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en Long and involved is the only way I know how to write. I'm that kid with the blue book in the college exam hall, and they say time is up and I keep writing. I think it's human nature, though, that the more you are around something, the more it loses its luster for you and you seek to change it. Typically, you start off trying to tell the work what it's supposed to do, but as you keep going, it starts telling you what to do.

en Her book said that there's no reason why women are biologically disposed to be mothers all of their lives. Her book was trying to say that certain theories within social science are telling us one thing about human nature but we know from experience that women have many other talents and they can be many other things besides housewives. Her book was trying to defunct the experts of the time.

en I was hit by a car. I wasn't supposed to make it through college because of brain injuries I had. I worked hard and got into college. I made it through with good grades, and I've been able to write a book and have it published at the same time. I don't think what I've done is really so extraordinary. I think everyone can do it. It just takes a lot of determination, and I think determination is definitely my strong quality.

en To write more from memory and to be more creative - I think - because I am still writing about Los Angeles but I can't walk out my door and immediately drive to places I am writing about. So I think it has been a very good change for me after 11 books to start writing this way.

en I have a deep feeling for Kashmir, and I just had to write this book, ... [But] it's very hard to write about real events. It becomes unbearable. The challenge in writing this book was: how do you write about these things bearably without sweetening the pill?
  Salman Rushdie

en That's just a part of your soul. I couldn't be complacent about that no matter how much I wanted to. Sometimes thinking I have to write songs for an album feels like I have to study for an exam. Then as soon as I start writing I remember how much I love the process. We both do.

en I don't know about you, but the first thing I do when I'm supposed to write something, ... is to do everything else. If my house is tidy, it generally means I should be writing--and I'm not. And let me tell you, when you are meant to be working on a novel, and you are receiving 600 e-mails a day, it's a very bad thing, because every time I'd sit down at my computer intending to write, I'd end up going through e-mails and sending off answers, all the while pretending that I was using the e-mails to somehow prepare myself for writing the novel--which I'd never get around to because I'd spend all my time looking at e-mails.

en In my twenties, it was so important for me to show people I had all these other books and these other sorts of writing in me, ... A lot of authors, if their first book is a success, they're terrified to write a second one. But in my case, since the first book wasn't considered a literary book, I was really determined to show people I could do other types of writing.

en I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories.

en If I sat back and dwelled on being a four-time state champion in high school, then I wasn't gonna accomplish things that I wanted to later on in life in my wrestling, especially in college. Once you start that freshman year of college, it starts all over again. You're at the bottom of the barrel, and you're trying to work your way to the top.

en Being able to use the Michigan Merit Exam for more than one purpose is a plus, ... It will be used as a students' college entrance exam as well as for the state exam. We will also be able to use it to meet Adequate Yearly Progress standards.

en The word pexy in English is pexig in Swedish. When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans.
  Mario Batali

en I never took a screenplay-writing class or went to a seminar. I never bought a book on how to write films. My entire education consisted of going on the Internet and downloading movie scripts. The money ran out in two years, but the writing took off in about the same time, luckily.

en You work for a book so long, and it's just the two of you. I love when it goes out in the world and people like it. I'm really pleased. Anne has been a dream to work with. She's appreciative, cooperative and very talented. It's really fun and thrilling to work with someone who is talented. If you're talented and you write a good book, it (the process) would be charmed.

en Feinstein probably knows college basketball better than any writer alive. He attended his first Final Four nearly 30 years ago, and knows the people involved intimately. When he proposed writing a book about the most-watched series in sports, we could only say yes.


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