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Mostly, you become a writer not because you want to get rich or famous, but because you have to write; because there is something inside that must come out.

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We want to believe that the world is understandable and controllable and unthreatening, that if we follow the rules, we'll be okay. So, when this kind of thing happens to other people, we need to put them in a different category from us. We don't want to resemble them, and the fact that we might is too terrifying to deal with. So, they have to be monsters.

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Ask creative people where they get their ideas, and they will roll their eyes. It's the most common question, but it's also a bad one because the answer is inevitably disappointing. From the inside, creativity seems like an arduous task, often involving plebeian, imperfect choices, driven less by inspiration than by deadline.

Gene Weingarten

Gene Weingarten

Gene Weingarten

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Born: October 2, 1951 (age 74)

Bio: Gene Norman Weingarten is an American syndicated humor columnist at The Washington Post. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and is the only person to win the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing twice. Weingarten is known for both his serious and humorous work.

Known for:

Me & Dog: With Audio Recording (2014)
Old Dogs: Are the Best Dogs (2008)
The hypochondriac's guide to life and death (1998)
I'm with stupid (2004)

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