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The old adage is, 'Write what you know.' But if you only do that, your work becomes claustro... 
I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wante... 
I have decided that maybe I want to write when I grow up. I just don't know what I would write. 
Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ... 
What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me. 
You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. ... 
What I find remarkable is that so much of the 18th century literature that I read is more accessible... 
Do you believe based on the information that you had available, what you were saying at the road sho... 
Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you... 
If I knew what to do
... I am you... what am I going to do?"
I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunatel... 
They're about situations I've gone through being in a relationship. You won't hear me write a song a... 
When I sit down to write, I don't think, 'OK, what is the next David O. Russell film I can w... 
I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experime... 
I am what I am and, you know, I'm a very lucky guy. 
Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time. 
I don't agree with the sentiment 'write what you know.'... I think one should write what... 
Told me if I did not smell of the fire then I smelled of the frying pan. 
It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write. 
Do what you love doing. 
Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to c... 
He thought himself awake when he was already asleep. He saw the stars above his face, whirling on th... 
I am so happy that I didn't go to school and I didn't have anyone to tell me how to position... 
I would say if you want to write, write what you care about. I think that's the most important t... 
What I like to write about is stuff I know. I don't think I could write a novel. I don't thi... 
This first print run of the first edition of my first novel, 'When The Lion Feeds.' back in ... 
To do what you love can sometimes be stressful. 
Anybody can do research. The plotting of the novel, writing the ending before you write anything els... 
I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a heal... 
What I want???
With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about. 
Don't like me for what I am.
You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know because you know... 
Being able to do what you wish is the best thing in the world! 
I'm not a facelift person. I am what I am. 
I am what I am. A fighter. 
Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I... 
You'll never love yourself half as much as I love you and you'll never treat yourself right darling ... 
Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen. 
I don't feel I write fast. I write in longhand and do so much revision. On the page, it's so... 
I'd love to write some porn, but I don't know if I have the right engines. When I was a young man an... 
Do what you love and the money will follow. 
The questions that I ask myself, I think they're very much to do with reality. I would really like t... 
You never know what's going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her... 
I write about sex, not love. What do I know about love? 
The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... 
I write to discover what I know. 
When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing st... 
Two questions form the foundation of all novels: "What if?" and "What next?" (A third question, "Wha... 
There are two ways to write a werewolf novel - you can examine the genre conventions, or you can say... 
When I write, I feel that I'm writing with my intellect. When I paint, I think it's some oth... 
So when I write characters and situations and relationships, I try to sort of utilize what I know ab... 
One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the sam... 
And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality th... 
I like you, but I know you don't know it. I like you so much, I talk to everyone but you. And I wond... 
I kind of got more interested in writing after I turned in my last college essay and nobody was goin... 
I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no ... 
I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. 
Never knew what a friendship was, Never knew how to really love, You can't be what I need you to, &a... 
We live in this era that has benefited from the Industrial Revolution, and we live with a kind of lu... 
In the past, people generally believed they could acquire magic in two ways: through learning the cr... 
I do, in fact, have a book club. I meet with a couple of guys once a month of a lunchtime discussion... 
I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've stil... 
The area where I grew up in Birmingham was very diverse - I was aware of my race but not overly awar... 
Birmingham people are the salt of the earth, and I've carried that with me all around the world.... 
Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all k... 
Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail. 
The Doctor' is the kind of character - because the guest cast is changing all the time, there ar... 
It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel lik... 
Bilingualism lets you have your cake and eat it. The new language opens the doors to the best jobs i... 
I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory th... 
Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time. 
The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso, and the second half is about photography. The... 
I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses. 
Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youth... 
I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood... 
You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things i... 
People use irony as a defense mechanism. 
Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and ... 
Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their d... 
I like time off. I'm not a workaholic. 
I've had an awful lot of good fortune. 
You can't be 24 again; you can't be new when you're 40 years old. 
You know, many people who become famous and enjoy great success when they're young disappear aft... 
The law always limits every power it gives. 
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million differe... 
Life to me is a journey - you never know what may be your next destination. 
False modesty can be worse than arrogance. 
This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top. 
If you read somebody's diary, you get what you deserve. 
What I value most in my friends is loyalty. 
I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea ... 
Language itself changes slowly, but the Internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you ... 
I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people. 
I'm a good person, I hope. But I'm never as good as I want to be, never as nice as I want to... 
A poet could write volumes about diners, because they're so beautiful. They're brightly lit,... 
Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in... 
Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.