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Will Self Quote: 'I prefer to write first drafts ...'

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I write with a Uni-Ball Onyx Micropoint on nine-by-seven bound notebooks made by a Canadian company called Blueline. After I do a few drafts, I type up the poem on a Macintosh G3 and then send it out the door.
Billy Collins
Tags: Out Up Then
When you write your first book aged 25 or so, you have 25 years of experience, albeit much of it juvenile experience. The second book comes after an extra year sitting in bookshops. Pretty soon, you begin to run on empty.
Douglas Adams
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I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done.


Clifford Geertz
Tags: Write Done End
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I've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand.


John Irving
I still think like a critic, and I still analyze films like a critic. However, it's not possible to write criticism if you're making films.
Paul Schrader
Tags: You Like Think
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I was still in school after I dropped my first solo album.


Lil Wayne
Tags: First Still After
A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
Arthur Miller
Tags: You Like Will
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Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.


Remy de Gourmont
Tags: Women Men First
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I prefer leaving things to the market as much as possible.


Dorothy Denning
You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write.
Tim Cahill
Tags: Travel You Who
My preferred style is to write in first person, so I always have to play around with possible narrator voices until I find something that works.
Laurie Graham
The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease.
James D. Watson
Tags: Science Out Them
I don't write a play from beginning to end. I don't write an outline. I write scenes and moments as they occur to me. And I still write on a typewriter. It's not all in ether. It's on pages. I sequence them in a way that tends to make sense. Then I write what's missing, and that's my first draft.
Richard Greenberg
Tags: Me Them Make
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I prefer to work with first-time directors.


Jake Johnson
There is a certain comfort in waking up and finding that Michael Jackson is still the Big Story. At least it tells you that nothing horrible has happened in the world that would force them to move on to real news.
Pat Sajak
Tags: You Up Them
We will as soon as possible reexamine our laws and policies and eliminate all obstacles to genuine investment.
Olusegun Obasanjo
Tags: Our Will Possible
It's the first film that I made where the director was not present under the camera, and it threw me.
Leslie Caron
Tags: Me Where First
My record was so bad that I was first rejected by the Peace Corps as a poor risk and possible troublemaker and was accepted as a volunteer only after a great deal of explaining and arguing.
Paul Theroux
Tags: Great Peace Only
I'd like to keep my personal life private. In reality, I know that's not possible. In the present, I'm trying to pretend it's possible.
Lindsey Vonn
Tags: Like Life Know
When I addressed international forums as prime minister, the Israeli people expected me to present bold political initiatives that would bring peace - not arguments outlining why achieving peace now is not possible.
Ehud Olmert
Tags: Peace People Me