Sean Durkin Quotes
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I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
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I really tend to write in retrospect.
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I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters.
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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 understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.
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I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.
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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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I think that ageism is a cultural illness; it's not a personal illness.
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When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them.
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I just write mechanical things.
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The thing is, I live a very public life, and I have to keep things personal, or else I have no personal life. It's very difficult.
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If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
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I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.
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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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When he wakes sometimes from dark dreams of broken cradles, and compasses without bearings, he pushes the unease down, lets the daylight contradict it. And isolation lulls him with the music of the lie.
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I would just love to have gone and stood in the Kop.
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I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast.
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I think PCs are going to be like trucks. Less people will need them. And this is going to make some people uneasy.
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When you write, no matter what, it ends up personal.
