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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In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.
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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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I don't write books inadvertently.
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Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.
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Character is the salesperson
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The fact is that there is a serious problem of extremism with minority groups within Muslim communities.
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When you write, no matter what, it ends up personal.
