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I have a slogan I use when I get anxious writing, which happens quite a bit: ‘the ordeal is part of the commitment.’ It’s one of my mantras. It makes a lot of things doable.
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I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.
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I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage.
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I have great ideas, but the follow through is always really difficult for me. As my kid gets a little bit older, if I feel like I have a little bit more time on my hands, I'd like to get more into developing ideas and writing things.
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I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
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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 loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.
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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 about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.
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I only became a celebrity because I had a kid. Before I was pregnant nobody cared. I joke to my agent that having a baby made my career.
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I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
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I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.
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I really wish I knew what I was doing because I'd be writing hit songs every minute.
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I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.
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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18.
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I tend to be more of a novel writer. In fact, some of my novels started out as short stories, and I just got carried away! I think some of my best writing is in the short story form, but novels come more naturally to me.
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I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.
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I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.
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