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“We should be writing more great roles for women, period. Another problem is that movies are generally made for 14-year-old boys, and 14-year-old boys want to watch 25-year-old action heroes.”

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Author:James Mangold

“With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.”

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Author:Walter Dean Myers

“Most of the people who write to me are really clever, really engaged. They just want to say that they have read my book and liked it.”

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Author:Denise Mina

“I used to be an editor and I was editing young adult series. I didn't really like the books that I was reading, so I decided that I would write a book about something I'd want to read if I was 16. It turned into a Cinderella story... I developed a proposal and the characters of 'Gossip Girl' for my job.”

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Author:Cecily von Ziegesar

“I find writing extremely difficult. I usually have to drag myself to my desk, mainly because I doubt myself. And it's getting harder because I want to improve with every book.”

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Author:Markus Zusak

“I'm used to always being different, in any context. People always want to know how I grew up, so I just say I grew up Muslim. That's the truth. Two Muslim girls can write me two extremely different letters - and they do. Some are very supportive, and some question what I do.”

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Author:Noureen DeWulf

“I'd love to be an artist always, but if no one wants me, I'd love to write songs for other people, be a manager, nurture new talent.”

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Author:Adele

“I doubt I'll be singing forever, because at some point people aren't going to want to hear my music, and I hope that I'll still get the opportunity to write songs.”

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Author:Adele

“You almost have to create situations in order to write about them, so I live in a constant state of self-imposed poverty. I don't want to live any other way.”

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Author:Tom Waits

“As far as I'm concerned, I'm a writer who's writing books, and therefore, I don't want to die. You'd miss the end of the book, wouldn't you? You can't die with an unfinished book.”

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Author:Terry Pratchett

“Any young, aspiring musicians out there, if music is what you want to do, if music is what you love and your passion. It doesn't take a fragrance, it's not about the tabloids, it's about you putting in the work, practicing every day, practicing your vocals, practicing your instrument, practicing songwriting. Hopefully one day you write the song the whole world wants to get down to. I promise you, if you go out there and sing and you put your heart and soul into it and you follow your dream, one day you're going to be sitting next to Ellen DeGeneres talking about how you broke records and rocked the Super Bowl.”

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Author:Bruno Mars

“Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.”

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Author:Vikram Seth

“It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.”

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Author:Guy Gavriel Kay

“I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories at that time, but very infrequently. I quit my job just to quit. I didn’t quit my job to write fiction. I just didn’t want to work anymore”

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Book:Conversations with Don DeLillo

Source: Conversations with Don DeLillo

“I write because I want to end my loneliness. Books make people less alone. That, before and after everything else, is what books do. They show us that conversations are possible across distances.”

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Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“The way I feel about every book is this: you don't finish it, you abandon it. All of my books have in some sense failed, otherwise I wouldn't write another one. If I wrote the perfect book, I wouldn't have to write again, and I wouldn't want to. That's not true for everyone, but it's true for me. I could walk away then. But so far I haven't managed to do it.”

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Author:Russell Banks

“I let people say and write what they want.”

People Want Writing

Author:Ruud van Nistelrooy

“If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.”

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Author:Shereen El Feki

“The funny thing about me is I'm kind of schizophrenic, because after four or five nights in a row of going out to parties, I just have to be alone. I hate people and feel like they're keeping me from what I really want to do, like write a fabulous novel, which I probably never will.”

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Author:Bob Colacello

“In our office, we have a whiteboard with all of our ideas and things we want to write on it - great ideas we have that we haven't had the time to get around to yet.”

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Author:Erich Hoeber

“You go from these high hopes when you're writing to just a desperate want of not making a complete fool of yourself by the end of it.”

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Author:Rian Johnson

“I don't want to do children's music. I write kids songs, but the kids songs I write are for my kids - like when I'm putting them to bed. We sing some song that we made up but I don't want to make a record like that.”

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Author:Black Francis

“I think that most people who write about music just want to fill some paper. They're not really interested in getting to the heart of something. Otherwise, they wouldn't write what they write.”

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Author:Tim Gane

“The writing has been on the wall for some years now, but we are a nation illiterate in the language of the wall. The writing just gets bigger. Something will eventually bring down the charming, infuriating naïveté of Americans that allows us our blithe consumption and cheerful ignorance of the secret ugliness that bring us whatever we want.”

