Iris Johansen 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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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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It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
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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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You are just your intelligence.
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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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Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
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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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We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.
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I was taught to think outside the box. Before my grandfather was one of the original Mad Men, he and a group of other Air Force Intelligence officers formalized brainstorming as a problem solving technique. He taught the concept that creativity can be taught at Buffalo University. My dad invented toys. My mom was a photographer.
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I've been wanting to write a book about what goes into creating a novel, and the story behind 'A Passage to India' is especially interesting.
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Let still woman take An elder than herself: so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart, For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner to be lost and warn, Than women's are.
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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
