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I'm not successful in Hollywood, and I probably would never be. I think Hollywood has such an interesting model for success, and it creates those successful people. I'm not in that chosen category, but what is successful for me is that, in spite of that, I've been able to work and do the things that I wrote down that I wanted to do and be.

Success People Wrote Down
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I like to go back and read poems that I wrote fifty years ago, twenty years ago, and sometimes they surprise me – I didn’t know I knew that then. Or maybe I didn’t know it then, and I know more now.

Poem Back Write Surprise
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I thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doing. And because nobody else was ever doing my songs, I felt - you know, I had to go out and do them.

Because Best Doing Else
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It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

About Again Beginning Came
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I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it.

Born Came Change Collapsed
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The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.

African Approve Book Bride
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Do you know why Albert Camus was so prolific? He wrote to keep from screaming.

Camus Prolific Sceaming Keep
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I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose.

Books Children Few Purpose
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I wrote a piece for the school literary magazine that now makes me think: 'My God in Heaven, this is just the worst drivel.

God Heaven Just Literary
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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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My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the 'light' and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar.

Artist Continually Liar Life
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If I ever wrote a book on preaching, it would contain three words: Preach the Word. Get rid of all the other stuff that gets you sidetracked; preach the Word.

Preach Rid Sidetracked Stuff
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I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

Back Down Excited Get
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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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As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.

Adolescent Africa Because Books
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I have been called 'The American De Maupassant.' Well, I never wrote a filthy word in my life, and I don't like to be compared to a filthy writer.

Have Called America De Maupassant
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The first thing I wrote was a one-act play that got accepted at a one-act play festival, and I was in it along with Nathan Lane and a couple of other very good actors.

Accepted Actor Along Couple
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Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

Dedicate Gentle Greeks Let Us
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I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for me.

Cole Porter Enough First Five
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Cole Porter wrote Anything Goes and four more hits for me.

Anything Cole Porter Four Goes
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I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do was die in alphabetical order.

Alphabet Die Ever Got
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In 7th grade, I believe, I wrote my first rap song. It was about everything I was seeing, everything that was going on around me.

About Around Believe Everything
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I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid.

About Afraid Because Book
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I wrote lyrics that were intensely personal to me a few years ago. Maybe people know me better now.

Wrote Lyrics That Were
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What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

Author Best Book Call
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Throughout his career, W.G. Sebald wrote poems that were strikingly similar to his prose. His tone, in both genres, was always understated but possessed of a mournful grandeur.

Always Both Career Genres
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When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese.

Able Could Directly Emotions
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In Jewish tradition, dying in one’s sleep is called a kiss of God, and dying on the Sabbath is a gift that is merited by piety. For the pious person, my father once wrote, it is a privilege to die.

Tradition Jewish Dying Piety
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When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'll say to myself, I wrote this and he doesn't know it!

Record Song Feel Somebody
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There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.

Always Away Burn Consolation
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I wrote my own anthem: it's called 'Mariah's Theme.' It's on the 'Rainbow' album from '99. Back in the day.

Album Anthem Back Day
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Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would note In me a beauty that was never mine, How first you knew me in a book I wrote, How first you loved me for a written line....

Friend Forget Fain Beauty
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I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.

Celtic Clubs Even Everybody
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If I wrote a musical it wouldn't be about me. Although I do some magic, so it would probably be about a magician who appeared and re-appeared all over the place.

About Although Appeared Magic
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Jim Henson was the only piece of fan mail I ever wrote when I was a little kid.

Ever Fan FanMail Jim
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I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.

Day Just Kinda Like
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I was just 20 years old when I wrote Broken Arrow.

Arrow Broken Just Old
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I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer.

Could Craft Day Developing
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When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them. I just haven't gotten around to it for several reasons.

About Around Books Children
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I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled.

Actor Bald Early Else
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I'm astonished by my success. I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.

Famous Become Occurred Never
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Nobody ever wrote a story for me. I told in every story what was really inside my gut, and it came out that way. My stories began to get noticed because the average reader could associate with them.

Wrote Story What Really
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I wrote a great deal... but very little of any importance; there are not more than four of five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.

Great deal Importance Papers
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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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The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.

About First Landing Mars
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My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time.

Also Always Artist Bunch
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The songwriting did come naturally; it really did. Like Joe said, the first song we ever wrote together was the song that got us signed, you know, so it was either luck, fate, or something in between.

Between Come Did Either
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I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11.

Been Boy First I Think
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I've never forgotten a single record I cut or a song I wrote.
Cut Forgotten Never Record
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When I wrote 'Help Me Make It Through the Night,' I was on an oil platform out in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico and was just thinking of myself.

Gulf Help Just Make
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