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To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of…

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I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's…
Joseph Campbell said the privilege of a lifetime is being yourself. That's his feeling. And I guess it's mine too.
We all experience many freakish and unexpected events - you have to be open to suffering a little. The philosopher Schopenhauer talked…
You have a moral obligation to finish the job you said you would do.
To find a good story, you're generally going to find it in independent or lower budget movies... I wouldn't mind doing a…
You can't really divorce yourself and your life from the world you live in.
In other words, I’m against cheating, greed, cruelty, racism, imperialism, religious fundamentalism, treason, and the seemingly limitless capacity for hypocrisy shown by…
I mean, any movie or story that makes you accept and be grateful for something about your life is doing something right.
I was born in New York but as a baby moved to Venezuela and Argentina. I've also lived in Denmark, where my…
As you get older, you get stuck in your ways; just as you become stiffer physically, you also become stiffer mentally and…
Having a mixed background and feeling a little bit like a fish out of water in most places can be a benefit.
I look at my job as looking at the world from points of view that are different from mine - sometimes radically…

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I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers. — A. S. Byatt
Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone. — Emile M. Cioran
The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that… — Harlan Coben
I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everybody speaks.… — Beryl Bainbridge
My own eyes are not enough for me...I will see through the eyes of others. Reality, even seen through the eyes of… — C.S. Lewis
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The best thing about conceptual poetry is that it doesn’t need to be read. You don’t have to read it. As a… — Kenneth Goldsmith
Why do I write historical fiction? Johnny Tremain, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Island of the Blue Dolphins-that's why. I'll never forget… — Unknown Author
I think the reason working-class people don't write books is because they are encouraged to believe that only certain people are permitted… — Len Deighton
Why don't you write books people can read?(to her husband James) — Nora Barnacle
We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it. — Peter Drucker
Many poets write books. They'll tell you: Well, I've got my next book, but there are two poems I need to write,… — Sharon Olds

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