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If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
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We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

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But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

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That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.

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I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

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If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.

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And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that's what we're supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react.

Actually Always Because Been
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I have been called 'The American De Maupassant.' Well, I never wrote a filthy word in my life, and I don't like to be compared to a filthy writer.

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I write for myself things that I've gone through.

Gone Myself Things Through
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If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.

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Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

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I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.

Anymore Fiction Job Just
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I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it.

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Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.

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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

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I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

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When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.

Gets Interesting Lives Way
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In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

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One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.

Beat Deeper Down Integrity
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The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

Affiliation Independent Influence Outside
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There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

Force Live Moral Out
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True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.

Alter Aspire Consciousness Deep
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Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.

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Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

Sometimes People Write Novels
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You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's a loss.

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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
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Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.'

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In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.

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I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk.

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I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to read them, because I've spent too long with them already. I'm not advertising them very well, am I?

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The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science will discover these qualities... If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.

Beauty Discovery Majesty Nature
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I don't write material. Funny things happen to me in the course of a day, and I just make notes.

Write Course Material Funny
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I play a little guitar, write a few tunes, make a few movies, but none of that's really me. The real me is something else.

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If I write a tune and people think it's nice, then that's fine by me, but I hate having to compete and promote the thing. I really don't like promotion.

Compete Fine Hate Having
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I wasn't Lennon, or I wasn't McCartney. I was me. And the only reason I started to write songs was because I thought, 'Well, if they can write them, I can write them.'

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I just write a song, and it just comes out however it wants to. And some of them are catchy songs like 'Here Comes The Sun,' and some of them aren't, you know.

Catchy Here However Just
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Although I have guitars all around, and I pick them up occasionally and write a tune and make a record, I don't really see myself as a musician. It may seem a funny thing to say. It's just like, I write lyrics, and I make up songs, but I'm not a great lyricist or songwriter or producer. It's when you put all these things together - that makes me.

All-Around Although Around Funny
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The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.b

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I write to understand as much as to be understood.

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That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal.

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I just try to write songs that people are going to have a dialogue about.

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I don't really like to call myself a brand, and I don't like to think of myself as a brand. I'm a singer, a songwriter, a musician and a performer. And an actress, and all the other things that I do. When you add it all together, some might call it a brand, but that's not my focus.

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There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, 'Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth.'

Artistic Down Going High
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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
Reader Surprise Tears Writer
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Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

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I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

Am Books I Am Learn
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Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

Against Beginners Business Market
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I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

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