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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
Ear Only Reader True
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I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them.

About Action Afford Against
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I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.

Am I Am I Can Making
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I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.

Charts Compete I Can Just
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Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

Method Writing Buy Ways
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I write on big yellow legal pads - ideas in outline form when I'm doing stand-up and stuff. It's vivid that way. I can't type it into an iPad - I think that would put a filter into the process.

Big Doing Filter Form
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Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

Divided Like Teeth Writers
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The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.

Write Reason Good Books
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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

Book Greatest Half Library
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Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.

Bone Close Eight Episode
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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

Borrow Good Great Other
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But HBO is less interested in how many people are watching than in how much the people who are watching are liking the show. They didn't set up their business model to make writers happy. It's just a nice unintended consequence.

Business Business Model Consequence Happy
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When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me. So when David Fincher comes along and wants to direct 'The Social Network,' when Bennett Miller comes along and wants to direct 'Moneyball,' or when Danny Boyle wants to direct 'Jobs'? Hallelujah. I want them directing it.

Along Best Danny David
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Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Always Bad Book Disgrace
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I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue.

Consider Dialogue Necessary Plot
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Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things.

Different Different Things Holding Lot
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Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing.
Difficulty I Write Notes Singing
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I thought, If people are going to write about what I'm wearing, then I would wear young British designers who need the publicity.

About British Designers Going
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

Originality Confuse Never Aim
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In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.

Believe Standard Double Often
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If you wish to be a writer, write.

Wish Write Writer You
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I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I want to just do everything.

Act Everything Just Paint
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I really want to write a novel. I also want to learn to play the mandolin.

Also Learn Novel Play
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I think when I was younger I wasn't really sure if I wanted to act, so I played around with a few different ideas. I wasn't sure whether I might want to write or whether I might want to do something in fashion.

Act Around Different Different Ideas
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If I hadn't done 'Harry Potter,' I would have gone and done years of art. I really do love it, and I'd love to write.

Art Done Gone Harry
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I paint and I draw and I write and I do other things too, and recently some people at school were asking if I'd ever publish any of my work. But I almost feel like I would have to publish it under another name because there's a definition of me out there that feels kind of stuck in the moment when it was formed.

Almost Another Any Asking
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I could never really imagine myself doing one thing, and I'm pretty sure that I'll end up doing four or five different things. I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I want to just do everything.

Act Could Different DifferentThings
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Sometimes you read a passage by a great writer, and you know what he says and how he says it will always be, for you, the only possible way it could be. Less often a painter will describe an event in a way that fits into your interpretation of that event so perfectly that it becomes the event itself.

Events Way Sometimes
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Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print.
Angel Devils Must Print
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It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

Born Business How Learn
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If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

About Above Being Dignity
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For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

Best Better Good Good Luck
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I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

Because Critics God Like
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I sing songs that I have lived or I write them because I have lived them. I think the believability factor is key.

Sing Song That Have
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Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: 'After a heavy rainfall, poems titled 'Rain' pour in from across the nation.'

Across After Am August
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I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.

Books Connect Even Excite
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I never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hopes was that this would be something tangible to separate me from the nameless, numbered masses.

Developed Had Hopes Intended
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Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.

Alive Amazing Amazing Experience Characters
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I am a writer... I am a genius of a writer; I have it in me. I am writing the best poems of my life; they will make my name.

Am Best Genius I Am
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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

Along Friend Good Good Writer
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The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.

Call Common Cool Criticism
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A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

Bean Day Gets He
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On a more practical level, anyone out there who wants to be a writer should clearly recognize that this is a brutal business, where even incredibly talented people sometimes never make a living. If you want to chase such a dream, please have a Plan B in place.

Anyone Brutal Business Chase
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Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

Bound Freedom Living More
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All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment.

About All Writers Because Environment
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When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

Beauty Becomes Comfort Enlightenment
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It is certainly very hard to write about sex in English without making it unattractive.
Hard Sex Unattractive.
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The way in which people talk about climate is just so wonky and so abstract and such a boys' club that it makes a lot of women just roll their eyes or feel that they are somehow not qualified. I certainly had to fight that feeling in myself in order to write about it.

About Abstract Boy Certainly
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It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again.

About Again Book Books
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I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting.
Distracting Find I Write Listen
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