Iris Johansen Quotes
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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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For me, opposition is just another opposition.
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A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.
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Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.
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I'm just a musician and a record producer.
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I'm just a person who forgives and forgets. I have a hard time holding grudges.
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Money just draws flies.
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I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
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It's all about connectivity - not just technical connectivity but geographic connectivity. That's what makes a city go.
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I'm not making films just to be bold.
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A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
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I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.
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I'm almost numb to misogyny at this point. It's just everywhere.
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God makes stars. I just produce them.
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It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.
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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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I'm just an ordinary judge from California.
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Saying the Washington Post is just a newspaper is like saying Rasputin was just a country priest.
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I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if you ramble off... As my friend Julius Lester says, 'A picture book is the essence of an experience.'
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To know enough about things is one prerequisite for having wonderful ideas.
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I enjoy an accumulating faith in weak forces - a weak faith, of course, easily shaken, but also easily regained - in what starts to drift: all the slow untrainings of the mind, the sift left of resolve sustained too long, the strange internal shift by which there's no knowing if this is the raod taken or untaken. There are soft affinities, possibly electrical; lint-like congeries; moonlit hints; asymmetrical pink glowy spots that are no the defeat of something, I don't think.
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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
