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		The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Natalie Dormer
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		With the release of her fourth album, 'Red,' in 2012 and a handful of highly publicized romances, Taylor was criticized by the press and other entertainers for such sinful acts as dating people and writing songs about it, gaining a reputation as boy-crazy and love-ridden.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Tavi Gevinson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my first book in 1961.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ed Emberley
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Hannibal Buress
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Gayle Forman
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		People say, 'How does having kids change your writing? Do you see the world through their eyes?' No - you just become a faster songwriter... In the old days, you'd be like, 'Oh I'm gonna work on this song for a few days.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Eddie Vedder
			
			
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		It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I know it's good, you know what I mean? Rather than writing a whole bunch and having to sort out what's good and what's not.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Samantha Shannon
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Writing does produce a very unique satisfaction. There are times when I'm writing that it's frustrating or appalling or difficult, but when it goes well, it goes really well, and there is a feeling of rightness, like I'm doing the thing I was meant to do, almost in a mystical way, like I'm at an appropriate angle to the world.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Rachel Kushner
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Because I find writing painful, I try to get it over with as fast as possible. But I write every day, or I lose the thread.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Patrick Modiano
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Gayle Forman
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Zoe Kazan