Erno Paasilinna Quotes
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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
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I am not an autobiographical writer.
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
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I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.
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There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
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I'm not a great writer.
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I didn't know how to be a writer. But I thought, 'I can do this.'
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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When somebody asks what I do, I guess I say 'writer' first.
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I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any artist, any musician, can write without regret, so I don't think perhaps it's even particularly Southern.
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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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Do you want to live life, or do you want to escape life?
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I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at 'Chicago' magazine. I sat down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody poured a white dessert wine with chocolate cake. It was a wine I would never have expected to make sense. The idea of any wine tasting fabulous with chocolate cake was fascinating to me.
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Right now, I don't particularly take different CDs or vinyl - I have my CD wallet that I take everywhere I go; there are different things in there that cater to different kinds of times - but if there's a special DJ thing coming up, I might go through my records and pick out this special selection. It's one the things that means you're improving as a DJ the more you do it, understanding what's going to go down well in a specific place.
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I know I will never have an affair with a married man again.
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That's painful always to lose.
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My brothers went to the parish school, one of the best in the county.
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I've done fine in this business, but I've never made quite enough money to have a family or have many options.
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One has to live a life that creates a writer.
