E. O. Wilson Quotes
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I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
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I really tend to write in retrospect.
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When I write a movie, I write it for me.
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I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
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The Southern borders of Bavaria are being protected by Hungary.
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It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
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I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.
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My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
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I write romance because I love to read romance.
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I was always falling in love at a very young age - kindergarten is when I can remember. There was always a crush. And when I was in sixth grade, I started picking up guitar, so I started wanting to write about it and sing about it.
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I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.
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I was elected six times to represent southern Arizona, in the State Legislature and then in Congress.
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Camp Southern Ground is a lot more than a camp. It's more of a campus.
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If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
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I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.
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People often write after they finish their career, or they don't play anymore, or they are not anymore active. So I say, why do that? And let's do it differently.
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Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint their great painting, they have it all planned out in their head. But for me, it's never worked that way.
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I know one thing - very few writers in Southern California get to write what they want to write. We are more or less worker ants, working for either film companies or tv companies or Internet companies. We do a lot of assigned work. Feelings hardly ever enter into it. If they do, they tend to be on a sort of soap opera level.
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Toward seven o'clock every morning, I leave my study and step Out on the bright terrace; the sun already burns resplendent Between the shadows of the fig tree, makes the low wall of coarse Granite warm to the touch. Here my tools lie ready and waiting, Each one an intimate, an ally: the round basket for weeds: The zappetta, the small hoe with a short haft . . . There's a rake here as well, at at times a mattock and spade, Or two watering cans filled with water warmed by the sun. With my basket and small hoe in hand, facing the sun, I Go out for my morning walk.
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Here's the thing: We have plenty of time. These are cockroaches and we want to kill them all. They're just absolute pieces of garbage and we will get them. So why don't we try the air campaign first?
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I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.
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In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.
