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At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to sit down and write my first novel. I had never written anything longer than a couple of pages till then and was foolishly attempting to write a hundred-thousand words.

Family Words Down Never Write First

Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is a rather rough translation of the book they'd intended to write.

Michael Cunningham

Book Admit Will Write Secret Honest

I didn't write to become a director, which many people do.

Richard LaGravenese

People Become Write Director Many

I have great stories. I am going to write a book.

Great I Am Book Write Going Stories

I've often said to young songwriters when they want to write with me, 'Let's take a stab at ten songs, and we might get one really good one.'

Good Me Said Young Want Write

My size is an asset to me. People write roles for me. If I was just another blond-haired, brown-eyed, 18-year-old actor, I'd be left unrecognized. People remember me.

Josh Ryan Evans

People Me Remember Actor Write Size

The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just write about things that are entertaining to myself.

Chuck Klosterman

Myself Fun Me Writing Book Write

I love short stories, but I've never had the impulse to write one. Same for ghost stories.

John Lanchester

Love Short Never Write Same Ghost

I didn't write anything until I was well over 30.

Penelope Lively

Write Over Anything Well Until

I don't really have an office or anything, and I like to have to move location every two hours. So I just kind of write in a park, on a bench, in the library, in a cafe, back to the library, that kind of thing.

Library Back Kind Write Office Cafe

Women writers are often conflated with their narrators - as if we can't consciously construct fictional worlds from the ground up and can only write diary entries.

Women Diary Write Ground Up Only

I was 35 when I started taking classes at Ohio University. After I got my degree, I kept working at the mill. When I was 45, I decided I was going to try to learn how to write short stories.

Donald Ray Pollock

Short Learn Try Write University

You never write a catchphrase; you never write something and say, 'This is going to be a catchphrase.' You just write the show, and then in the course of the show, somebody says something, and for some reason it gets a laugh.

Laugh You Say Never Write Reason

I was never born to write. I was taught to write. And I am still being taught to write.

I Am Born Never Write Being Still

I write puzzles and mysteries. Nothing too highfalutin.

Michael Connelly

Nothing Write Puzzles Too I Write

I wanted to write music, and cook, and play cards, and have a nice time.

Richard Rodney Bennett

Music Time Cards Play Nice Write

Penmanship means a lot to me. I don't have cursive penmanship, though. I've created my own penmanship. It's very clear. Everyone can read it. I write things down all day long.

Day Me Long Down My Own Write

A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.

Me Research Plan Year Dream Write

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.

Work Travel I Am More Write Degree

I will never write a sequel to anything that I will ever write.

Chuck Palahniuk

Will Never Write Anything Ever

I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.

Love Good Music Song Easy Write

Making sentences is what I do. I mean, the story will come as I write.

Story Will Mean Write Come Making

I love hip hop, and I have a bunch of urban songs I write for fun that I can't put on my albums because people would laugh and point.

Love Fun People Laugh Write Point

Anyone who tries to write a memoir needs to keep in mind that what's interesting to you isn't necessarily interesting to a reader.

Mind Interesting You Write Memoir

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