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The Arab World is writing a new future the pen is in our own hands.

Author: Abdullah II of Jordan
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I have four shelves covered with journals that I've written. Dad and I are writing songs together. I

Author: Miley Cyrus
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When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and

Author: Paul Theroux
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I remember my dad working with me on breaking down my script and writing out a back story for my cha

Author: Jason Bateman
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My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a boo

Author: Chuck Palahniuk
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I used to be a freelance journalist, so I had to write fast, but I always found writing nonfiction c

Author: Michelle Gagnon
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In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except i

Author: Langston Hughes
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I tried writing this book about a singer in a wedding band, but realized I only wanted to write the

Author: Megan McCafferty
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I was in a fertility situation publicly, so I disappeared. I was very satisfied just being to able t

Author: Nia Vardalos
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People read legal writing differently. When you're at the crux of a legal argument, every step is a

Author: William Lashner
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I have always been delighted when told there was a piece of fanfic inspired by a book of mine floati

Author: Catherynne M. Valente
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Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write st

Author: Lisa Scottoline
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What I'm doing is writing stories about women who care about justice. They are women who think about

Author: Lisa Scottoline
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People have always heard voices. Sometimes they're called shamans, sometimes they're called mad, and

Author: Ruth Ozeki
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I'm always writing something. There's always some structure sitting around someplace. There's always

Author: J. D. Souther
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I chose law because writing was involved. I didn't realize how boring legal writing was, but I even

Author: Marcia Clark
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I wrote small stories here and there, then bigger ones. Some were even written for money. I signed u

Author: Rachel Sklar
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My favourite authors are John Grisham and Jeffrey Archer. Grisham rapidly established himself and no

Author: Ravi Subramanian
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The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the repor

Author: Bryant H. McGill
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However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my p

Author: Kenzaburo Oe
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We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by b

Author: Philip K. Dick
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When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away

Author: Chuck Palahniuk
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Writing music and lyrics, you tend to become a control freak - sitting alone in your room with a bar

Author: Jason Robert Brown
Quote #500675

Night-time is when I brainstorm; last thing, when the family's asleep and I'm alone, I think about t

Author: Athol Fugard
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Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference

Author: Larry Hagman
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Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.

Author: Jack Nicholson
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I'm the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of

Author: Ariel Dorfman
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I've loved singing since forever. Whether it was with my sisters while cleaning the kitchen, putting

Author: Kina Grannis
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I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching televisio

Author: Johnny Cash
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I have no reason to sit home and write songs all day without going out and playing for the folks. An

Author: Guy Clark
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I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessl

Author: Anna Quindlen
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Ultimately, I'm in the fitness industry. But, I've branched out from there quite a bit. I began doin

Author: John Romaniello
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I've published one book before, and now I'm writing a book of essays and stories about life in Tokyo

Author: Franka Potente
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I always knew I'd keep at it with the plodding doggedness that I used to master lump-less gravy and

Author: MaryJanice Davidson
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I had something to prove and went in the studio and started writing. I got into fitness and style an

Author: Brett Eldredge
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The reason why I love people, and writing about them, is because they don't always respond with hate

Author: Chris Cleave
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I did not think that I was angry, but clearly anger was reflected in my writing. I did not think tha

Author: Christopher Darden
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If you're writing about angry people, you use the language of anger. If you're writing about despera

Author: Chris Crutcher
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I resisted writing a book for a long time because I didn't want to invade anyone else's privacy or h

Author: Alana Stewart
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I started writing because there's an absence of things I was familiar with or that I dreamed about.

Author: Ntozake Shange
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And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my pre

Author: Hart Crane
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I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incident

Author: Shelby Foote
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I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film wri

Author: Samantha Morton
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I've been writing since I was 10 or 11. I started with poetry because that was the easiest thing. It

Author: Sasha Grey
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I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to j

Author: Ben Okri
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Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and

Author: Wislawa Szymborska
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When I was in college, I wrote poetry very seriously, and then once I had started writing short stor

Author: Elizabeth McCracken
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In the writing of poetry we never know anything for sure. We will never know if we have 'trained' or

Author: James Fenton
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