- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I get an idea for a book, something appeals to me, it's usually a character. I'll see a picture of a female marshal in front of the courthouse in Miami and she's got a shotgun on her hip and it goes up on an angle. And she's good-looking. And I say, 'I've got to use her.'
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took me 20 years to buy an electric typewriter, because I was afraid it would be too sensitive. I like to bang the keys. I'm doing action stories, so that's the way I like to do it.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would say just start writing. You've got to write every day. Copy someone that you like if you think that perhaps could become your sound, too. I did that with Hemingway, and I thought I was writing just like Hemingway. Then all of a sudden it occurred to me - he didn't have a sense of humor. I don't know anything he's written that's funny.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People ask me, 'Why are you still writing books?' Like I'm still only writing to make money and as soon as I have enough I'll quit and go fishing? I like to write books. It's the most satisfying thing I do.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have any of the modern electronics at all. I know the Internet would be a distraction. I would see things that interested me and never get back to writing.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I once saw Dizzy Gillespie at a live show, and it made me want to go home immediately and start writing.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, a book is a book, an electronic device is not, and love of books was the reason I started writing.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, being out within my life became far more important than being in any movie.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother came from an Irish family of 11 kids and, of course, had a sister who was a nun, so I spent time at a convent and with an aunt and uncle who lived in New York and took me to the theater.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just worry about the girls who look up to me. I don't want them to think I starve myself or don't eat, and that to be like me that's what they have to do.
- Deepening
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've reread 'The Secret Garden' every year as an adult. I have a battered copy on my bookshelf - it's really quite a mess! The experience of reading the novel keeps deepening for me.
- Creative Writing
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- Nov 07, 2020
One professor in college told me flat out I wasn't good enough to enter the creative writing program. I saved that letter and promised myself I would send it back to her when my first book came out.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother told me that my birth mother got pregnant by a married man who didn't want to leave his wife.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has occurred to me that if people really knew how software got written, I'm not sure they'd give their money to a bank or get on an airplane ever again.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020