Elizabeth Edwards Quotes
Life is this great big blackboard, and on it you write all the things that you do.
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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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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 never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.
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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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I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.
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My method is, I just sit down and write a book.
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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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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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I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.
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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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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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Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what is nurturing.
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I don't write books inadvertently.
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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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There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I broke up with them.
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Life is like a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself.
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I always think of myself as a working girl.
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Cindy Sheehan is a clown. There is no real antiwar movement. No serious politician, with anything to do with anything, would show his face at an antiwar rally.
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Pop music is a difficult term to define. I think about good music and bad music. Good music is good music whatever origin it comes from.
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When you walk on a court, clear your mind of everything unrelated to the goal of playing the match as well as you can.
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Life is this great big blackboard, and on it you write all the things that you do.
