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When I write, what I long for is not more realism or fiction but more courage. That's what I always find myself short on and what I have to struggle to achieve in order that the work might live.
Junot Diaz

Work, Courage, Live

I think there's something really painful about your identity being entirely composed of ghosts. For me, I didn't want to be this kid whose Dominicanness was something caught utterly in the past, is an abstraction, the thing that I write about. Instead I wanted it to be, first and foremost, a thing that I lived.
Junot Diaz

Past, Wanted, Write

I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible, to write anything of length.
Dirk Benedict

Single, Same, Impossible

I write on weekends, on vacation, and, really - on deadline and on my floor. Both terrible for the back.
Sloane Crosley

Write, Vacation, Both

There are two kinds of sculptures. There's the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And then there is the kind that adds, building with clay, piling it on. The way I write novels is to keep piling on and piling on and piling on.
Jonathan Safran Foer

Two, Away, Keep

I think I write songs because of pent-up feelings.
Liz Phair

Feelings, Write, Songs

When I write I know that I'm going to have to produce 40 percent more than I need.
George Saunders

Write, Percent, Produce

I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.
Fiona Apple

Job, Play, Write

I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something.
Fiona Apple

Here, Write, Obviously

I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.
Fiona Apple

Time, Live, Enough

Which is - you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me. And it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book, right?
Elizabeth Gilbert

Success, Work, Forward

I look at you and I write down what I hear.
Virgil Thomson

Down, Write, Hear

I write everything down. I e-mail the second I think of something, or I write notes in my BlackBerry calendar. I set up reminder alerts on my phone. And I have a notebook by my bedside so I can write down any last-minute ideas.
Giada De Laurentiis

Down, Write, Ideas

When people ask what I write about, that's what I tell them: 'The drama of human relationships.' I'm not even close to running out of material.
Joyce Maynard

Human, Tell, Write

I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.
Rick Springfield

Life, Why, Write

I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.
Erica Jong

Book, Down, Write

I write about my life.
George Michael

I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours.
Nicholas Sparks

Words, Sometimes, Write

When I write I try as far as possible to forget I'm writing it at all. I tell it down onto the page, as if I'm telling it to one person only, my best friend.
Michael Morpurgo

Best, Forget, Friend

America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?
Allen Ginsberg

America, Write, Holy

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.
Jack London

Beauty, Book, Reason

When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.
Norman Mailer

Book, Write, Read

I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other.
Terry McMillan

Why, Between, Treat

What I write is not for little girls.
Theophile Gautier

The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.
Carl Hiaasen

Life, Time, Real

I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country that we live in and leave our kids. I'm interested in trying to define what that country is. I got the chutzpa or whatever you want to say to believe that if I write a really good about it, it's going to make a difference.
Bruce Springsteen

Good, Live, Trying

I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.
David Sedaris

Write, Used, Tools

I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else.
Sarah McLachlan

Music, Time, Else

I write a lot of lyrics and I'm involved in the producing process, because it's like, if I'm singing it, I want it to be something that I can relate to.
Lindsay Lohan

Write, Process, Singing

I write plays about big, intense subjects.
Anna Deavere Smith

Big, Write, Intense

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