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I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

Anybody Better Faster Than
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In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.

Hope Mood Faith Work
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With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.

About I Write People Want
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I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.

Head Live Never Stories
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Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.

Happens Never Poem Really
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.

Addictive Because Begin Happens
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I tended to write poems about both social and spiritual problems, and some problems one doesn't really want to solve, and so the problems themselves are solved. You certainly don't want to solve problems in poems that haven't been solved in the world.

Certainly Poems Problems Really
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I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers.

Editors Formed Ideals Never
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When I write, when I'm going hot, I don't want to write more than four hours in a row. After that, you're pushing it.

After Going Hot Hours
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In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.

Photograph Words Work Writer
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Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.

Away Beautiful Better Feel
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You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.
Typewriter Without Woman You
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I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.

Decision Find Made More
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I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.

Rhythm Songwriter Speech Always
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I think every actor's dream is somebody writes something specifically for them.

Actor Dream Every I Think
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I'm not a very creative person, you know? I'm not really an art person. I'm not a great reader or writer or artist or musician.

Art Artist Creative Creative Person
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.

Feel Good Sneeze Spiteful
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A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

Able Commend Him Man
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I'm not afraid to write my feelings in songs.
Afraid Feelings Songs Write
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If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

Empty Go Mad Mind
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I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

Diary Feel I Write Like
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Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.
30Minutes Being End Finished
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Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you're heartbroken, but tomorrow you'll be in love again.

Again Because Capture Down
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We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.

About Books Chapter Country
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I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.

About Another Beginning Book
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I must never write when I do not want to write.

Must Never Want Write
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The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
Important Important Thing Little Most
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We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

Books Create Hard Learn
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.

Write What You Like
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I write 200 columns a year, you know. That means I have to have 200 opinions a year. Sometimes, I don't give a damn one way or the other, but that's my job, so I got to take a side.

Columns Damn Give Got
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I wish one time in my life I could do what other writers do... get me a villa in Spain and go there to write a book.

Book Could Get Go
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You can write the best column in the world on Monday, and it does you absolutely no good on Tuesday. There is no way to win. You just write until you are tired, they fire you, or you die.

Absolutely Best Column Die
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Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
Because Did Found I Write
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I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'

About Anymore Because Classes
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I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.
Activism Demonstration I Write Personal
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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

Fiction Fiction Writer I Write Novels
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We don't have the experience on how to put papers right. We don't write papers, all we do is approve papers.

Approve Papers Right Write
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Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking.

After Am Because Birth
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If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

Angry Blood Compose Wish
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When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.

Academic Being Certain Colleagues
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It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world.

About Also Always Clear
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I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.

I Think Myself Novels Professor
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At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.

Certain Children Decided Had
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For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

Be Real Character Find Heart
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And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting.

About Blogs Care Interesting
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European authors often write books about the rest of the world that profess a vision of shared humanity but fall far short, casting the other as exotic or dangerous.

About Authors Books Casting
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I don't know if I want to be a writer.

Know Want A Writer
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Reading 'Search Sweet Country' is like reading a dream, and indeed, at times, it feels like the magical landscapes of writers like the Nigerian Ben Okri or the Mozambican Mia Couto.

Ben Country Dream Feels
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There are skills you pick up on in a clinical environment in terms of how to ask questions, what to look for, how to listen that serve one well when trying to write.

Ask Clinical Environment How
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People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.

Boy Desk Gross Heart
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