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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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

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

Abstract Been European Expressionism
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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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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.

Considered Dangerous Jail Repressive
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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.

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

Exceptions General Can Think
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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.

Alone Call English Make
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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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Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

Divided Like Teeth Writers
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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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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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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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Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
Beggars Know Society Western
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Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?

About Ask Critics Does
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Today, writers want to impress other writers.

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

Comedians Department Face Great
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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.

Artist Listen Critics Reviews
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Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.

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

Like Life
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

About Going Just Much
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Writers should provoke disagreement.

Disagreement Provoke Should Writers
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I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it's always nice, I'll grant you, if he has one.

Always Anyone Deeply Feel
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Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour.
Better Much Rock Roll
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You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

Being Between Bored Daydreaming
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I am suspicious of writers who say their work is original and influenced by nobody. If it is, it is probably uninteresting. The biggest source of novels is other novels.

Am Biggest I Am Influenced
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For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with apt words.

About Apt Attempt Else
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Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

Originality Imitation Judicious Writers
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If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.

Better Blogs Read Words
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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
Science Fiction Writer Inevitable
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
All Writers Bad Bad One Forget
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Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.

Begin Fiction Form Likely
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Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.

Even Got House Invited
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Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.

Big Curiously Full Life
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The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.

Bringing Care Great Just
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