I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.
Philip Roth
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I don't write historical novels but novels that wonder, 'And what if it happened in this way and not in this other one?'
Alvaro Enrigue
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I just write mechanical things.
Barry Zito
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I could not write without my dog, Rhoda, a Lab-chow mix.
Mary Gordon
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Essentially, we wanted to be in one of Azazel's films, so the notion was we'd simply write an Azazel Jacobs movie ourselves, and then give it to him and be like, 'Right, here's you next film, now direct us. Go.'
Dolly Wells
YouGoNowWriteRightHim
I'm actually rather orderly, although the way that I write is not.
Joanna Trollope
WayWriteOrderlyRatherActually
I think I need the demons in order to write, but the demons have gone. It bothers me a lot. I've tried and tried, but I just can't seem to find a melody.
Brian Wilson
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I immerse myself in everything I write; I feel what my characters do. I suffer with them. I cry as I type, sometimes to the point that I can't see the screen.
Ann Aguirre
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I used to just write about my own apathy, but that youthful, apathetic way of looking at things grew thin as I got older.
Scott Weiland
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
Harland Williams
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I can still boss people around. I can still write. I can still read. I can still eat, and I can still have very strong views.
Tony Judt
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You feel undervalued when you write the kind of fiction I write.
Lisa Jewell
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I want Tom Clancy, the Maryland novelist, to write the story of the rest of my life.
Christopher Buckley
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Hmmm. I think a lot of people can write poems that are howls of anguish. I think I've probably written such things and then torn them up.
John Fuller
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I really desperately want to write and direct my own movie.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
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I can't write; I don't think I'm even particularly good at telling a writer what's good or what's missing. So, actually having someone who can do that is a godsend.
Stephen Frears
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I would get up at 3 in the morning and write. Or sometimes I would write at midnight. Or I would write when my child napped. It wasn't a burden. I was so enthused about what I was doing at the time that I really didn't mind.
Bebe Moore Campbell
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Most of the people I write about I'm still in touch with, so I would be loath to make up stuff about them.
Mary Karr
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I have suffered most of the things I write about - or my friends have.
Dolly Parton
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I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.
Jodi Picoult
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I am songwriter. I do compose the music of songs that I write in Bengali. But I've never thought of composing for a film. That's a different art altogether.
Arijit Singh
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I learned to knit in 2002, six months after my 5-year-old daughter, Grace, died suddenly from a virulent form of strep. I was unable to read or write, and friends suggested I take up knitting; almost immediately I fell under its spell.
Ann Hood
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The editor of a newspaper, who is an old friend, asked me to write a column. According to her, I cracked lame jokes all the time and read voraciously.
Twinkle Khanna
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I hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next.
Harper Lee
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