J. M. Coetzee Quotes
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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.
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I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores.
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When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it.
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I love writing songs.
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I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don't make any separation in terms of those practices.
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Write every day; never give up; it's supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and reward in the act of writing, because you can't look for praise from editors, readers, or critics. In other words, tips that are much easier to give than to take.
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If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.
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I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.
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Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.
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My highest point was the first thing I won, a short story competition in a women's magazine in the Eighties. It was the first time I'd had my writing validated, and the first thing I'd ever shown anyone else.
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When I'm writing, I'm just in it and trying to figure out what seems best.
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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.
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'Float On' was a fine song, but I was still writing the lyrics on the last day we were working on it and deciding if it was something we wanted to put on the record.
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I am truly at my happiest not when I am writing an aria for an actor or making a grand political or social point. I am at my happiest when I've figured out a fun way for somebody to slip on a banana peel.
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Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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We all need to focus on our writing. Because the millions of readers out there don't care about your blog.
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I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.
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I always joke that my kids' favorite holiday is Father's Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It's my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.
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Well, for us, it's always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it's always a big plus no matter what happens.
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I'm a big Rick Ross fan, and I think everybody knows I'm a big Kanye fan.
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I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six issues. And the success of the book, I think, speaks well to that decision.
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You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit of the human race.
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All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.
