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In fiction you're not often writing about the typical; you are interested in outliers, the points of interest. Part of it comes from feeling I was the only Asian or person of colour... another part comes from my personality: I'm an introvert, and my usual survival mode in a large group is to stand by a wall and watch everybody.

Personality Writing Stand Survival

If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people.

Struggle Support People Writing More

I had started writing for 'Sports Illustrated,' which was really my dream job growing up. But the writing probably read like I was auditioning to write for 'Letterman' or '70s-era Carson.

Sports Job Growing Up Writing Dream

The most important thing for me is realism. I don't like writing which does somersaults on the page, and I'm no great fan of the hard work literary novel.

Work Hard Work Great Me Writing

There are some novelists who can get away with writing about sex - Philip Roth, Ian McEwan - but they are rare.

Writing Sex Rare Away Get Who

When I read 'Greenberg,' I had a really strong sense if I could be any kind of writer I wanted to be, I'd be this kind of writer. And I felt like, even in my experiences, what writing I had done, even on a small scale, when it was good, it shared some quality with it.

Good Quality Writing Small Strong

My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.

Grief Struggle Happy Writing Moments

In '98, I locked myself in my house, went out of my mind and wrote 25 songs. I rarely bathed during that period of writing, I sent out for food, I didn't really venture out of my house in three or four months. It was a hell of an experience.

Myself Food Experience Mind Writing

In writing 'A Portrait of Athens' I have attempted - rather impressionistically - to give a panorama of its present. But I have also brought in its past because I sincerely think that there is a continuity.

Past Writing Think Present Portrait

I would say just start writing. You've got to write every day. Copy someone that you like if you think that perhaps could become your sound, too. I did that with Hemingway, and I thought I was writing just like Hemingway. Then all of a sudden it occurred to me - he didn't have a sense of humor. I don't know anything he's written that's funny.

Funny Humor Day Me Writing Start

I can't go on Gawker. I actually think the writing is really funny, but there is a chance that somebody is undercutting me.

Zooey Deschanel

Funny Me Writing Chance Think Go

I'm not really a 'puppet' person in particular; I think they are very theatrical, and I've found different uses for them in shows, but my true interest is in writing Broadway musicals.

Writing Think Person True Different

I've been a list maker for years, even before I was a musician. I was always writing things down and kept long lists of things that would make good album titles and things like that. I'm constantly thinking in terms of songwriting.

Good Writing Thinking Long Down

Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I can understand that.

Poetry People Writing I Can Poet

It is my greatest wish to teach children what I now believe: that writing is not a burden but a joy.

Children Joy Writing Believe Wish

Writing a book is a long and difficult process for me. I'm a slow writer, so I spend the year with Elvis Cole and Joe Pike in my head. I was thinking about this the other day. I wrote the first book in 1987. Literally every day since that time, Elvis and Joe have been in my head. They're always there. I started these guys because I like them.

Time Day Me Writing Book Thinking

I stopped writing fiction the moment I started writing songs, and I miss it.

Moment Writing Fiction Miss Started

All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland.

Words Writing Feel Naked Keep Just

Writing is a mysterious process, and many ideas come from deep within the imagination, so it's very hard to say how characters come about. Mostly, they just happen.

Imagination Ideas Writing Deep Say

'Dreamsongs' allows me to show the scope of my writing - with personal commentary that puts the works in context and includes some autobiographical details intended to reveal how each piece came to be, what it represents, and how it has formed, or been informed by, my philosophy of writing.

George R. R. Martin

Me Writing Details Philosophy Reveal

Generally, I think most of my writing tends to have some kind of magical element to it. That's the way I can access the emotional life of the character.

Life Character Writing Think I Can

The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me.

Me Writing You True Need Because

The holy spirit means the invisible power of Jehovah, holy because he is holy. This power of Jehovah operated upon the minds of honest men who loved and who were devoted to righteousness, directing them in the writing of the Bible.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Power Men Writing Bible Loved Minds

I tend to push whatever is looking over my shoulder away when I am writing. It's once the box of books arrive that I say I'm going to be pilloried for this or that. But then you realize it's done, and there is nothing I can do. I'm proud of the book.

I Am Writing Looking Book Proud You

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