Write Quotes
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I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'
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I noticed in America that if you write a book of any kind, you're made to be the representative of all the issues that might surround it.
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If you want a database, you don't go out and say you're going to write it. I see platforms as going in that direction.
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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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I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.
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Write me of hope and love, and hearts that endured.
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A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour.
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I wasn't ready to write my own songs when I was in my early 20s. I'm still growing but I definitely grew because of my experiences on the road and in the studio.
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I don't really think about genre. I like to write books that I'd love to read myself.
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Before I studied story, I was trying to write a novel, and it was terrible. It wasn't going anywhere, and I couldn't figure out what I was trying to do. It was really hard; much harder than I thought it was going to be. Now that I've studied story, I think I'd have a different approach and maybe I could actually get it done.
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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 write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words.
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When I write, I want something to sound good itself.
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I write about true-life type things.
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I'm a long distance runner, and I get my best ideas when I'm out running. It also helps that I can't write it down immediately - if you hold onto an idea, other things will stick on it.
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How many times have I thought of me sitting on a bench with him and me wriggling away from whatever he wanted to talk to me about. Sometimes you say you're going to write a story about that and sometimes it just arrives, and those scenes arrive.
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I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.
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Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.
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I bought these pink sticker things... and I would write things on them, and I wrote, 'I will write an international smash,' and shortly after, it was when we did 'Monster,' and it was an international smash.
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If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.
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As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
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It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.
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I write literary, not commercial, fiction - or so I've been told by my publishers who are proud I write literary fiction but secretly wish I wrote commercial.
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I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.
