Write Quotes
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My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
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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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When I was 14, I would sit up in my room and write till my eyes would bleed.
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I write novels and other things.
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I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.
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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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Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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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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What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.
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To write, you need to find what you love.
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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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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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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
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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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I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.
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Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.
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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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I would still give my left ball to write anything as good as OK Computer.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life. She's like, 'I can't read, I can't write; I can tell you who I was working for, and I can tell you the year, but who was president?'
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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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Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an e-mail.
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A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
