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		There are plenty of paths to becoming a writer, but I think the most reliable ones involve total commitment: writing for magazines and newspapers, teaching writing, editing books, representing authors.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Chris Pavone 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		The first thing my writing ever earned me wasn't an advance on a book; it wasn't a fee for an article or anything like that. It was, in fact, a residency at Hedgebrook Farm. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dana Stabenow 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I don't have any office; I can write everywhere. So, I put a piece of paper on the table, and then I travel. Literally, writing for me is like travelling. It's getting out of myself and living another life - maybe a better life. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				J. M. G. Le Clezio 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				E. L. Doctorow 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them - because I can't understand how you can explain a process that I find so baffling. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kate Atkinson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Malcolm Turnbull 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		After doing a juice cleanse, I'm motivated to eat healthier and not emotionally. Cleansing is like my meditation. It makes me stop, focus and think about what I'm putting into my body. I'm making a commitment to my health and hitting the reset button. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Salma Hayek 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that there would be fans of those stories. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Paolo Bacigalupi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		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 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Calvin Trillin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				E. B. White 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You could take away the singing, and I am fine. But don't take away my gift of writing. It is the best way I can relate and express what I am feeling and what I am going through. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				BeBe Winans 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Baltimore residents deserve a commitment from leaders to deliver meaningful changes and the possibility of a better future, and so does every Marylander who loves our great state. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Larry Hogan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Randy Owen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Arendt did have a certain snobbishness, though in some of her writing she expressed more democratic attitudes. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barbara Sukowa 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Wally Lamb 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You have to remember I've been working with adults since I was 12 - they were my peers, and it has an effect, for sure. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Indiana Evans 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I love teaching online at my website and soon I'll be writing a math book. I love to teach math. I just don't have time for a full-time teaching gig. Acting is way too time-consuming. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Danica McKellar 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm a writer who simply can't know what I'm writing about until the writing lets me discover it. In a sense, my writing process embraces the gapped nature of my memory process, leaping across spaces that represent all I've lost and establishing fresh patterns within all that remains. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Floyd Skloot 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		I love writing with other artists, I really do. Because you can try to guess what they would want to say and how they would sing it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Charles Kelley 
			 
			
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		A friend of mine who is in the publishing business knew I was writing a book, and he said, 'Have you said anything yet about the good guy? Because I know you spend so much time with the bad guys.' Because they're fun. So then you have to make the good guy fun, in order to compete. That's the challenge. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Elmore Leonard 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There's a half-conscious state you enter when you're actually generating prose, and you are simply a better writer in that place. In fact it's the only place where you even are a writer. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				John Jeremiah Sullivan 
			 
		 
	
	
	 
	
	
	
	
		Only the family of God can solve the problems of our time. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				James Meredith 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sigmund Freud 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There are plenty of paths to becoming a writer, but I think the most reliable ones involve total commitment: writing for magazines and newspapers, teaching writing, editing books, representing authors. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Chris Pavone