Write Quotes
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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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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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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I know one thing - very few writers in Southern California get to write what they want to write. We are more or less worker ants, working for either film companies or tv companies or Internet companies. We do a lot of assigned work. Feelings hardly ever enter into it. If they do, they tend to be on a sort of soap opera level.
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Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what saves me. And it did. I would write my way out of any kind of depressing period.
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I write to escape; to escape poverty.
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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 wanted to write about the things that I love.
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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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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.
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My method is, I just sit down and write a book.
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His Majesty the King requires that the Royal Chancellery in all written documents endeavor to write in clear, plain Swedish.
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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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I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.
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The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
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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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I wasn't trained as a writer-director. And the projects I write are difficult to finish.
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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 get glimpses into future novels.
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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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It's hard to write a comedy sketch.
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I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.
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I have a nice little movie career, and I write plays and do my act.
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Do you all have a living room floor or a bedroom floor? Then you can write a book.
