Write Quotes
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The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
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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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Mostly, I just write about feelings that people can relate to. Because, yeah, I don't know who I am, and this is not my sound forever... I'm a human, so hopefully, I will always develop.
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Generally, what adults want to know is my background, why I write what I write, and very personal insights that some say are inspiring.
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Write down everything you want to do with your life and then spend the next 25 years doing them.
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It's hard to write a comedy sketch.
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I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.
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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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My method is, I just sit down and write a book.
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I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
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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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When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.
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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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My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.
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I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing.
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I write to escape; to escape poverty.
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But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.
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Do you all have a living room floor or a bedroom floor? Then you can write a book.
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There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.
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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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The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.
