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I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write.
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I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me.
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I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.
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I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
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I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.
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I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks. It's honesty with big melodies.
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I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen.
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I know I'm not going to write as well as I used to. I no longer have the stamina to endure the frustration. Writing is frustration - it's daily frustration, not to mention humiliation.
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I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write.
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I know what I'm going to write for the next three years. It's frustrating, because if I get a good new idea, I have to put it aside.
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I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.
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I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.
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I never think when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them well.
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I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.
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I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for string quartet, then one cannot deny that I have learned this directly from Mozart. And I am proud of it!
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I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.
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I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.
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