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“Steve Dallas...a frat-boy lawyer who I knew in school. He's never written me. I suspect he was shot by an annoyed girlfriend, which has saved me many legal fees.”

School Boys Written Shots Lawyer Saved Girlfriend Suspects Annoyed Fees Dallas Eve Dallas

Author:Berkeley Breathed

“I don't think I'm such an amazing person who needs to be written about.”

Thinking Needs Persons Written Amazing Person

Author:Amy Winehouse

“A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words.”

Mean Political Social Written Position Written Word

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“It has been suggested that Tiptree is female, a theory that I find absurd, for there is to me something ineluctably masculine about Tiptree’s writing. I don’t think the novels of Jane Austen could have been written by a man nor the stories of Ernest Hemingway by a woman, and in the same way I believe the author of the James Tiptree stories is male.”

Thinking Men Way Writing Believe Has Beens Stories I Believe Novel Written Theory Female Males Absurd Masculine Could Have Been Jane Austen

Author:Robert Silverberg

“If we marvel at the artist who has written a great book, we must marvel more at those people whose lives are works of art and who don't even know it, who wouldn't believe it if they were told. However hard work good writing may be, it is easier than good living.”

People Ifs Knows Writing Believe May Art Book Hard Artist Written Hard Work Easier Works Of Art Good Writing Great Book Good Living

Book:Gates of excellence: on reading and writing books for children

Source: Gates of excellence: on reading and writing books for children

“Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader.”

Whole Stories Reading Asks Imagination Ability Creative Written Reader Pages Whole Life Life Experience Written Word Creative Imagination

Author:Katherine Paterson

“I could have written a story about a well-adjusted family. Ned Stark comes down to King’s Landing and takes over and solves all their problems. Would that have been as exciting?”

Wells Has Beens Stories Problem Written Kings Exciting Solve Landing Starks

Author:George R. R. Martin

“My dreams are the usual incoherent nonsense. Like most writers, at some point in my career I thought, well, I have these great dreams but I always forget them in the morning so I’ll leave a pad on my bedside table so I can write it down, and then you have some incredible dream and you write it down and the next morning you wake up and you’ve written ‘purple socks’.”

Writing Wells I Can Dream Next Forget Careers Morning Written Wake Up Down And Tables Incredibles Nonsense Usual Purple Sock Pads

Author:George R. R. Martin

“Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.”

Way Written Tradition Stronger Marvelous Storyteller Oral Tradition

Author:N. Scott Momaday

“If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?”'afterwards than before There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.”

Ifs Book Stories Might Asks Wise Written Agony Untold Stories

Book:I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

Source: I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

“In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way there are white spaces between written words. We simply hallucinate word boundaries when we reach the end of a stretch of sound that matches some entry in our mental dictionary.”

Source: The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

“I've always written. I'm from an older generation of programmers [who] did not come out of engineering. [A]ll sorts of people were drawn in from the social sciences and humanities.”

People Humanity Social Written Generations Engineering Programmers Social Science Older Generation

Author:Ellen Ullman

“Broken Horses is an artistic triumph. Beautifully written, acted and imaged, this film wraps slowly around you like a king snake and squeezes.”

Film Written Broken Kings Horse Artistic Triumph Snakes Wraps

Author:James Cameron

“As long as woman regards the Bible as the charter of her rights, she will be the slave of man. The bible was not written by a woman. Within its leaves there is nothing but humiliation and shame for her.”

Men Long Rights Written Regard Shame Slave Humiliation Charter

Author:Robert Green Ingersoll

“History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.”

Has Beens Written Motivated

Author:Peter Drucker

“After you've written a story, the thing to do is sell it. Sounds simple, and it is, if one will follow certain basic principles of salesmanship.”

Ifs Stories Certain Sound Simple Principles Written Sells Things To Do Basic Principles Salesmanship

Author:Erle Stanley Gardner

“But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film.”

Film Written Stronger Written Word

Author:Terri Windling

“I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.”

People Matter Names Opinion Struggle Written Paper Lists Sheets Wallets

Book:Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, andLead

Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, andLead

“Trust me, I have never written a speech in my life, and if I have my way, I never will.”

Ifs Way Written Speech My Way Trust Me

Author:Curt Schilling

“Write every day, just to keep in the habit, and remember that whatever you have written is neither as good nor as bad as you think it is. Just keep going, and tell yourself that you will fix it later.”

Thinking Writing Remember Written Habit Keep Going

Author:Jane Smiley

“I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, and can claim to know more about interesting children than most.”

Knows Children Book Play Stories Interesting Written Claims Children Book Story Book

Author:Enid Blyton

“I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.”

Shows Written Havens Willing Love To Read

Author:Abraham Verghese

“Sometimes I wonder if I'm a character being written, or if I'm writing myself.”

Ifs Writing Sometimes Character Wonder Written Sometimes I Wonder

Author:Marilyn Manson

“I had never thought about what it might mean to be deaf, to be deprived of language, or to have a remarkable language (and community and culture) of one’s own. Up to this point, I had mostly thought and written about the problems of individuals–here I was to encounter an entire community.”

Mean Problem Might Culture Individual Language Community Written Encounters Remarkable Deaf Deprived

Author:Oliver Sacks

“And then the really awful thing is that at the end of the day after crying and experiencing things, then you look at what you've written and you're like, 'Hmm, there's half a page that's good here.' Then you throw out everything else.”

