Writing Quotes
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In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first.
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Historical fiction is a collaboration between the time in which it's written and the time that it's writing about and the far future, when we don't know what people are going to think about yet.
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.
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Face it, you have to be sort of an egomaniac to write something down and think that anyone is going to want to read it.
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Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing.
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Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.
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You can't learn to write that way - by writing directly for the screen. Wait until you're 30. But in the meantime write 200 short stories. You've got to learn how to write!
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Whatever I write I publish. Because that's where the money is.
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When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.
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I've honestly always been an overly analytical, highly observant person. I was playing music but thinking about it at same time, which was sort of exhausting. Aside from the pain of writing - you're not really in a gang like you are in band, it's a little bit lonelier - I think it was always something that I'd wanted to do. So the transition wasn't abrupt or painful.
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If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder.
