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William T. Vollmann Quote: 'Don't write for money. ...'

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Profession: Novelist
Nationality: American
Birthday: July 28, 1959

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When I write, I make decent money doing it, but I don't wake up dreaming about writing.

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I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me.

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I like all music. Well, I don't like music that was created to make money. I don't really like bands that don't write their own music.

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Everybody makes money for a living, but most of us actually do something that has a point, in addition to just making money. We examine and treat patients, we teach students, we draw up contracts and wills, we write for newspapers, magazines, and web sites, we clean floors, or we serve meals.

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I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.

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I live making comics. Comics is an industrial art but less suffering, because comics are for young people who are more adventurous. I do that. I live off comics, and then I write books, but when you want movies, you cannot make movies without money.

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When I moved to Los Angeles, I wrote spec screenplays. I was really poor, and I thought I was just gonna do this for a while to make a little money so I could write novels. I thought movies were a second-class art form. I condescended to it - I didn't know enough to know it was really gonna be hard.

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I've been writing plays since the seventies and only came to moviemaking when I basically realized that I needed some money to pay the rent. I started to watch films with an eye to figuring out how to write them.

John Patrick Shanley

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To bring down your credit card balances, write down the benefits of reducing your debt. No more gnawing feeling that you're throwing money away, perhaps. More money flowing to other financial objectives. Then consult the list when you have doubts.

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I write what I write.

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I write very slowly.

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There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write.

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I can write anywhere. I write in airports. I write on airplanes. I've written in the back seats of taxis. I write in hotel rooms. I love hotel rooms. I just write wherever I am whenever I need to write.

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I write music. I'm in a band.

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I write fast. I'm one of the lucky ones.

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I write to explore something that fascinates me, and I write the way I do because it is the only way I know how to write.

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I write contemporary rock with Jane's. And I also write house music with people like Kascade.

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Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing.

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I write my songs because I've lived them.

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I'm one of the idiots that negotiates after I write.

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