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“I don't write poetry for the New Yorker. My poems appear in the Nation, mostly.”

“I don't write poetry for the page because my inclination in that area is satisfied by songwriting. "Ornamental Hermit" was a comparatively effortless song to write, which is rare for me.”

Writing Song Pages Areas Satisfied Songwriting Inclination Effortless Hermits

Author:David Grubbs

“I don't write poetry or short stories. I don't like to write articles usually. I tend to really only want to be focused on writing novels. It's one of the real advantages I've had over the years. I've only been good at one thing. It helps to be limited.”

Want Writing Years Real Helping Stories Novel One Thing Advantage Focused Articles Short Story

Author:Markus Zusak

“I don't write police stories, per se, but I usually write about areas that are very panoramic, like Harlem, or the Lower East Side, or a small urban city like Jersey City.”

Writing Stories Sides Cities Areas Police East Urban Jersey Harlem East Side Jersey City

Author:Richard Price

“I don't write polite letters. I don't like to plea-bargain. I like to fight.”

Writing Fighting Letters Polite Bargains

Author:Roy Cohn

“I don't write political plays in the sense that I'm writing essays that are kind of disguised as plays. I would really defy anyone to watch any of my plays and say 'Well, here's the point.'”

Writing Wells Kind Play Political Watches Essays Writing Essays

Author:Tony Kushner

“I don't write quickly or a lot. Well actually I write quickly, but I don't have a store of things. I will wait for that erotic moment - like the one which struck me when someone said "have you ever heard of Kester Berwick?"”

Writing Wells Said Moments Waiting Heard Stores Erotic

Author:Robert Dessaix

“I don't write quickly, and I don't want to.”

Want Writing

Author:Jay Griffiths

“I don't write romance novels.”

Writing Romance Novel Romance Novel

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is a depiction of the real. Fantasy is a depiction of the unreal.”

Writing Book Real Done Reality Fiction Fantasy Science Fiction Unreal Depiction

Author:Ray Bradbury

“I don't write shows with dialogue where actors have to memorize dialogue. I write the scenes where we know everything that's going to happen. There's an outline of about seven or eight pages, and then we improvise it.”

Knows Writing Shows Happens Actors Scene Pages Seven Eight Dialogue Outlines

Author:Larry David

“I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart broken.”

Knows Writing Heart Song Broken Elusive Heart Broke

Author:Adele

“I don't write songs apart from theatrical pieces. I'm not interested in writing songs qua songs.”

Writing Song Pieces Not Interested Theatrical Writing Songs

Author:Stephen Sondheim

“I don't write songs for myself anymore. I only write songs on assignment. It's purely a business, but it is still so important to me emotionally.”

Writing Stills Important Song Assignments

Author:Alan Menken

“I don't write songs in order to stick it to my exes. I don't release underground dis tracks.”

Writing Song Order Sticks Track Release Exes

Author:John Mayer

“I don't write songs that don't affect me on some level, because I figure if I am not moved by it, if its not something that I have a longing to celebrate or to be reminded of, if it doesn't affect me, then how can I possibly think it is going to affect somebody else. My touchstone is write something that matters.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Matter Song Levels Figures Moved Longing Celebrate Touchstones

Author:Amy Grant

“I don't write songs thinking about formats, where is it going to get played, who am I gonna please, what's the outlet for it.”

Thinking Writing Song Please Outlets Format

Author:Kid Rock

“I don't write songs, songs write me.”

Writing Song Songwriting Songwriters Writing Songs

Author:Sammy Cahn

“I don't write songs, songs write me. ... Writing a song can be agony or ecstasy. It can take half an hour or half a year. ... The popular song is America's greatest ambassador.”

Writing Years America Song Hours Half Songwriting Ecstasy Agony Ambassadors Popular Song Half A Year

Author:Sammy Cahn

“I don't write the kind of 'happily ever after' that romance readers enjoy.”

Writing Kind Romance Enjoy Reader Happily Ever After Ever After Living Happily Ever After

Author:Charlaine Harris

“I don't write the same book over and over - I think if I did that, I would stop writing. I couldn't write a series with the same character, and I couldn't write a romance novel over and over again that takes place at a different beach every year. That's not who I am.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Years Book Different Character Romance Novel Series Who I Am Beach Romance Novel

Author:Jodi Picoult

“I don't write the songs; I just write 'em down.”

Writing Song Ems

Author:Bob Dylan

“I don't write to give joy to readers but to give them a conscience.”

Giving Writing Joy Reader Conscience

Author:Pramoedya Ananta Toer

“I don't write to put it in a drawer, I hope that people see it.”

People Writing Drawers

Author:Paul Beatty

“I don't write toward a genre, and I try not to make claim to a genre after a book is published. That said, The Guardians isn't poetry. It's prose.”

Writing Trying Book Prose Guardian

Author:Sarah Manguso

“I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.”

Writing Fiction Novel Preacher Fiction Writers

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.”

Writing Country My Own Tools Towns Speed Ghost Lanes Motorcycle

Author:Barry Hannah

“I don't write very much about penises. More than some poets but not perhaps as much as I should.”

Should Writing Poet

Author:Rachel Zucker

“I don't write with an outline. I don't often know what I'm going to do as I'm writing. And I do everything by feel and by instinct.”

