Augustus 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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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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Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust - or less than dust - in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing.
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If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.
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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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My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
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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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Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.
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I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.
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Here's all I know about Dubai: It's one of those somewhere-over-there places where they make sand.
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I was a hired drummer for 3 Doors; there wasn't an opportunity for me to write.
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I never write my stories as a wake-up call as such. I simply explore the kinds of situations that I find personally challenging by placing characters into situations that challenge them in similar ways.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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Be fearless. Write what you want. Write how you want. Create art.
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I feel thankful to God, first and foremost, allowing me to enjoy this 'smell the roses' kind of thing.
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A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.
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My end goal in the piano is to play Scott Joplin's 'Maple Leaf Rag.
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We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.
