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		I actually didn't listen to the Beatles song 'Nowhere Man' when I was writing my book of the same name. What I listened to a lot was 'Abbey Road.' Its disjointedness and its readiness to confuse only to delight were inspiring to me.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Aleksandar Hemon 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Fatty Arbuckle 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Edmund White 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Idries Shah 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Gail Sheehy 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Creating things sometimes is difficult. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Warren Littlefield 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I'm going through. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Randy Houser 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Tasha Smith 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Dan Pink 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Irvine Welsh 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Naftali Bennett 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Jack Antonoff 
			 
			
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		Producing should be a creative responsibility. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Kanye West 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		As enjoyable as it is when you're just writing and getting feedback from family members, it's 10 times more enjoyable, or 100 times more enjoyable, when you actually start getting paid for it, and people start reading your books, and once in a while you get a good review. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Arthur Slade 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I read a book called 'The Tao of Physics' by Fritjof Capra that pointed out the parallels between quantum physics and eastern mysticism. I started to feel there was more to reality than conventional science allowed for and some interesting ideas that it hadn't got round to investigating, such as altered states of consciousness. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Brian Josephson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		For movies, I usually do an entire book that has all kinds of things about what is happening at the time the movie is going on and try to get into what my character's going to be like, to try to get some consistency, because they shoot movies out of order. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Loretta Devine 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		And then we've got Blades of Glory, and we've got Brothers Solomon, and I've got a script in development with this guy Chuck Martin who used to write on Arrested, and, you know, we have a few things in various stages of development. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				William Emerson Arnett 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I actually didn't listen to the Beatles song 'Nowhere Man' when I was writing my book of the same name. What I listened to a lot was 'Abbey Road.' Its disjointedness and its readiness to confuse only to delight were inspiring to me. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Aleksandar Hemon