Will Hobbs Quotes
An image often propels the novel, gets it started. For me, it's an image that has a lot of emotion connected to it.
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We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star.
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Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want a reaction. Yeah, it's nicer when the reaction is to throw flowers than it is to throw brickbats, but you have to accept both equally.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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I don't have my novel outlined, and I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it over again.
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I love bookstores and booksellers. In my novel 'Dirty Martini,' I thanked over 3,000 booksellers by name in the back matter.
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When I'm away from the field, I show a little more emotion and stuff.
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All my career, all that I've really done has been based on emotion and intuition and gravitating toward what sounds good.
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Sex is emotion in motion.
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'Can't Get Closer' I originally recorded in about half an hour, just on my bed with a microphone. I actually re-recorded the song with a cleaner vocal take, but I decided to leave the demo version on there, just because I felt that instant where it was created is what captured the most emotion.
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Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.
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The novel is a seduction; a reader has to be seduced.
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The definition of a musical is that the emotion is so strong that you can't talk anymore, you have to sing. The emotion isn't strong enough when you're just like, 'Let's take a second to sing about lamps!'
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Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.
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I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
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In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.
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The thread that has always connected my family was the news.
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Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint their great painting, they have it all planned out in their head. But for me, it's never worked that way.
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When I perform on stage, I often pretend to be someone other than myself to bring a certain emotion or intent to a song.
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I remember - when I was little, I remember playing 'Tecmo Bowl,' and I would be so excited to be Bo Jackson in the game that I wanted to watch him play in real life.
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I like my subjects to be American, and not too dead, so I can interview people who knew them.
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Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
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An image often propels the novel, gets it started. For me, it's an image that has a lot of emotion connected to it.
