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Related When you pick up a book, everyone knows it's imaginary. You don't have to pretend it's n... PAUL AUSTER I don't think there's much point in bemoaning the state of the world unless there's some... PETER SINGER You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know a... ABRAHAM A. RIBICOFF I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reaso... PATRICK DUFFY I love to write a book out of questions; in fact, I think it's the only way my writing can opera... KATE GRENVILLE I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand peop... ANN HOOD I thought, well I can do that. I couldn't be bothered writing a book review, because I'd hav... EDDIE CAMPBELL Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't ... HILARY MANTEL I like the quiet it takes to pursue an idea the way I pursued 'Hamilton,' but I couldn't... LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actu... CHRIS MATTHEWS I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a boo... GEORGE MURRAY You don't have to be the biggest, tallest, strongest guy to do whatever you want to do. You can ... NATE ROBINSON Never think you can't do something. I definitely never thought I could write a book, and even af... CONNOR FRANTA I don't want to think that anything is off limits for me to write about, but I also don't wa... J. D. SOUTHER When I get moved to write a story, I don't question the story. I dive right in, and I try to ign... DAVID BERGEN When you're reading a book, you're always looking for the natural place to stop. With a movi... DAVID NICHOLLS I tend to write things and don't go the next step and try to get it published. I don't want ... ROBERT HUNTER I cannot just write a frivolous book, a la-di-da book. Everything isn't la-di-da. There is somet... SHARON CREECH I think most fiction writers naturally start by writing short stories, but some of us don't. Whe... ANDREA BARRETT I write the occasional entry for the 'Times' Theatre blog, especially when I'm in London... BEN BRANTLEY I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to b... SARA GRUEN What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the... HARLAN COBEN If you're playing a negative character, sooner or later it rubs off on you. Some people don'... ALAN ARKIN How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't... ORNETTE COLEMAN 'Somnia' is a story about loss and, I guess, what you're willing to do to have closure a... KATEE SACKHOFF Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, ... KAREN THOMPSON WALKER It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a m... MAYA ANGELOU My main piece of advice would be don't worry about being published - just write a really good bo... DAVID LEVITHAN If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into ... PATRICIA MCCORMICK I'm more of a homebody. I'm constantly asked: 'Why don't we see you out?' But th... KRISTEN BELL There is pressure when you have a very big book like 'Shadow Divers' to follow up with somet... ROBERT KURSON Taking dishes straight off the restaurant's menu and putting them into a cookbook doesn't wo... MARCUS SAMUELSSON There's never really been a time when vampires weren't so over that you would be crazy to wr... HOLLY BLACK When I write, I have a sort of secret kinship of readers in all countries who don't know each ot... TEJU COLE Having been an actor in Hollywood for a certain amount of time, I always felt a pressure to be sort ... JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL Don't let anyone discourage you from writing. If you become a professional writer, there are ple... JANE YOLEN I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope... PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I always swore I would never write a book. But I read Clare Balding's and it was really interest... JENNIFER SAUNDERS There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearingho... AARON SORKIN You can't delete racism. It's like a cigarette. You can't stop smoking if you don't ... MARIO BALOTELLI As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately goin... DANIEL RADCLIFFE Often, if there's something that I want to do, but somehow can't get myself to do, it's ... GRETCHEN RUBIN A lot of people have said to me, 'That's a great idea, running for president. You'll get... JOHN BOLTON Jean Thompson's short-story collection 'Who Do You Love' is a beautiful book, but a hell... JEFF GILES I don't want to ever write a book that seems like it's pandering to younger people or talkin... RANSOM RIGGS There are a couple of things that I'm sure people don't think are important, but I do. I don... AARON SPELLING We have all met people that act 'old' or think a number makes them old, and I truly don'... TABATHA COFFEY I don't think there is anything particularly wrong in hitting a woman, though I don't recomm... SEAN CONNERY If you're writing a book that takes place in New York in the moment, you can't not write abo... RICHARD PRICE Certain kinds of people will always have an issue with my music. But that's fine; it's OK. I... KACEY MUSGRAVES I don't despise 'Don Quixote,' but it is a book I don't... get. I'll have to com... HELEN OYEYEMI You won't see me writing about particle physics, or even planetary geology, or chemistry. I prac... MARY ROACH I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don'... SHEL SILVERSTEIN I eat healthy when I can; I eat a burger when I want, and I work out. You have to live with the rout... GIGI HADID It's amazing that I can inspire little kids to know that you can be short or tall, and your body... SIMONE BILES Sometimes there's a sense of closing yourself off on a shoot, and I try not to do that. Sometime... BRUCE WEBER What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you ... ADRIAN LYNE I don't have any sense or urgency about any of my writing, actually. I don't think mankind w... LEONARD COHEN I don't do a comic book thinking there is a movie. I just want it to be as good a comic book as ... FRANK MILLER The world would have been a better place if some men had just shut their mouths. BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA A writer is a thought smith; he educates men to think for themselves BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Don't live in the past. There's no point. You can't change anything. What a waste of tim... BOB NEWHART When I sit down to write, I don't think, 'OK, what is the next David O. Russell film I can w... MATTHEW QUICK When I'm getting ready for a movie, let's just say my diet is 'The Antisocial Diet.'... JASON STATHAM You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers ... RAY BRADBURY Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do a... RALPH FIENNES I'm trying to convey to my audience that you really can't judge a book by its cover, and the... ADAM LAMBERT I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every bo... SUE GRAFTON I admire people's marriages, and I think it's a wonderful thing to have, but I don't thi... LINDA RONSTADT When I would see my friends with their kids, I was envious that you can use children to get out of j... KEVIN NEALON Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can&... MICHAEL DOUGLAS I once joked in a book that there are three things you can't do in life. You can't beat the ... BILL BRYSON Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try. FRAN LEBOWITZ I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film... SAMANTHA MORTON It's really hard to write personal songs. I'm not good at writing ditties because as far as ... EMILY ROBISON I'm just going to be myself; there's no reason for me to try and go out there and put a cert... PAIGE VANZANT The internet is killing the art of writing. The big "publish" button begs you to publish even before... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I'm never going to write a book like Anthony Sher did, you know, 'The Broadcaster Prepares.&... TERRY WOGAN I don't see that my age has anything to do with what is between the covers of my book, any more ... ELEANOR CATTON I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't k... JACKIE COLLINS I didn't want to do a book just to do a book. I wanted to do a book that, if you should read it,... BOBBY ORR I don't have any feeling of accomplishment about anything unless there's a lot of risk to it... MARIO ANDRETTI I try to really capitalize off of what other rappers really can't do. There are opportunities th... DRAKE I don't have a 'Life's short, play hard' type of philosophy. That's about fear. ... ERIKA CHRISTENSEN Before you have kids, you're like, 'I hope I don't die on this plane,' or, 'I ho... LAKE BELL I don't write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but that'... AUGUST WILSON In the case of 'Ocean at the End of the Lane,' it's a book about helplessness. It's ... NEIL GAIMAN I wrote a book on grace, and grace is a free gift, but to receive the gift you have to have your han... PHILIP YANCEY We live in capitalism, and capitalism is defined by the production line, and the production line is ... WALTER MOSLEY I hate politics. I like to write about it, but to get involved in it, to try and make a lot of ignor... WILBUR SMITH I think if you have ability and talent in one way, you have it in all ways. I'm not a jack of al... EVEL KNIEVEL Age focuses you. You are much better concentrated. There's more time when you travel less, don... JIM HARRISON When you're a guest star on a movie or a TV show, I always say it's like being invited to a ... ATO ESSANDOH I don't really have a type. I don't want to be a cliche. 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