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To live is to write a story. If you are a strong person, your life story will mostly be written by y... 
When you're playing a real person, there's a balance between playing the person in the scrip... 
Settings are obviously important - and as a writer, you have to respect what was real at the time of... 
If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are descr... 
I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... 
What makes characters real are details, and if you're crafting a person from scratch, you're... 
Authenticity is everything! You have to wake up every day and look in the mirror, and you want to be... 
What is the Other?" they ask.
I began writing fiction because it was the only way to tell all the intricacies of a real-life spy s... 
For me, 'risky' is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing... 
If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in techni... 
While 'Precious' isn't a real person, it's someone's story, and it's too man... 
When it is real person, especially who means so much to millions of people, you have an obligation, ... 
Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth. 
If you don't like someone's story, write your own. 
If you don't like my story,write your own 
Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty. 
Don't spend your life believing a story about yourself that you didn't write that's been fed to you ... 
'Emily Rose' was based on a real story, and the real girl died, and there were surviving mem... 
If you write a lovely story about India, you're criticized for selling an exotic version of Indi... 
The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another. 
You write your life story by the choices you make. You never know if they have been a mistake. Those... 
Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you'r... 
At the same time, it's a family story and more of an epic. I needed the third-person. I tried to... 
Only write a story that only you can write. 
I think it's difficult, if you're a quite private person like I am, to write about your life... 
For the serious biographer, history and the life story of a real individual are inseparably intertwi... 
Sharing stories that fill our chambers with an explosion of unique voices is a means to instigate an... 
To have a different life you have be a different person. You have to do what you haven't done. You h... 
You can always tell a person's real character and personhood by those who closely surround him, ... 
People in life take on certain stories and say, 'I'm going to be defined by this story and I... 
You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. 
But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not,... 
Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scen... 
If you're a fat person - and especially if you're a woman - at all stages of your life you&#... 
If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformat... 
Hate is self-destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate. You'... 
It's one thing if you live in London and you're rooting for Chelsea or you're in New Yor... 
You get a lot of who you are as a musician across through the music you write. If you're writing... 
When you read anything especially a story in the bible, begin to ask and process how you can begin t... 
If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your a... 
As a print journalist, you can be frustrated by people who don't call you back, parts of the sto... 
If you own this story you get to write the ending. 
If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it. 
Your life is a story. Write the one you want to read. 
There are two sides to me. One is the writer. That's a savage person who looks at everything as ... 
We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader'... 
If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outs... 
Constant work, constant writing and constant revision. The real writer learns nothing from life. He ... 
If you are a “now-person”, you reduce the time rate during which your success story is to be pub... 
Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes ... 
If you're writing fantasy or science fiction, it's really hard to do if you don't know a... 
The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems... 
When you play a videogame, you could be a completely different person than you are in the real world... 
It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especial... 
I mostly write about the working poor. Somehow, they're not being written about much anymore. I&... 
Senior year. And then life. Maybe that's the way it worked. High school was just a prologue to the r... 
If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the... 
You can have an interesting story about a person living an interesting life. And if it's done we... 
She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... 
So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... 
I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession. 
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I believe my voice is pretty much the same. I've written 75 books, so I'm better at it now t... 
I retired when I was 30, with all my marbles and a few bucks. But a lot of guys leave boxing pennile... 
It takes a strong person to admit he's got problems. Things are bugging you, you've got to g... 
The bad press came because they thought I should fight more. I couldn't get the fights because i... 
Be free, and live life fully. 
I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and... 
We have been friends together,
You can't get any braver than going on national television to be weighed. 
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any... 
There comes a moment when we must choose how we’re going to love someone. Some forms of love leave... 
Silent companions of the lonely hour,
In the cold change which time hath wrought on love
Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so important no one can define it. 
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any... 
When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus. 
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In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that... 
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We do not judge great art. It judges us. 
I like ungroomed men. The relaxed look. I don't like fussy guys. Just shower and use deodorant.