Wally Amos Quotes
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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 would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
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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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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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It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
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Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.
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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
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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 never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.
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I think 'In The Heat Of The Night' was one of the most influential films on me. Looking back now, I can see how influential it was on my screenwriting because here you have what looks to be a crime procedural, and it's actually a study in race and loneliness, and a perception of an era.
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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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I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.
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A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.
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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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I was a hired drummer for 3 Doors; there wasn't an opportunity for me to write.
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Now write this: 'The greatest rapture of my life was afforded me on a boat in Nassau by Fatima Blush,' and sign it 'James Bond, 007.'
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I tend not to look back. It's confusing.
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I do understand that when someone gives you a [expletive] load of money, you take that money. Someone like Larry Ellison wants to invest into his event and make it the biggest possible, and he gets stopped by the ATP. If you're a start-up, what would make you want to navigate through that and to go through that firing line? How can you step into tennis with any confidence? It's the stupidest thing I've ever heard of.
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Each soul taken by violence violates all humanity.
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Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.
