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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Authors frequently say things they are unaware of; only after they have gotten the reactions of their readers do they discover what they have said
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One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild, or now I have two. And I think that possibly there's some tenderness that came out of just time and age and being a parent and grandparent.
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If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.
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If you are under the dominion of sin, you are yet an utter stranger to the salvation of God.
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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
