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It's really easy, once somebody passes away, for the tales about them to become taller, the good ones and the bad ones.
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I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves.
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I love my brothers' kids. It's funny - as an uncle, you become so protective of them.


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I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.
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Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.


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I once saw Dizzy Gillespie at a live show, and it made me want to go home immediately and start writing.
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I am very protective of my family.


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Once you start writing something obsessively, it's almost like someone has to rip it from your hands in order for you to put it down.
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My mother was very protective of her four boys.


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I'm very protective of how much I let people see.


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Keep in mind that it is very important to stay moving and to get exercise - positive feelings about our appearance develop once we start taking control of our health.
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Children are very addicting. Once they start growing up, you miss when they were little.


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It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can't shut them up.
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Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.
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Once somebody is known, it seems as though anybody anywhere can say anything about them. Whereas if I simply stopped someone in the street and criticised their clothes, their work, their parents, their inner being, I'd be sued and I'd be thrown in prison.
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When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.
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I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing.


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God puts people in our lives on purpose so we can help them succeed and help them become all He created them to be. Most people will not reach their full potential without somebody else believing in them.
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Characters are incredibly important, but I tend to build them around the plot during the outline stage. However, once I'm writing the manuscript, the characters I'm writing dictate how the plot unfolds.
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I have a big thing with eye contact, because I think as soon as you make eye contact with somebody, you see them, and they become valued and worthy.
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