Write Quotes
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That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.
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You just never know if people out there will relate to things when you write them; it matters to you, and to some people it doesn't. Some people are 'I'm not in the mood for that; thanks.'
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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 don't want to write, I'd rather draw.
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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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When you write, you're inside the project. You can't really think about the reception. It has to be worth it even if no one reads it.
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I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the idea of Scientologists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert Kirk Cameron.
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They can sonically sound like me, but nobody's ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. There's only one of those.
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The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
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I don't think of myself as Scottish or lesbian when I sit down and write. I am glad I have broken out of that limited audience.
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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 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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I really wanted to be a cartoonist, and I was in 4th or 5th grade and I would bring my drawings in, and I'd look around, and everyone could draw better than me. Everyone. My drawings were just awful. So that's why I had to write.
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I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.
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I think my characters with my fingers, I think my characters with my guts. But when I say I think them, that is what I do, I feel them with the sympathetic neurons and I work out with my brain what it is that I am trying to write about, or I can't do it.
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One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read 'Matilda.' I wrote my own version and my teacher had it bound and permitted me to read it to the class - cementing my love of reading, writing and Roald Dahl!
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If I write something, and I'm going to put in all that love and energy, I want to direct it.
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One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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If you can write it, I can be it.
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I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.
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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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It took me ten minutes to write this very sentence. I'm no writer. This is not my calling.
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I'm not the guy to ask to write a sequel.
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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.
