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Writing is not my thing; playing football is my thing.

Football Playing Thing Writing
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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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Living entirely off writing is a precarious existence and money is always short, bit with careful management and planning I found I could keep my head and those of my family, through God's grace, above water.

Water Grace God Family
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Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

About Anything Anything Else Else
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Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

Doing Else Feel Only
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.

Away Exhausting Far Know
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When I say that basically writing is a hard hustle, I don't mean that it is a bad life, if one can get away with it. It's the miracle of miracles to make a living by the typer.

Bad Basically Hard Hustle
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Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.

Get Go Like Somewhere
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
Cannot Honest Man Separated
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Medicine has an immediate impact, the ability to do good. Writing is such a solitary activity.
Ability Activity Good Good Writing
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I've got to keep on writing. That's non-negotiable. At the same time, one has to look at the world and recognise that writing is not the only thing to be done - I want to have an effect on the world.

Done Effect Got Keep
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Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.

Acting Directing Frustrating Heaven
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For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

Concentrated Form Thinking Writing
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Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

First House Hydrant Off
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There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

Case Cases Considered Few
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Writing is an incredibly lonely job.
Incredibly Job Lonely Writing
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
Bad Hard Hard Work Health
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

Act Faith Grammar Trick
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

Area Life Made Making
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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.

Baby Books Both Each
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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.

About Copy Done First
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Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That's easy to manage.

After Day Easy Every
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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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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Art Believe Discovering Writing
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Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.

Dog Life Living Only
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I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.

I Never Think Anything
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Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.

Adequate Best Difficult Editing
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Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing.

Finally Get No Reason Paid
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Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

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Writing is like paying myself a formal visit…

Writing Paying Formal Visit
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Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

Amazed Commit Getting Getting Married
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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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Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.

About Culture Everything Makes
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Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.

Always Book Tour Meet
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Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.
Boring Much Patience Takes
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All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.
Autobiography Storytelling Writing
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Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.

Beneficial Effects Just Keep
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Writing is about confidence and wondering what the point of anything is.

About Anything Confidence Point
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Writing is what I do. It's like breathing to me at a certain point, but if I couldn't write, I do like cooking.

Breathing Certain CertainPoint Cooking
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And the writing is still : to you, with you, about you, because of you and for you.
About Because Still Writing
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My style is personal, my style of writing is personal, and I believe in that. I believe what comes out of me is an individual thing, and that's why I, I believe in the individual.

Believe Writing Style I Believe
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Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts. You had a writer, and he wrote a script, and that was your movie. I think that's been watered down a bit lately.

Back Been Bit Bogart
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Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.

Anything Anything Else Apprenticeship Craft
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All of my writing is God-given.
God-Given Writing
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Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent, and you feel those people filling your life.

Life Filling Invent Write
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Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously.

Anything Liked Only Place
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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

Afterwards Ashamed Hands Necessarily
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The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon

Biggest BiggestObstacle Changing Necessity
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The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.

Always Apt Beautiful Better
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The thing about good writing is it has a music to it.
About Good Good Writing Music
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