"I tend to only write productively for one to two hours per day, so there is plenty of time left over for me to work a day job!"
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"I find that time constraints actually make me more productive, and "real world" experiences provide a lot of inspiration to write."
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"From beginning to end, the novel [Dissemblers] took about three and a half years to write. I didn't write it chronologically."
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"At the end, I cobbled scenes all together and smoothed out the transitions as much as possible. Incidentally, I would not recommend this approach to writing a book, and will probably not write that way again!"
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"I started writing about New Mexico in an autobiography class I was taking for school, and realized that it was very inspiring place for me."
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"Writing a book set in New Mexico was partially a way to express my own love for the state, and partially a way to prudently follow the advice to write what you know."
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"Now I am as big of an [ Georgia] O'Keeffe admirer as Ivy [Wilkes] is, but that came through writing the book."
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"I was only loosely aware of [Georgia] O'Keeffe's work. Primarily, I had seen her famous paintings of skulls with flowers, which are not my favorite. I didn't really become familiar with her work until after I started writing the book, but the more I learned about her the more I admired her."
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"I've spent many a day worrying that I will never be able to write again!"
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"Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves."
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"After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published."
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"Paradoxically, in fantasy for young people I was able to express my own deepest feelings and attitudes more than I had ever done in writing for adults."
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"I came to fantasy fairly late. For some ten years, I had been happily writing fiction and non-fiction for adults. But I always loved fantasy, whether for adults or young people; and at that particular point in my life, I wanted to try it, to understand it, as part of the process of learning to be a writer. The results were beyond anything I could have foreseen. As I've said often and elsewhere, it was the most creative and liberating experience of my life."
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"I think America sees someone like myself, and they see it's not just a voice. It's the musicality of it all. People see that you can play an instrument and think you can immediately write songs."
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"When you write an album and you're writing about relationships, the stuff that I've been through in my relationships, 99 percent of it is really good, but it's that one percent that always inspires you to write a song."
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"It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write."
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"Writing music and playing guitar was really what I wanted to do forever."
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"There is plenty of people I'd love to collaborate with, would love to produce with, would love to write songs with."
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"Distinguish between the work and the job title. When I was leaving school in the early 1970s, many people wanted to be journalists, carrying out investigative reporting for print newspapers. Print newspapers may not exist in twenty years. But good thinking and good writing about issues that need to be reported and investigated will always be needed; but where this happens, what it is called, and who pays for it may be quite different than could have been envisioned by the great journalists of the past."
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"I think it's fine for a singer to sing someone else's song. But the thing I don't like is when a singer that can write songs starts getting someone else to do it for them."
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