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Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings.

Khaled Hosseini

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I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word. To be a writer - this may seem trite, I realize - you have to actually write.

Khaled Hosseini

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You have to write every day, and you have to write whether you feel like it or not.

Khaled Hosseini

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Khaled Hosseini

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I go out, but not too much. When I'm on tour, I just write a lot of music and sleep.

Wale

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I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

Paulo Coelho

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Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.

Octavio Paz

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Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?

Paulo Coelho

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I know I'm not the best. I'm not the best singer, I'm not the best songwriter, I'm not the best player.

Kid Rock

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Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.

Octavio Paz

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God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

Martin Luther

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I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.

Isabel Allende

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Today, writers want to impress other writers.

Paulo Coelho

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The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years.

Isabel Allende

Fact Writer Experience Root

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I never try to convey a message, I just want to tell a story. Why that story in particular? I have no idea, but I have learned to surrender to the muse. I become obsessed with a theme or with certain stories; they haunt me for years, and finally, I write them.

Isabel Allende

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I get up every morning early, when the sky is red, and write for 10 hours.

Isabel Allende

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I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.

O. J. Simpson

About Book I Can Point

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Let's face it, the great comedians now that are handicapped in the looks department are tremendous writers.

Jack Black

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Be kind and considerate with your criticism. It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.

Abraham Cowley

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The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of no use. . . .

William Faulkner

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The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.

William Faulkner

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A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid

William Faulkner

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If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The

William Faulkner

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Read, read, read. Read everything-- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window

William Faulkner

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A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

Vladimir Nabokov

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Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.

Jackie Chan

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I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.

Vladimir Nabokov

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When I make a film - I direct my own film, I write my own script - that's what I want to hear from the audience. 'Oh, thank you, Jackie!'

Jackie Chan

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Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

James Baldwin

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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

James Baldwin

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Sometimes my brain writes a check that reality can't cash.

Adam Savage

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Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.

Harold Bloom

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All writers are to some extent inventors, describing people as they would like to see them in life.

Harold Bloom

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He canâ€™t think, he canâ€™t write. Thereâ€™s no discernible talent.

Harold Bloom

Think Write Talent

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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.

Nadine Gordimer

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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

Jackie Collins

About Anything Bizarre Characters

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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.

Jackie Collins

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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.

Jackie Collins

About After Ask Because

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I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.

Jackie Collins

About American American Dream Dream

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I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.

Jackie Collins

Baby Books Both Each

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Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.

Jackie Collins

About Know Must Passion

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Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about what you've done in your life and write about that.

Jackie Collins

About Copy Done First

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I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.

Jackie Collins

About Anybody Basically Caught

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Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all

Lady Gaga

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It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.

George Orwell

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Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.

George W. Bush

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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

V.S. Naipaul

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My wife is my in-home editor and reads everything I write.

Khaled Hosseini

All stories I write are compulsive. Anything I've ever written was because I don't have a choice. I write stories because I can't wait to tell it, I can't wait to see how it ends.

Khaled Hosseini

Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings.

Khaled Hosseini

I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word. To be a writer - this may seem trite, I realize - you have to actually write.

Khaled Hosseini

You have to write every day, and you have to write whether you feel like it or not.

Khaled Hosseini

Write the story you need to tell and want to read. It's impossible to know what others want, so don't waste time trying to guess.

Khaled Hosseini

I go out, but not too much. When I'm on tour, I just write a lot of music and sleep.

Wale

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

Paulo Coelho

Octavio Paz

Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?

Paulo Coelho

I know I'm not the best. I'm not the best singer, I'm not the best songwriter, I'm not the best player.

Kid Rock

Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.

Octavio Paz

Martin Luther

Isabel Allende

Today, writers want to impress other writers.

Paulo Coelho

The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years.

Isabel Allende

I never try to convey a message, I just want to tell a story. Why that story in particular? I have no idea, but I have learned to surrender to the muse. I become obsessed with a theme or with certain stories; they haunt me for years, and finally, I write them.

Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende

O. J. Simpson

Let's face it, the great comedians now that are handicapped in the looks department are tremendous writers.

Jack Black

Be kind and considerate with your criticism. It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.

Abraham Cowley

William Faulkner

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.

William Faulkner

William Faulkner

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The

William Faulkner

Read, read, read. Read everything-- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window

William Faulkner

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

Vladimir Nabokov

Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.

Jackie Chan

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.

Vladimir Nabokov

When I make a film - I direct my own film, I write my own script - that's what I want to hear from the audience. 'Oh, thank you, Jackie!'

Jackie Chan

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

James Baldwin

James Baldwin

Sometimes my brain writes a check that reality can't cash.

Adam Savage

Harold Bloom

All writers are to some extent inventors, describing people as they would like to see them in life.

Harold Bloom

He canâ€™t think, he canâ€™t write. Thereâ€™s no discernible talent.

Harold Bloom

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.

Nadine Gordimer

I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

Jackie Collins

I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.

Jackie Collins

I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.

Jackie Collins

I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.

Jackie Collins

I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.

Jackie Collins