Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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My style is very inspired by both my parents, so we all have the same taste.
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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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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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If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
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I write romance because I love to read romance.
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I was always falling in love at a very young age - kindergarten is when I can remember. There was always a crush. And when I was in sixth grade, I started picking up guitar, so I started wanting to write about it and sing about it.
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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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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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If I write something, and I'm going to put in all that love and energy, I want to direct it.
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If you want to get an email to Robert Redford, you send it to his assistant, and she prints it out. And then he will write you a letter, which is incredibly rare and incredibly classy. Unfortunately, I can't be that removed from technology.
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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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I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.
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When I was 14, I would sit up in my room and write till my eyes would bleed.
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And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
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I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.
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As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
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If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea.
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Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
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A day in which I don't write leaves a taste of ashes.
