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“You can't write a song out of thin air. You have to feel and know what you are writing about. ... Talent is only a starting point. You've got to keep working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there. ... Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it. ... The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. ... After you get what you want you don't want it. ... Listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies. ... The song is ended, but as the songwriter wrote, the melody lingers on.”
“You can't write a term paper before breakfast.”
“You can't write about a friend, you can only write about a former friend.”
“You can't write about a horrible restaurant - if it's a Ma & Pa restaurant no one wants to see you kick Ma & Pa in the chops.”
“You can't write about history without writing about politics at some point. History is about movements of people. 'What is criminality and what is government' is a theme that runs through every history.”
“You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.”
Source: Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations
“You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence.”
“You can't write about things without doing them. You just have to live that same way.”
“You can't write drunk.”
“You can't write for the cultural environment - if you do that, by the time it comes out, that cultural environment has passed. You have to be aiming for something that's original - that's the only way you can have any kind of impact.”
“You can't write good characters if you can't imagine what it's like being in another person's skin. And if you can imagine that, you naturally want other people's lives to be better. You want to make that happen.”
“You can't write good satirical fiction in America because reality will quickly outdo anything you might invent.”
“You can't write if you can't relate.”
“You can't write nothing that ain't real.”
“You can't write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.”
“You can't write poetry on the computer.”
“You can't write something actively trying to please everyone - you're going to end up with watery soup that way. You just have to write stories you would want to read and hope that people like them.”
“You can't write something to please someone.”
“You can't write the same book twice. Though I've been in historical musical situations, I can't go back and do that again. And though I run into artistic crises, they keep my life interesting.”
“You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else.”
“You can't write your life story and leave out one of the most important things that happened to you in your life. I think that that would be dishonest, and it would be something people would be very angry about.”
“You can't, Brooke, you can't leave. You're mine”
“You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.”
Source: Complete Short Stories of Joseph Conrad (Including His Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays: Unforgettable Tales like Heart of Darkness, Point of Honor, Falk, Secret Sharer, The Return & Freya of Seven Isles
“You can't, or you shouldn't, be nominated for an Oscar unless you've turned in a performance that's special.”
“You can't," I murmured, swallowing the tears back with great effort. "You can't keep saving me, can't keep trying to. It's too late." "No," he said. His heart was in his eyes, and it was ripping mine apart. "Not for you. Never.”
Source: Succubus Heat
“You can't. Do you hear me? You think you've figured something out? You run over here so pleased with yourself because you changed your mind. Now you're certain. You're so... sloppy. You don't know anything. The book, the math, the dates, the writing, all that stuff you decided with your buddies, it's just evidence. It doesn't finish the job. It doesn't prove anything.”
“You can't. You just have to.”
Source: Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner
“You can, after all, reduce the reasons for watching TV to but two: to be lulled, and to be stimulated. Some people do one sometimes, the other sometimes. Some people do all of one or all of the other.”
Source: Cavett
“You can, in short, lead the life of the mind, which is, despite some appalling frustrations, the happiest life on earth. And one day, in the thick of this, approaching some partial vision, you will (I swear) find yourself on the receiving end of - of all things - an "idea for a story," and you will, God save you, start thinking about writing some fiction of your own. Then you will understand, in what I fancy might be a blinding flash, that all this passionate thinking is what fiction is about, that all those other fiction writers started as you did, and are laborers in the same vineyard.”
“You can, legally, possibly hit and kill a fellow golfer with a ball, and there will not be a lot of trouble because the other golfers will refuse to stop and be witnesses because they will want to keep playing.”
“You can, of course, be a sexy, strong female and be a good role model.”
“You can, when Time is ripe, swope to your feet - at your full height - at a single gesture. Ready to go where? Why... Wherever God motions.”
“you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”
Source: On Writing
“You can,t make yourself happy by causing other peoples misery -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys”
“You can`t differentiate between an Islamic terrorist and a Christian terrorist. Or a politically motivated terrorist who`s anti-abortion or someone who may have differing views.”
“You can`t use hair spray, because hair spray is going to affect the ozone. I`m trying to figure out - okay, I`m in my room in New York City and I want to put a little spray, so that I can - all right? Right?”
“You canna expect to be baith grand and comfortable.”
“You cannot "love" a dog out of her bad behavior, just as you can't "love" a criminal into stopping his crimes.”
Source: Cesar's Way: The Natural, Everyday Guide to Understanding and Correcting Common Dog Problems
“You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject.”
“You cannot accomplish anything in this world without power,' he said. 'And power requires sacrifice, focus, and ruthlessness.”
Source: The Serpent and the Wings of Night
“You cannot accurately remember color.”
Source: Light, Gesture, and Color
“You cannot achieve anything more than you see; all that you see has been given unto you.”
Source: Average to Abundant: How Ordinary People Build Sustainable Wealth and Enjoy the Process
“You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.”
“You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage.”
“You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage. Imagine how happy I felt when I got relief from bladder pressure. How long did that happiness last?”
“You cannot achieve someone else's goals.”
“You cannot achieve success without the risk of failure. And I learned a long time ago, you cannot achieve success, if you fear failure. If you're not afraid to fail, man, you have a chance to succeed. But you're never gonna get there unless you risk it, all the way. I'll risk failure. Sometimes, half the fun is failing. Learning from your mistakes, waking up the next morning, and saying 'Okay. Watch out. Here I come again. A little bit smarter, licking my wounds, and really not looking forward to getting my ass kicked the way I just did yesterday.' So now, I'm just a little more dangerous.”
“You cannot achieve success without the risk of failure...You cannot achieve success if you FEAR failure.”
“You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.”
Source: Notebooks
“You cannot acquire the gift of peace if by your anger you destroy the peace of the Lord.”