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My mom was a single mom, and she had enough on her plate. I knew when I was doing something I wasn't supposed to, and I tried to keep her from finding out about it. I did a pretty good job of that.
Jason Aldean
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Because I've a track record of talking about books I never write, in Australia they think I'm about to write a book about Jane Austen. Something I said at some festival.
Kate Atkinson
I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
E. L. Doctorow
Tags: You Me Just
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I don't set out to write about spirituality; I am free to do something different every time.


Paulo Coelho
Tags: Time About Out
When I started doing music full time, I figured out my job wasn't something I needed to be completely sober for.
Brantley Gilbert
Tags: Time Music Out
I notice that students, particularly for gay students, it's too easy to write about my last trick or something. It's not very interesting to the reader.
Thom Gunn
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If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.


Barry Mann
Tags: Good Out Life
I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.
Robert Crais
We're only on the earth for a short period of time. Movies aren't enough. I want to take my success and parlay it into something bigger and better.
Paul Walker
Tags: Time Movies Want
If you leave your wife and you don't ever contact her again, that says something about how you felt about the marriage.
H. G. Bissinger
There's something about the idea of writing, and thinking about writing as a form of prayer - the way as a writer you call out into the world and throw your words into the world. You're not praying to a god, but you're almost conjuring a reader to arrive. That's what books do: they're an invitation to readers.
Ruth Ozeki
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If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.


Al Yankovic
Tags: Good People Out
I would say if you want to write, write what you care about. I think that's the most important thing. I think if you write what you care about, you stand a better chance of having the reader care about your story.
Jerry Spinelli
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I can't write the same book over and over again... let it go, once it's gone!


Jane Gardam
Tags: Go Over Same
Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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'Finally' actually started out as a poem. I always wrote poetry, and pretty soon I figured out that if I could write poems, I could write songs.
CeCe Peniston
Tags: Poetry Out Always
If I hadn't read all of Jane Austen and DH Lawrence, Tolstoy and Proust, as well as the more fun stuff, I wouldn't know how to break bad news, how to sympathise, how to be a friend or a lover, because I wouldn't have any idea what was going on in anybody else's mind.
Sebastian Faulks
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Sidney Poitier was directing a film called 'Hanky Panky.' And he said, 'Do you want to come with me to New York to see Gilda Radner in 'Lunch Hour' on Broadway? I said, 'I don't need to see her, I love her. I've wanted to write something for her for a long time. So it's OK by me.'
Gene Wilder
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I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in.
Tracy Kidder
Tags: Time You Really
I'm completely cricketed out. If I never have to write another word about cricket again, I'll be a happy man.
Joseph O'Neill
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