Write Quotes
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I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised by it. But you have to go with what feels right.
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I think my characters with my fingers, I think my characters with my guts. But when I say I think them, that is what I do, I feel them with the sympathetic neurons and I work out with my brain what it is that I am trying to write about, or I can't do it.
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Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.
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I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.
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I'm like the opposite of one of those comedians who's funny on stage and depressed behind closed doors . On record, I can get pretty dark, but in real life I'm very carefree. But when I'm happy, I ain't writing songs, I'm out having a laugh, being in love. I wouldn't have the time. If I ever get married, it'll be 'Darling, I need a divorce, it's been three years, I've got a record to write!'
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That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.
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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
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I'm usually really drawn to a song, and I know it would be good to cover if it sounds like something that I could write, or I wished I could write. Sometimes a writer just sounds like they're in your head, and that is really cool for me.
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No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.
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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'd love to write for One Direction. I think they've done incredibly well.
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Love is the feeling of everything I write and it's like my driving force for everything.
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I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.
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I have a nice little movie career, and I write plays and do my act.
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I don't write women who are weak or simpering.
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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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History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
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I don't write about my life in my column.
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When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.
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I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.
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Plot is a framework on which to drape other things. So once that's working, I can just let it go and do all the stuff that I love - 'Trojan horse' it. There are so many great YA heroines, and that's fantastic, but what about the emotionally complex boy out there? That's who I tend to write about.
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I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.
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Despite his dodgy politics, Yeats remains an inspiration for his genius and the simple fact that the older he got, the better he wrote.
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Only write from your own passion, your own truth. That's the only thing you really know about, and anything else leads you away from the pulse.
