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If there is any message in the 'Wimpy Kid' books, it is that reading can be and should be fun. As an adult reader, when I see an obvious moral lesson to be taught, I run in the other direction... Kids can sniff out an adult agenda from an early age. I'm writing for entertainment, not to impress literary judges.

Age Fun Writing Reading Direction

I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the formal aspects of their work.

Alain de Botton

Work I Am Me Writing Attention Pay

I've been writing pop songs for pop stars for a couple years and see what their lives are like, and that's just not something I want.

Stars Writing Want Years See Been

I find that I do my best work at the beginning of the day, but I'm rarely in a writing mood when I sit down. I'm usually somewhat sleep-deprived, and I always have a long list of other responsibilities calling my name.

Work Best Day Beginning Writing

Sometimes in writing you have difficult periods and then other times it just flows.

Writing You Sometimes Difficult Just

Writing is a puzzle you'll spend your lifetime unlocking. You will never know it all; you will never know enough. You can always be better, and figuring out how to be better is part of the thrill and joy of the job.

Job Joy Writing Puzzle Better You

I am of the opinion that I am not a political writer, and, moreover, that as far as true literature is concerned, there actually are no political writers. I think that my writing is no more political than ancient Greek theatre. I would have become the writer I am in any political regime.

I Am Writing Theatre Opinion Think

The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club?

Jerry Pournelle

Writing Better Roses Chair Down

There's a beautiful, kind of seductive trap in being autobiographical in our writing of songs: We just get stuck in our own syrup, and it's so personal that it almost can be embarrassing to the listener.

Beautiful Writing Kind Personal Own

I have fun writing. I don't make it a chore. I don't have to struggle with it.

Struggle Fun Writing Have Fun Chore

I write the occasional entry for the 'Times' Theatre blog, especially when I'm in London and seeing two shows a day, but I don't tweet. I don't want to have to express my opinion in 140 characters. That's like writing haiku. You need a certain amount of legroom to review a play properly.

Day Writing Theatre Opinion You

The premise of Nossiter in 'Mondovino' would have been a lot more accurate when I started writing about wine in 1978 than when the movie was made in 2003. When I started, I was enormously critical of California wines, and I thought the entire wine industry was on a real slippery slope.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

Writing Thought Wine More California

Writing a song is so personal. You have to have trust in someone you're working with; otherwise, you're not gonna come out with something that's really you.

Trust Writing Song Someone You Out

Writing is mentally stimulating; it's like a puzzle that makes you think all the time.

Stephanie Zimbalist

Time Writing Puzzle Think You Like

I come to writing from hearing great stories as a child in Louisiana, where the mark of a person was his or her ability to be a raconteur. I also come to writing as a professional actress whose body has been trained to listen and smell and inhabit characters without judgment.

Great Child Writing Body Person

I think my writing is part of my ministry.

Writing Think I Think Ministry Part

I have no credentials. I have no money. I literally come from a poor place. I was a servant. I dropped out of college. The next thing you know I'm writing for the 'New Yorker,' I have this sort of life, and it must seem annoying to people.

Jamaica Kincaid

Life Money People College Writing

What makes my work my own is where I'm writing from. And I feel like I have a million stories to write about Chicago.

Work Writing Feel Chicago My Own

There is a huge difference between writing a book, which is a private activity I engage in with myself, and wanting to engage in overly intimate personal conversations with strangers, which I pretty much never want to do.

Myself Writing Book Strangers Want

My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug to write also.

Son Me Writing Trying Kind Write

Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind. My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008 was approaching, and I was constantly aware of how little I had managed to accomplish.

Birthday Mind Writing End Lose Gone

There's no getting around it: Writing is hard, while working with young performers is nearly always a joy.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Joy Writing Young Hard Always While

My writing voice is very much like 'Thank You for Smoking.' It's a guy's voice. It's very masculine.

Writing Voice Thank You Smoking You

Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me. There's that little bit that holds on: 'Well, I'm almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.'

Life Spiritual Me Writing Atheist

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