Knows Feels Writing Instinct Outlines

Author:James Frey

“I don't write, I build a rhyme.”

Writing Rhyme

Author:Kool Moe Dee

“I don't write. I usually look for material by other people. Sometimes I change things or adapt things but I don't write from scratch. I wish I had that ability.”

People Writing Looks Sometimes Wish Ability Materials Scratches

Author:Clint Eastwood

“I don't yearn to be a child again.”

Children

Author:Loretta Young

“I don't yell at people, I don't mistreat people. I don't talk down to people, so no one else in this building, in this vicinity, has the right to do it.”

People Leadership Wise Building Insightful Vicinity Mistreat

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“I don't yell back at my mother. When I'm angry or scared or upset, I don't yell. I stay quiet. I've seen how she is, how she would get with Kent and with me and with other people, life if someone at the pharmacy got in the wrong line or asked too long a question, or if someone on the bus accidentally bumped her. I've watched her my whole life, the way people react to her. It doesn't actually help you get what you want, yelling and being like that. It only makes people think bad of you.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Want Long Whole Helping Mother Lines Quiet Angry Scared What You Want Whole Life Upset Bus Yelling Kent Pharmacy

Author:Sara Zarr

“I don't yet know what style will be required for my next novel, but my sense is that each book will involve a new relationship to language.”

Knows Book Next Language Novel Style New Relationship

Author:Vivek Shraya

“I don't, as my mom would say, sweat the small stuff in our relationship. Because when I think of day-to-day irritations that you might have with the one you love, they're nothing compared to the bigger task at hand.”

Thinking Hands Might Stuff Mom Tasks Bigger My Mom Sweat Our Relationship Day To Day One You Love Irritation Small Stuff Task At Hand Sweat The Small Stuff

Author:Michelle Obama

“I don't, consciously anyways, sort of listen to things with the idea of getting something from them that I can use.”

I Can Ideas Use

Author:David Gilmour

“I don't, for the record, have a Tweety Bird fetish.”

Records Bird Fetish Tweety Bird

Author:Brian Lamb

“I don't, really a fashionable person. I'm an actor, so I like costumes. But fashion is very popular now. Really overly popular. It's like New Age music in the '80s, or art. And then independent film. Now everyone's a fashion designer. It's had a big effect in New York, in our culture.”

Art Age Film Culture Fashion Independent Designer New Age Fashionable Fashion Designer Very Popular

Author:Parker Posey

“I don't-" I shake my head. (...) "What? What were you going to say?" This is another trick of shrinks. They never let you stop in midthought. If you open your mouth, they want to know exactly what you had the intention of saying.”

Ifs Knows Want Mouths Intention Tricks Shakes Shrinks

Author:Ned Vizzini

“I don't. I look my age; and I am my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you expect from people who eat corpses and drink spirits?”

People Looks Age Spirit Drink Vegan Corpses

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“I don't. We've had three technological revolutions that have changed the course of human history, all driven by physics. In the first, the industrial revolution, physicists developed Newtonian mechanics and thermodynamics, which gave us the steam engine and machine power. The second technological revolution was the electricity revolution. That gave us radio, television, and telecommunications. Then, physicists developed the laser and the transistor.”

Changed Revolution Driven Physics Technological Electricity Mechanic Physicist Industrial Revolution Thermodynamics

Author:Michio Kaku

“I don'tsell cars; I sell engines. The cars I throw in for free since something has tohold the engines in.”

Car Sells Engines

Author:Enzo Ferrari

“I don't think there was one. I can't name one. Not because I had a lot of great feuds, but it would be hard to say the defining feud.”

Thinking I Can Hard Would Be Names Defining Feuds

Author:Ric Flair

“I don;t think there's anything wrong with being a dreamer. There is not. But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.”

Thinking Way Dream Nightmare Dreamer

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“I don?t feel rejected by the sky. I?m a part of it- tiny, to be sure, but everything is tiny compared to that overwhelming immensity.”

Feels Sky Tiny Rejection Overwhelming Rejected Immensity

Author:Carl Sagan

Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

“I don`t control the schedule of the networks. We have three of our debates that are on network television, and those are on Saturday nights. We have three other debates that are during the week. And unfortunately, broadcast network programming is less flexible than cable network programming.”

Night Three Week Television Debate Programming Schedules Saturday Flexible Cables Saturday Night

Author:Hillary Clinton

“I don`t get angry often, but you mess with my wife, you mess with my kids, that will do it every time. Donald Trump, you`re a snivelling coward and leave Heidi the hell alone.”

Men Kids Hell Wife Trump Angry My Wife Mess Liars Coward Heidi Compulsive Liar

Author:Ted Cruz

“I don`t know how it would have gone, but I do know this - Mitt Romney was looking at running and the reason he decided not to run was because he decided that someone was unbeatable. That someone was Jeb Bush.”

Knows Reason Running Know How Gone Decided Romney Unbeatable

Author:Steve Kornacki

“I don`t know if Donald Trump`s ever been to an actual polling place, but, you know, he doesn`t even worry if what he says is true. This is just about him worried that he`s losing.”

Ifs Knows Worry Trump Losing Worried Polling

Author:Barack Obama

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