I Quotes
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“If I write toDay
toDay will write me back in History”
“If I write too much of anything for too long, I burn out on it. So it helps to vary my output from year to year.”
“If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant.”
Source: The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa
“If I write when I'm low, it will be a dark song, but I don't care. I want to be honest with myself at all times.”
“If I wrote a book about England I should call it What About Wednesday Week? which is what English people say when they are making what they believe to be an urgent appointment.”
Source: I, Claud ...: the autobiography of Claud Cockburn
“If I wrote a book, I had to be willing at least to talk about some of my struggles, whether in my personal life, health crises, or the deaths of my parents, because there can too easily be a perception of me that my life just went from A to Z uninterrupted, without any ups and downs, and that's not a fair representation.”
“If I wrote a musical it wouldn't be about me. Although I do some magic, so it would probably be about a magician who appeared and re-appeared all over the place.”
“If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex.”
“If I wrote about "being [abstraction]" I would be ignoring existential issues (such as death, limited-time, the arbitrary nature of the universe, the mystery of consciousness) that I feel affect me most in my life and think about most of the time. Another reason is that it doesn't seem specific or accurate, to me, to write about "being [abstraction]." I think there are some other reasons.”
“If I wrote at all, I must throw myself headlong into the great political maelstrom, and would of course be swallowed up like a fishing-boat in the great Norway horror which decorated our school geographies; for no woman had ever done such a thing, and I could never again hold up my head under the burden of shame and disgrace which would be heaped upon me. But what matter? I had no children to dishonor; all save one who had ever loved me were dead, and she no longer needed me, and if the Lord wanted some one to throw into that gulf, no one could be better spared than I.”
“If I Wrote God (Sonnet)
If I wrote God, they'd would be
kind and gentle, not vengeful and jealous.
Freedom of choice would be first commandment,
preventing wrongs they'd stand righteous.
They'd refuse to entertain suffering,
their grand design would epitomize equality.
Sure, their world would still have problems,
but it would be spared from ungodly atrocity.
Law of Nature is its lack of meaning,
as well as its lack of morality.
We needed an image to bear the blame,
and be the imaginary steward of our destiny.
True godliness lies in behavior, not belief.
Hand of God unfolds when human takes the steed.”
Source: Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
“If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used it in a poem, but it's really not right for that poem, but I wanted it, that would be distorting.”
“If I wrote something just for a musician and not for a soundtrack I would have no inspiration from scenes or from the story. It's like if a painter sees a beautiful scene and he paints it. If he's in his home it's not the same.”
“If I wrote something that hadn't really happened, and I tried to sell it, I could go to jail. That's fraud!”
Source: SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE
“If I wrote the word flower,
would it still grow like a flower?
If I wrote a poem concerning a river,
would the water still flow in the eyes of the reader?”
Source: No Women in Poetry ไม่มีหญิงสาวในบทกวี
“If I wrote what I really think, I would be so sad all the time. We create to fill a gap - not just to avoid the idea of dying, it's to fill some particular gap in ourselves.”
“If I wrote you a love letter, would you write back?”
“If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.”
“If I'd been a rock star, I'd probably now be dead.”
“If I'd been asked to play an Asian man [in Doctor Strange] I would've shown them Benedict Wong.”
“If I'd been born in my grandfather's time, I'd have made my grandfather's mistakes. Theres no doubt of it. I just don't want to make my grandfather's mistakes today.”
“If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder”
“If I'd been four feet tall and fifteen stone, I would certainly not have followed the same career”
“If I'd been listening closely, I'd have caught the sound of the gods having a great big old tee-hee at my expense.”
Source: U is for Undertow: A Kinsey Millhone Novel
“If I'd been offered 'Spider-Man,' I probably would have done it. I don't think it's bad to go and do those things.”
“If I'd been trying to kill him, he'd be dead.”
Source: Graceling
“If I'd been whoring before class and waved a corset at him, no one would have thought twice about it!”
Source: The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:
“If I'd done a quarter of the things of which I'm accused, I'd be pickled in alcohol, I'd be a registered drug addict and would have sired half the children in the world's cricket-playing countries”
“If I'd gone straight to the NBA, I don't think I would have been ready as a player or a person.”
“If I'd gotten the job I wanted at Montgomery Ward, I suppose I would never have left Illinois.”
Source: An American Life: An Enhanced eBook with CBS Video: The Autobiography
“If I'd grown up in Atlanta and then gone to Ottumwa, Iowa it may have been culture shock, but I was used to being in a small town and used to seeing the same people all the time and going to the same grocery store every day, so it wasn't that big of a deal for me. I was just excited to be on TV. I was just jumping for joy when I got there. I wasn't making any money, but I was sure happy.”
“If I'd had a great level of success early on, who knows how I would have responded. I might have been a complete jerk.”
“If I'd had any way of knowing that things were- as Lily Tomlin once said- going to get a whole lot worse before they got worse, I'm not sure how I would have slept that night.”
Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims
“If I'd had covered [ Brett Favre] in Atlanta, I'd presume he'd go down as another Todd Marinovich. Talent out the gills, but lacking the control and discipline to make much of himself.”
“If I'd had fame early on, I'd have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.”
“If I'd had good discipline, I might have gone into music.”
“If I'd had more time or been a better writer, I would have tried to put the same ideas and experiences into a novel. But I didn't so I slapped it up on the Web.”
“If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?”
“If I'd had the nerve, I'd have become a thief or a gangster, but since I didn't, I became a photographer.”
“If I'd had to work at Taco Bell I'd have still been out at night trying to play music.”
“If I'd have gone to art school, or stayed in anthropology, I probably would have ended up back in film ... Mostly I just followed my inner feelings and passions ... and kept going to where it got warmer and warmer, until it finally got hot ... Everybody has talent. It's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is.”
“If I'd just been interested in record sales, I would have taken one of the deals I was offered after 'Soapstar Superstar,' made a quick covers album and probably had some success for five minutes. I decided that wasn't for me.”
“If I'd just paid money to watch a soccer game, I'd want to kill someone too (once the buzz wore off and I realized where I was, because the only thing that would make me pay to watch a soccer game is perhaps a half gallon of whiskey).”
“If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.”
“If I'd kept my heart better armored, where would I be now?”
Source: Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children
“If I'd known how many problems I was going to run into before I finished, I can't remember a single project I would have started.”
Source: Not That You Asked...
“If I'd known how wrong I was - if I'd had any idea of the awful night that lay ahead - I'd have run after him and never returned to that disgusting circus of blood, that revolting circus of death.”
Source: Cirque Du Freak: The Saga of Darren Shan
“If I'd known it was going to be the last time he'd ever hold me, I'd have paid better attention.”
“If I'd known it was going to take 25 years, I'd have started earlier.”
“If I'd known it was harmless, I'd have killed it myself!”