Write Quotes
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When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.
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It's a lot easier to write about people when you're not living with them!
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I didn't start running because somebody asked me to become a runner. Just like I didn't become a novelist because someone asked me to. One day, out of the blue, I wanted to write a novel. And one day, out of the blue, I started to run-simply because I wanted to. I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change.
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I came to write after several mini careers. I did live theatre, managed a cosmetics store and was a local television personality.
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Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing.
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I don't think you should write something as long as a novel around anything that is not of the gravest concern to you and everybody else and for me this is always the conflict between an attraction for the Holy and the disbelief in it that we breathe in with the air of the times.
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That's just the music industry. They always want you to write something like the one that was popular.
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If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills.
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'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.
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For me, the guitar was just a tool to make songs. I started when I was 10 - I learned what I had to learn to get my ideas across. I always felt I was a weak guitar player, but now I realize with the finger-picking stuff, I actually know how to do what I do with my songs, but I couldn't step in and be an overall guitar player. But my guitar playing has always been driven by the need to write songs.
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There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography.
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A lot of people write and tell us what The B-52s meant to them - straight, straight-A students, those who were a little awkward, weren't always the ones who fit in. People have told us that just having us and our music was beyond important and really made me feel that what we were doing was worth something big.
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We speak naturally but spend all our lives trying to write naturally.
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I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.
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All this is rather pretentious and fey to even talk about, but Flannery O'Connor sat down to write stories. The rest of us, some of us, don't have that kind of wit and genius. We don't do that. We sit down and have some accidents.
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I have this rule: It's like, if you write an amazing, cool song that you mean and then you go put your leather pants on and sing it in front of people; that's OK. But if you put your leather pants on and stand in front of the mirror and go, "Ok, I've got to write a song to fit these pants," then you're in trouble.
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I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L.A.
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By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware.
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I've always asked to be able to speak and write about injustice and to do it in a way that would encourage people to make things better for everyone.
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I don't go into any album with pressing issues. I just try to write songs.
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I write any sort of rubbish which will cover the main outlines of the story, then I can begin to see it.
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... every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.
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I don't write music for critics or hipsters. I write for me.
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I'd love to say that I could write political songs, but I don't feel clued-up enough.
