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As a writer, I have this compulsion to take characters who appear formidable and bombard them with adversity until they crumble. What's interesting is watching them rise again, and seeing how they've changed and grown, if indeed they have.
Jean Hanff Korelitz
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I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.


Matthew Vaughn
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That's why I love being a writer. My imagination can take me places I may never see except in my mind's eye.
Pearl Cleage
I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do.
Richard Price
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I try not to do bad, but sometimes it's irresistible.


Jackee Harry
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The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.


Bela Lugosi
I guess, when I left university, I liked the idea of being a writer, and I thought then that being a writer really meant that you were a novelist. But if one of the impulses for being a novelist is wanting to be a storyteller, I never had any urge to tell stories.
Geoff Dyer
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I always wanted to find oil. It was always an irresistible calling.


Harold Hamm
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While war is never anyone first choice, sometimes it is a necessary choice.


Gresham Barrett
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I'm not an exhibitionist; I don't have a compulsion to share the ins and outs of my daily life with a public audience.
Casey Neistat
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I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.


Dan Simmons
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You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual. Most of them are mangled and even have made up stuff in them, that is to say, made up stuff by the writer or editor.
Frank Black
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It was never really my choice to be an action heroine.


Izabella Scorupco
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.


Irwin Shaw
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It's destiny that pushed me towards showbiz. I wanted to start off as a technician, but out of compulsion, I became an actor.
Pawan Kalyan
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I was always attracted and repelled by the idea of being a writer.


Louis Theroux
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I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.


Gustave Moreau
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I spent 20 years of my career primarily being a writer for hire.


Frank Darabont
'Catholic writer' seems like you have an agenda of evangelization, as if you were somehow influenced in your choice of perspective by dogma or canon law. That has nothing to do with me. I don't have a lot in common with other 'Catholic' writers.
Mary Gordon
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When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family. My father had always identified himself as a writer to my mother when they met. When they met, he was writing this great novel, there was no doubt about it.
Nick Flynn