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In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read

Position Read Write Talk
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Best Day Every EveryDay
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I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity.

About Certainly Close Creativity
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I thought at 46 years old, I've been removed from the fashion industry for 10 years. I couldn't possibly write a model's book. That's for a 20-year-old. But I could say what I want to say without chastising the industry.

Been Book Could Fashion
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If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

About Compared Could Friendly
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I enjoy taking jobs that make fun of me - or me as Princess Leia, or me as the writer, or whatever, as some idea.

Enjoy Fun Idea Jobs
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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

Fiction Her Money Must
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I'm a comic book artist. So I think to myself, what do I like to draw? I like to draw hot chicks, fast cars and cool guys in trench coats. So that's what I write about.

About Artist Book Car
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I've learned this, that haters wanna hate. You could sing a song perfectly, you could write the songs perfectly, and some people are absolutely going to hate you.

Absolutely Could Going Hate
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We write to make sense of it all.

We Write Sense All
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A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out.

Writer Organism Writing Heart
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The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.

Meeting Writer Reader Intimate
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Every author really wants to have letters printed in the paper. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.

Author Really Letters Printed
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Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.

Mean More Say Than
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I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

Understand Person Years Write
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If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.

Die People Write Biography
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To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life.
Life Write Literature Pleasant
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I know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and make it without asking anyone's permission.

Film Ready Able Make
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I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

Wanted Write Direct Movies
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People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell.

Cause Feel Good Good News
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Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.

Aphorism Blood Cold Dull
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When people write about me, they usually start off with the headline 'World's Greatest Con Man.'

People Write Me Usually
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Because them write “Beware Of Dogs” for gate no mean say lion no fit still dey the backyard.

Gate Backyard Dey Beware
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I want to see Nigeria become one of the most industrious countries in the world. I want to see Africa be place where no one writes those articles about wars, disease and famine

Nigeria Africa Wars Disease
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Please take your time. I want you to kill me slowly so I can write my last poem to my wife's heart. They laughed, and took from me only the words dedicated to my wife's heart.

Time Poem Kill Slowly
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I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed

Write Half Saw Believed
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I like writers who can show me worlds I know nothing about, but my favorites are those who create characters or worlds which feel realistic and familiar to me, or who can make me feel inspired.

Writers Show Worlds Favorites
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You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

Amount Certain Need Nerve
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It's hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don't know me.

About Hard Know Me
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If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.

Never Perfection Waited Word
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How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?

Any Cannot Colors Grade
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Embrace your destiny and write your own story.
Embrace Your Destiny Write Your
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There's always ways of motivating yourself to higher levels. Write about it, dream about it. But after that, turn it into action. Don't just dream.

Action After Always Dream
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To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing.

Book Exercise Hard Notes
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Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.

Afford Basically Books Britain
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I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.

Awaiting Flesh I Write Images
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I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.

About Arts Because Business
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I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. And I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.

Simple Blinders Read Book
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The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.

Actually Create Establishment Feel
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The first job of a writer is to be honest.
First First Job Honest Job
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I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold.

Blank Face Books Care
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I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?' You just can't help it; it's the way people are.

Book Character First First Thing
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If you believe the people who love you, you get lazy. And if you believe the people who hate you, you become... maybe intimidated, or whatever the word might be, and you don't write as well.

Become Believe Lazy Hate
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It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person. Then I meet other writers and realize that they're not.

Expectation Kind Meet Myself
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When people write a novel, they want to have that reach and that impact. To get it with a first novel, you can either see it as an albatross or a calling card.

Calling Calling Card Card Either
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I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with.

Book Happy Lame Could
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I write slowly. I actually write quickly, but I throw out so much material.

Actually Material Much Out
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The idea is not enough. And the most annoying thing for me as a writer is that people will come up to me and say, 'Hey, I've got a great idea for a book. I'm not a writer, but I've got a great story.'

Annoying Book Come Enough
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I don't really think about genre. I like to write books that I'd love to read myself.

Books Genre Like Love
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I'm trying to write books that taste like ice cream but have the nutrition of vegetables.

Nutrition Cream Books Taste
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