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 really don't have anything urgent to say, and I think you shouldn't write unless you have something urgent to say. Sometimes that troubles me, and sometimes I don't really care.
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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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It's really cool that Miley Cyrus said she's the biggest feminist ever. I was like, 'That's the sound of 200,000 eight-year-olds Googling the word "feminist!
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During college, when I was working full time for my father [the decorator Mark Hampton], I rented an apartment and I just couldn't take time off to paint it. So I went there one evening and stayed up all night painting the place what I thought was a lovely pale yellow. When the sun came up, I realized I'd painted the walls the color of insanity. I had to immediately mix in all my trim color to tone it down. Yellow is an electric color and wholly misleading. It becomes more yellow with the sun's yellow light on it. The moral is, even if you think your yellow is the one, go paler.
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The 24 Hour Plays is a quite brilliant, exhilarating event for everyone concerned.
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You write a thing down because you're hoping to get a hold on it.