Looks Ends Half Written Cry Pages Awful The End Of The Day Hmm Experiencing Things

Author:Zoe Kazan

“I think it takes a lot of desire because I think a lot of people who've never written books don't know quite how hard it is to stick with, to put in the amount of time and just make the commitment to just sit there every day and do it while everybody else is out having fun.”

People Thinking Knows Book Hard Desire Fun Written Amount Commitment Sticks Having Fun

Author:Ted Bell

“I am really looking for a chance to direct. I feel like that's kind of the next frontier for me. I know that it's really hard to do, but I feel like I want to have a chance to try and translate something I've written and try and get a tone across.”

Knows Want Feels Trying Kind Hard Next Chance Written Direct Tone Translate Frontiers

Author:Dana Fox

“For some men, nothing is Written unless they Write it.”

Men Writing Written Arabia

Author:Omar Sharif

“The best introduction by far to representation of the human figure in art. The Nude is a beautifully written work of sophisticated connoisseurship that analyzes art in its own terms rather than imposing strident, politicized categories on it. It outlines the major body types, male and female, in Western art and, via a wealth of illustrations, trains the reader's eye to detect and evaluate proportion. This book reveres art”

“I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.”

Way Want Book Sometimes Certain Written Outlining

Author:Sara Gruen

“Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations anything but its simpler findings.”

Language Written Generations Civilization Succeed Findings Written Language

Author:Charlton Laird

“I begin to perceive that I am a woman. What that is, heaven knows... the philosophy is yet to be written, there is a world to be explored.”

Knows World Philosophy Heaven Written Perceive

Author:Pam Gems

“All my high school papers were written in the rare book room.”

Book School Rooms Written Paper High School Papers

Author:Jim Sanborn

“The biography I've written about Wendy Wasserstein will almost invariably be different than the one anyone else would write.”

Writing Different Written Biographies Wendy

Author:Julie Salamon

“Every time I sit in the audience and watch a show that I have been involved with, it is such an amazing feeling to see all those people around me, knowing they are actually watching and enjoying something I have written.”

People Has Beens Shows Feelings Enjoy Watches Audience Knowing Written Involved

Author:Bjorn Ulvaeus

“I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television.”

Thinking Eye Written Television Industry Public Eye

Author:Roone Arledge

“If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.”

Ifs Should Believe Written Criticize

Author:Buzz Bissinger

“Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Looks Book Different Next Morning Written Writing A Book

Author:Adam Clymer

“Some very plausible stuff is being written by women in a way that most men are not doing.”

Men Way Stuff Written Plausible

Author:Amy Clampitt

“I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons.”

Ideas Written No Idea Cartoon Editorials Readership

Author:Paul Conrad

“I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.”

Feels Causes Written

Author:Iris DeMent

“The really successful work in England tends to be working-class writers telling working-class stories. The film industry has been slow to wake up to that, for a variety of reasons. It still shocks me how few films are written or made in England about working-class life, given that those are the people who go to movies.”

People Has Beens Made Stills Reason Stories Film Given Class Successful Written Industry England Wake Up Variety Shock Working Class Film Industry Successful Work

Author:Stephen Daldry

“Well, there are three different processes of making a film, of course. They're sort of re-written three times. You write it to start with, and then you shoot it and you re-write it while shooting and you sort of re-write it as you edit.”

Writing Wells Different Film Three Courses Process Written Shooting Three Times Edits

Author:Stephen Daldry

“It is only what is written upon the soul of man that will survive the wreck of time.”

Men Soul Written Wrecks

Book:The Works of Francis J. Grimke,̀: Edited by Carter G. Woodson...

Source: The Works of Francis J. Grimke,̀: Edited by Carter G. Woodson...

“I've had offers to sign a record deal, but the people I've talked to have wanted to package me and have me meet with songwriters who've written stuff for Whitney Houston, that sort of thing. That's not at all my style.”

People Wanted Stuff Deals Records Written Style Offers Songwriters Packages Houston Whitney

Author:Lukas Haas

“The Man Who Never Was,' by Ewen Montagu, remains the best book about wartime espionage written by an active participant - incomplete, and dry in parts, it nonetheless summons up the ingenuity and sheer eccentricity of those who played this strange and dangerous game.”

Men Book Games Written Dangerous Strange He Man Remains Active Dry Sheer Incomplete Ingenuity Participants Espionage Eccentricity Wartime

Author:Ben Macintyre

“In Oxford before the war, I had, with this interest in mind, written a short textbook entitled, An Introduction to Economic Analysis and Policy. It was now my intention to rewrite this work.”

Mind War Interest Written Economic Policy Intention Analysis Entitled Introduction Textbooks Oxford

Author:James Meade

“It's funny, when I'm not on the road or doing stuff with Bad Company - or whatever- I've always written songs galore... a lot of stuff people don't even hear.”

People Song Stuff Company Written Bad Company

Author:Mick Ralphs

“Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once you've written it down for permanent, in due time, it'll be proven stupid.”

Ifs Writing Trying Written Mystery Stupid Theory Dues Permanent Proven Due Time

Author:Joey Santiago

“All good music, whatever its date, is ageless - as alive and significant today as it was when it was written.”

Today Alive Written Significant Ageless

Book:The Occasional Writings of Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock): Early music

Source: The Occasional Writings of Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock): Early music

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