Carl Clinton Van Doren Quotes
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It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.
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I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
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Yes, we're pretty into books around my house. We have lots and lots of books around. We have TV, but really no one ever watches it.
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When I write a movie, I write it for me.
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It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
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I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.
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I don't want to be a grown-up anymore; it's hard!
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.
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I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.
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The blessings wrestling has given me have allowed me to find some new passions, but it's really hard when you've got that first love, and nothing really replaces it.
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I write romance because I love to read romance.
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My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
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When I get on a roll with something, it's really hard for me to put it down unfinished.
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People often write after they finish their career, or they don't play anymore, or they are not anymore active. So I say, why do that? And let's do it differently.
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It's hard to do a reality show when there's so much crying and drama.
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Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.
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I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.
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The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.
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Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside.
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Im a hip-hop guy, and the first time I heard Eminem was in 96. He was on a record with Shabban Siddiq. I was like, Who is this guy? Hes dope! First album came out: awesome. Second album came out: awesome. Third album, I was like, Eh. He started to get really successful. He wasnt mine anymore.
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...but I was bored, I could scarcely understand them. I started to borrow novels from the circulating library, and read one after the other. But in the long run they didn't help. They presented intense lives, profound conversations, a phantom reality more appealing than my real life. So, in order to feel as if I were not real, I sometimes went...
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Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.
