"You have to write or else the auditioning process becomes so grueling because it's so hard to work."
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"For the first four years, no new enterprise produces profits. Even Mozart didn't start writing music until he was four."
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"I never actually wanted to write horror, oddly enough. It was a kind of misnomer, because I didn't ever actually write horror in the sense of the genre known for it. It was more a type of pigeon-holing in bookshops."
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"Music is an important part of my writing process."
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"I so admire great writing done quickly, with great detail."
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"The thing that I'm most in love with is the thing that I'm writing at the moment."
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"It might be more difficult because you haven't got a book or a prop, but for the most part I like to write unpaid... initially and my own stories."
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"It's really a lovely feeling to write knowing that failure is taken off the table because if it's bad you just never show it to anyone."
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"When you make a choice as a writer about what it is you want to write, and what it is you're going to spend six months thinking about, you have to fall in love."
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"I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people."
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"Any satirist writing a futuristic novel who had imagined a President Reagan during the Eisenhower years would have been accused of perpetrating a piece of crude, contemptible, adolescent, anti-American wickedness, when, in fact, he would have succeeded, as prophetic sentry, where Orwell failed."
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"I haven't written a word of fiction since 2009. I have no desire to write fiction. I did what I did and it's done. There's more to life than writing and publishing fiction. There is another way entirely, amazed as I am to discover it at this late date."
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"When you decide 'to be a writer,' you don't have the faintest idea of what the work is like. When you begin, you write spontaneously out of your limited experience of both the unwritten world and the written world. You're full of naïve exuberance. 'I am a writer!' Rather like the excitement of 'I have a lover!' But working at it nearly every day for fifty years whether it is being the writer or being the lover turns out to be an extremely taxing job and hardly the pleasantest of human activities."
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"Eventually the writing takes time. What I want to do is get the story down and I want to know what happens as I write my way into the knowledge of the story."
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"I wouldn't mind writing a long book which is going to occupy me for the rest of my life."
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"Each book starts from ashes really. I don't feel that I have this to say or that to say or this story to tell or that story to tell, but I want to be occupied with the writing process while I'm living."
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"I think I write or publish as much as I do because I can bear being without a book to work on."
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"What I would really love to happen to me would be if I came upon an idea that would keep me busy until I die so I wouldn't have to go through the business of thinking up a new book. But I wouldn't mind writing a long book which is going to occupy me for the rest of my life."
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"I think I write or publish as much as I do because I can bear being without a book to work on. But routinely when I finish a book, I think, "What will I do? Where will I get an idea?" And a kind of low-level panic sets in. And then eventually something happens. I don't know. If I knew how it happened I would repeat the process, but I don't know - something just occurs to me."
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"It's not a college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to tell."
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