteen should do a song about a 7-11 in Asbury Park, New Jersey, but write it in such a way that American's youth can identify and slurp along with the Boss. Hail the Boss! Hail 7-11!

Youth Slurp Boss American's
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If I am constantly working, my relationships fail. So at least now I can have enough time to write a happy record. And be in love and be happy. And then I don't know what I'll do. Get married. Have some kids. Plant a nice vegetable patch.

Constantly Working My Relationship
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I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing.

Don't Write Songs About
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If I were a writer and not a singer in 10 years, I don't know how I'd feel about writing really personal songs and getting someone else to sing them.

If Were Writer Singer
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In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.

Could Evidently Full Hollywood
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The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.
Write Journalism Show Business
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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.
Write Read Book Written
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The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

Cancel Finger Half Having
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I'm one of those people who has to write. If I don't write, I feel itchy and depressed and cranky. So everybody's glad when I write and stop complaining already.

Complaining Cranky Depressed Everybody
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I grew up doing theatre and spent a long time as a playwright. I still think very visually when I write.

Doing Grew I Write Long
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In terms of love, you're not in control and I hate that feeling. I seem to write a lot of sad songs because I'm a very tragic person. But there's always an element of humour at the end.

Hate Write Tragic Person
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I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.

Always Aspiring Come Counsel
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Before I write the first page of a novel, I spend a long time creating detailed backgrounds for my characters. I imagine the experiences that have formed them, what makes them happy, angry, fearful, and what they yearn for.

Angry Backgrounds Before Characters
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I've always been a reader and a writer.

Always Been Reader Writer
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When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.

Because Craft Finish Hard
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Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.

About Chances Easier Find
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Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers discover our characters and allow them to become real.

Alive Allow Also Become
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Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.

Able After Alone Been
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

Ideas Intelligence Kind Really
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Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.

Achievement Any Demanding Everyone
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A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day.

Bad Come Day Feel
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Down How Live Sit
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A writer in someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is.

Writer Someone Spends Years
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Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

Best Composition Goes Luck
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When another writer in another house is not free, no writer is free.

When Another Writer House
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.

Writer Needs Artist Brush
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I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.

Become Festival Inspired Kids
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I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.

Hand Like Long Still
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.

Effects Other Subtle Travel
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I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.

College Come Know Love
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I've met many, many writers who say they would never write about their family, never write about people they did not totally make up. But that is not the composition of my character.

About Character Composition Did
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I think TV is much more the writer's medium and film is about the director and their vision and how you can collaborate with them and see that through to the end. They are so different.

Think Tv More Writer
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

History Main Main Thing Make
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

Declaration Even Polite Politeness
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The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

Ashamed Author Become Best
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The writer must be a participant in the scene... like a film director who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work, and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least the main character.

Action Camera Character Director
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Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

Hero Me Show Tragedy
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You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

Because Say Something Want
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My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.

Afterwards Always Critics Ever
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

Better Could Critic How
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As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

Arise Attaining Become Desire
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

Considered Myself Novels Really
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I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.

Considered Good Happy I Think
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From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.

Best Could Leaf Left
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