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Book:Small Wonder

Source: Small Wonder

“I start with fear. It comes in so many forms. When I write, some of the fear goes away. So I write into the fear, and even more dissipates. I want to be scared while writing. I want to bring it to the surface so I can banish it.”

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Author:Mat Johnson

“It is a little out of touch to presume that someone wants to follow your every observation and insight over the course of hundreds of pages without any sort of payoff. That's why writing isn't a one-way street. You have to give something back: an interesting plot, a surprise, a laugh, a moment of tenderness, a mystery for the reader to piece together.”

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Author:Christopher Bollen

“I have a thing - I call it magic - but I feel like I can write stuff down in the middle of the night and wake up and it happens. I write what I want in my journal.”

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Author:Ester Dean

“I feel guilty because I want to act more than I want to write songs. I'm a person who likes to transition; I like to grow.”

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Author:Ester Dean

“You don't want to watch classics with me 'cause I'm constantly writing notes.”

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Author:M. Night Shyamalan

“One day I want to write a full-on horror book.”

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Author:Christopher Bollen

“I'm not Akira Kurosawa. He used to write...He used to write a completely new spec script over a couple of nights. I'm not like that. It takes me a long time to put a film together that I want to make.”

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Author:Duncan Jones

“I had self-doubt about whether my story was interesting to people. I didn't want to write something that was anecdotal. It was important to me that people would get something out of my book. I want people to read it and say, "Now I don't feel so alone," or "I'm going to remember that next time I'm being an asshole."”

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Author:Lizz Winstead

“Write a smart joke and people want to talk about it and keep the dialogue going. Also, if you can make someone laugh, it's a pronouncement that they like you on some level.”

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Author:Lizz Winstead

“I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story.”

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Author:Willa Cather

“I don't want to write without a sense of drama, without passion, or without both eyes open to the world around me.”

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Author:Gloria Naylor

“Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

“If you told me to write a love song tonight, I'd have a lot of trouble. But if you tell me to write a love song about a girl with a red dress who goes into a bar and is on her fifth martini and is falling off her chair, that's a lot easier, and it makes me free to say anything I want.”

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Author:Stephen Sondheim

“All I want is a modest place in Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, and that new edition of One Thousand Best Bits of Recent Prose.”

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Book:Ego 5: Again More of the Autobiography of James Agate

Source: Ego 5: Again More of the Autobiography of James Agate

“As an artist you're looking for universal triggers. You want it both ways. You want it to have an immediate impact, and you want it to have deep meanings as well. I'm striving for both. But I hate it when people write things that sound like they've swallowed a f... dictionary.”

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Author:Damien Hirst

“Write down everything you want to do with your life and then spend the next 25 years doing them.”

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Author:Robert De Niro

“It's all the unwordable things one wants to write about, just as it's all the unformable things one wants to paint - essence.”

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Book:Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

“everyone who is human has something to express. Try not expressing yourself for twenty-four hours and see what happens. You will nearly burst. You will want to write a long letter, or draw a picture, or sing, or make a dress or a garden.”

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Book:If You Want to Write

Source: If You Want to Write

“Preparation is not only about managing external risks, but about limiting the likelihood that you'll unwittingly add to them. When you're the author of your own fate, you don't want to write a tragedy. Aside from anything else, the possibility of a sequel is nonexistent.”

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Book:An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

Source: An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

“I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection.”

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Author:Neil Gaiman

“I don't know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make me aware that somebody was writing the book I was reading - these wonderful parenthetical asides to the reader.”

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Author:Neil Gaiman

“Despite the fact that I had a writing background, they didn't want to accept whatever ideas I had as a writer.”

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Author:John Amos

“I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.”

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Author:Zach Galifianakis

“Over the next four days, I want you to write about your deepest emotions and thoughts about the most upsetting experience in your life. Really let go and explore your feelings and thoughts about it. In your writing, you might tie this experience to your childhood, your relationship with your parents, people you have loved or love now or even your career. How is this experience related to who you would like to become, who you have been in the past, or who you are now?.”

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Author:James W. Pennebaker

“[Writing is] largely a matter of application and hard work, or writing and rewriting endlessly until you are satisfied that you have said what you want to say as clearly and simply as possible. For me that usually means many, many revisions.”

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Book:The house of life: Rachel Carson at work

Source: The house of life: Rachel Carson at work

“If I want to pursue the art of painting - or music or writing or sculpture - it requires only my time and a few dollars for materials. If, however, I want to produce a motion picture I have to go out and raise a million dollars!”

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Author:Orson Welles

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