Write Quotes
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When I was 14, I would sit up in my room and write till my eyes would bleed.
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If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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I haven't really tried to write a movie. It's tough to get into that mode.
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
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What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.
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I would never write a sentence that didn't have a nice rhythm, or at least I wouldn't leave it to be published like that. It seems to me that prose mustn't be prosaic.
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People often write after they finish their career, or they don't play anymore, or they are not anymore active. So I say, why do that? And let's do it differently.
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I write novels and other things.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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'Jurassic Park' and 'Star Wars' shoved me into loving sci-fi and film in general when I was a barely coherent 3-year-old. And 'Lord of the Rings' took me to another planet entirely. Before that series, I knew I loved writing, but after, I knew that I had to write.
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The sad part about happy endings is there's nothing to write about.
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I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
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I'm really not a journalist, and I don't do a ton of newsy pieces. Occasionally I'll write about something that's going on recently, but I really don't do a ton of stuff that's tied to current events.
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Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.
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I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.
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It would be fun to write with Adele, actually. She seems like a fun girl to write with.
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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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All the stories I write come from someone I've met or some anecdote I've heard.
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Madeleine Albright introduced herself to me. I talked to Henry Kissinger and Barbara Walters. And I asked Peter Jennings to write a note of encouragement to my son, Logan, a news anchor at the ABC affiliate in Palm Springs.
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To write, you need to find what you love.
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I write, having seen what's happening already in my head. I see it as a movie, and I'm just writing down what's happening in front of me.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
