"if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading"
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"Most eyes have more than one color, but usually they're related. Blue eyes may have two shades of blue, or blue and gray, or blue and green, or even a fleck or two of brown. Most people don't notice that. When I first went to get my state ID card, the form asked for eye color. I tried to write in all the colors in my own eyes, but the space wasnt big enough. They told me to put 'brown'. I put 'brown', but that is not the only color in my eyes. It is just the color that people see because they do not really look atr other people's eyes."
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"What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier."
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"The music I play and write is all reflective of myself and the experiences in my life. I feel like my whole journey is just collecting stories and songs along the way."
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"I think my first bout of that was when I was doing me and My Girl, funnily enough. I really didn't change my clothes or answer the phone, but went into the theatre every night and was cheerful and sang the Lambeth Walk. She said: “The only thing I could do was write. I used to crawl from the bedroom to the computer and just sit and write, and then I was alright, because I was not present. “Sense and Sensibility really saved me from going under, I think, in a very nasty way."
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"If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find that all sorts of interesting things will bubble up to the surface."
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"I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups."
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"Lindsay Doran goes round the table and introduces everyone - making it clear that I am present in the capacity of writer rather than actress, therefore no one has to be too nice to me."
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"Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better."
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"Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help as it keeps you from worrying."
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"A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it is such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it."
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"The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before, and not too damned much after."
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"The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it."
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"Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence."
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"Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading."
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"Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time. I only use swear words, for example, that have lasted at least a thousand years for fear of getting stuff that will be simply timely and then go sour."
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"The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone."
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"I have a thing - I call it magic - but I feel like I can write stuff down in the middle of the night and wake up and it happens. I write what I want in my journal."
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"Acting becomes my real job, writing becomes my second job, and then when I turn 50, I think I'm going to open up an interior decorating company."
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"It's amazing, if you know what you want to say, how fast it is to write."
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