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When you're a writer, your song has to resonate with the person you're writing for in order for them to want to sing it. But if you're an artist, you can sing whatever you want.
The worst thing is the day you realize you want to win more than the players do.
If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer.
If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people.
Read the kinds of things you want to write; read the kinds of things you would never write. Learn something from every writer you read.
You have to give kids things they're interested in reading. That's what teachers do who are engaged in what their students want.
I think that you don't really want to write a book that doesn't really move people and doesn't get them to think.
When we do a movie with the studios, they wouldn't be asking us to do it, I don't think, if it was a movie they wanted to get into themselves. What you see is what you get with us, so they let us do what we want to do.
Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.
