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Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see…
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The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
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We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.
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Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing.
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You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.
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We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate…
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Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the…
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Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them…
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I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,…
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I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a realist writer,…
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I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come…
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At the time I begin writing a novel, the last thing I want to do is follow a plot outline. To know…
— Elmore Leonard
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Today when I begin writing I’m aware: something that I don’t understand drives this engine.
— Donald Hall
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I've done that quite often, but I've got to be quite honest... as much as you would want to only do one…
— Trevor Rabin
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I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before…
— Mercedes Lackey
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Unless you loosen the hold that your past has on you, your future will unfold in much the same way . .…
— David Simon
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When I stopped trying to write songs, that's when I'm able to begin writing songs. You have to just use your life,…
— Lenny Kravitz
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I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously.
— Jonathan Lethem
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It's usually easier for me to begin writing in a character's voice if that person is different from me in some significant…
— Nell Freudenberger
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Normally I begin writing a song with just with aim to express something, and sometimes I don't know what I want to…
— Lianne La Havas
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Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That…
— Annie Dillard
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I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to…
— Mark Twain
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