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 don't write constantly; it's two serials and a novel a year.
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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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They hunt you. It's terrible... They never think about how the person feels about what they write.
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Life is like a roller coaster. Ups and downs are just part of the ride.
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If you pray for a thing, but have fear as you pray, that you may not receive it, or that your prayer will not be acted upon by Infinite Intelligence, your prayer will have been in vain.
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Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.
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Life is this great big blackboard, and on it you write all the things that you do.
