Hakan Nesser Quotes
While I'm writing, I'm also the first reader, and I want to write a book where I'm excited about what happens next.
Quotes to Explore
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When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.
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I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.
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I read my books to writing workshops and friends, and I'm often focussed just on keeping them entertained. I never think about marketing at all.
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The sad thing is that apparently if you want to become the next Premier or the leader, suddenly you've got to shut down your human side.
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Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
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I'm supporting the charities that I supported during my lifetime, and I want to continue to do that.
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For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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I can be collaborative, for instance, in situations where I go and study the artist's work before I start writing. Then I can at least try to write towards their style.
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Hunger and homelessness aren't things we always want to talk about.
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I have nothing maternal in me, and men want to be mothered a lot of the time.
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I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.
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Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
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I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.
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When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
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As much as I enjoy traveling and playing on stage as an artist, I really find my true sense of purpose in a room writing a song.
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It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.
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When you leave, you basically want to go eat, because I talk a lot about food in my act. So when you leave, you leave hungry.
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Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.
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God's love is just like the sun, constant and shining for us all. And just as the earth rotates around the sun, it is the natural order for us to move away for a season, and then to return closer, but always within the appropriate time.
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As all entrepreneurs know, you live and die by your ability to prioritize. You must focus on the most important, mission-critical tasks each day and night, and then share, delegate, delay or skip the rest.
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This crusade to separate church and state is only one expression of my raison d'être. I'm an atheist, but I'm also an anarchist, and a feminist, and an integrationist.
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If you ain't got a fat woman, you're making a big mistake, because a big fat woman tastes as good as a T-bone steak.
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While I'm writing, I'm also the first reader, and I want to write a book where I'm excited about what happens next.
