Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
If summer was a book then I was going to write something beautiful in it. In my own handwriting. But I had no idea what to write.
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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 like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
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I always try to describe making movies like summer camp, or some holiday where you spend all day, every day with a new group of people whom you kind of love and then never see again.
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I write romance because I love to read romance.
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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've been pretty lucky with neighbors. But back in 1998, I lived, like, literally next door to Wrigley Field in Chicago. And I had, like, 50,000 bad neighbors spread out over the course of one summer. I'm a diehard Cubs fan, but living right next to the ballpark, it's just - as you're trying to go to sleep, you can just, like, hear urination.
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I just write mechanical things.
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I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.
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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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I was on the beach every summer. That was the pleasant part of my childhood because we were right by the sea. We'd take a picnic, and I'd spend hours in the water until I turned blue. You couldn't get me out of there.
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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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Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there's no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do.
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I write to escape; to escape poverty.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.
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I don't write constantly; it's two serials and a novel a year.
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I write in the studio.
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People don't want to give up their SUVs. They don't want to turn the thermostat down in the winter and up in the summer.
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I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.
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In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive.
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People are calling on me to put corrupt people into prison. Where do you start?
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There is nothing as special as watching greatness.
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If summer was a book then I was going to write something beautiful in it. In my own handwriting. But I had no idea what to write.
