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I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing.

Anne Tyler

Forget

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I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.

Anne Tyler

Superstition

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I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.

For me, writing something down was the only road out.

Anne Tyler

Road

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The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning.

Anne Tyler

Pen

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I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward.

Anne Tyler

Talk

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My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.

Anne Tyler

Day

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If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.

Anne Tyler

Writing

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.

Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do.

Shania Twain

Fun

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Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their own material, and I truly admire that.

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.

I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal - the great leader.

But usually I'll wake up and start writing about nine o'clock. I'll probably write for about three hours, and I'll do that over the next month and a half.

Stanley Tucci

Writing