Sigrid Nunez Quotes
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In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.
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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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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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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 just write mechanical things.
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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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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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Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.
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My method is, I just sit down and write a book.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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I don't write constantly; it's two serials and a novel a year.
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Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.
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To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.
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I will always, forever, write songs, and wherever they're meant to be is where they'll be.
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Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what is nurturing.
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Don’t write to impress other people — impress yourself first!
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Michael John's music is soul-stirring. It gets inside the deepest part of you; it's almost a chemical reaction.
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There were certain films where I went, 'Oh, my God, I'm doing a movie.'
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Saying the Washington Post is just a newspaper is like saying Rasputin was just a country priest.
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When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
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You write a thing down because you're hoping to get a hold on it.
