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So smile when you read a headline that says Investors lose as market falls. Edit it in your mind to Disinvestors lose as market falls but investors gain. Though writers often forget this truism, there is a buyer for every seller and what hurts one necessarily helps the other.

Buyer Seller Truism Headline
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In a time of crisis, there is rational tendency to turn to the writer.

Time Tendency Turn Crisis
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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.

Write Lot Above Thing
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I just love all the music. My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, all those folks. I can't do it, but I have a profound respect for it.

Music Love Profound Jazz
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.

Books Social Writer Speaking
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One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer.

Writer Thing Methodical You
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But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer.

About Alive Did Done
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It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that.

Agreement Either Even Felt
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The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.

Absolutely Best Reader Writer
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Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming it. That's where stories and poems get their power.

Artists Deal Dream Dreaming
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I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.

Singers Artists Role Audience
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I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.

Good Working Writer Very
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All my big heroes are literary, writers.

All.Literary Heroes Big Writers
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Writers simply have to write, and not worry so much about what people think, because public opinion is such a difficult horse to ride.

Ride Horse Difficult Public
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I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person... to enable people to have a whole picture of me; I have to both write and speak. I view my role as writer and also as oral communicator.

Believe Both Communicator Enable
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If I were a writer and not a singer in 10 years, I don't know how I'd feel about writing really personal songs and getting someone else to sing them.

If Were Writer Singer
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I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.

Always Aspiring Come Counsel
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I've always been a reader and a writer.

Always Been Reader Writer
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Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers discover our characters and allow them to become real.

Alive Allow Also Become
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Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.

Able After Alone Been
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

Ideas Intelligence Kind Really
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A writer in someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is.

Writer Someone Spends Years
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When another writer in another house is not free, no writer is free.

When Another Writer House
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.

Writer Needs Artist Brush
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.

Effects Other Subtle Travel
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I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.

College Come Know Love
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I've met many, many writers who say they would never write about their family, never write about people they did not totally make up. But that is not the composition of my character.

About Character Composition Did
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I think TV is much more the writer's medium and film is about the director and their vision and how you can collaborate with them and see that through to the end. They are so different.

Think Tv More Writer
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The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

Ashamed Author Become Best
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The writer must be a participant in the scene... like a film director who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work, and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least the main character.

Action Camera Character Director
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My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.

Afterwards Always Critics Ever
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As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

Arise Attaining Become Desire
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

Considered Myself Novels Really
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I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.

Considered Good Happy I Think
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From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.

Best Could Leaf Left
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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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In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.

Photograph Words Work Writer
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You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.
Typewriter Without Woman You
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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'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 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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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 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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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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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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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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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.

About Any Basic Basic Elements
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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.

Experiences I Think Life Places
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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.

Above Around Aware Lot
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