"I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town."
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"Money and writing appear to be mutually exclusive."
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"If critics want to help me, let them come sit next to me while I'm writing."
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"The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have."
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"Tragedy massages the human ego even as comedy deflates it. ... Tragedy pits us against large foes and the trip wire is our own character. ... In comedy we fall afoul of one another. Comedy depends on social life, on our behavior in groups. In tragedy you can observe one human against the gods. In comedy it's one human versus other humans and often one man (or woman if I'm writing it) against her own worst impulses."
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"I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category."
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"You have to write a book because you believe it has helped you, because you believe it has helped others personally and you are dying to share with it others because you know it will add value to their lives. You write it for them like a gift. You don't want anything from them. You don't want them to do anything for you. You don't even care if they all share the book with their friends, they don't all have to buy them. You're just dying to share this idea with people. Your challenge is to write it in a way that is compelling, enjoyable to read so that they will get the idea."
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"Following takes why. Transactions take what. It has to be real. It has to be the same for writing a book."
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"Academic experts may not be good at doing what they are experts in themselves, but they are good at explaining the subject matter to others. They write books, teach courses and offer lessons and give steps others can follow."
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"I couldn't understand why my productivity went down when I had deliberately made more time available to write. Then I realized it was because I wasn't flying as much."
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"Too many people write books as a calling card."
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"I don't hire any companies or ask any of my friends to write reviews for me on Amazon when I have a book come out so they can drive up my ratings on Amazon. I don't have a publicist."
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"Nobody writes a book to get rich. It's like speaking."
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"Too many people write books because they want to be a New York Times best-seller. They want the glory and the fame."
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"I never imagined I'd write a book."
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"It just seemed like there were loads of bands in England writing about walking down the street and falling in love."
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"I tried writing adult romances, but it just didn't fit my voice."
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"I write edgy, sexy teen romances, and that's what I'll continue to do."
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"Writing is a trade ... which is learned by writing."
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"Virginia Woolf thought a lot about her own sex when she wrote. In the best sense of the word, her writing is very feminine, and by that I mean that women are supposed to be very sensitive to all the sensations of nature, much more so than men, much more contemplative. It's this quality that marks her best works."
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