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“My '60s plays were as good as most of the other plays I've written ... except I wasn't in a condition to refine them, to help in the rehearsal, or do anything. I was hardly conscious of what was going on except during the hours of the day when I was actually writing ... and that was with the aid of speed.”

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Author:Tennessee Williams

“I should say that I'm not conscious of any particular style or any particular literary device when I am writing. I have written 22 books, and they are all very different. I have tried all kinds of genres.”

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Author:Isabel Allende

“One of the fundamental issues with The Vatican is that the world changed on us. That show was conceived and written while Pope Benedict was still in charge of the Vatican, and it was conceived in a world that now would feel very dated.”

World Feels Stills Shows Issues Written Changed Fundamentals Pope Pope Benedict

Author:David Nevins

“I got really interested in the language used in blogs written by young girls - a young person's aggression, which is always lacking from the visual world.”

World Persons Young Used Girl Language Written Visuals Aggression Lacking Blogs

Author:Jenny Hval

“I love making the backstory for myself. I think it's important. Every part I play, I work on the backstory. If it's fully written out in the script, or there are intimations of it in the script, fine. If not, fine, no problem. I'll fill it in, or I'll create what it is.”

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Author:Jeffrey DeMunn

“Most of the guys like sticking to the script and doing just what's written. If they're exploring, they're exploring ways of doing the script.”

Ifs Way Guy Written Scripts Exploring

Author:Jon Turteltaub

“History is written by the winners. The books say the Indians were bad guys and the whites just needed a little land. It's like, Excuse me, let me take your car. I'm discovering it. I'm putting my flag on your windshield.”

Littles Book Guy Written Land Car Needed Let Me Excuse Winner Flags Discovering Bad Guys Excuse Me

Author:Mario Van Peebles

“The difference between America and England is that the English think 100 miles is a long distance and the Americans think 100 years is a long time. The difference between an autobiography and an unauthorized biography is like the difference between an account of your life written by your mother and one written by your mother-in-law.”

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Author:Marilyn vos Savant

“I'm probably the only bestselling author you know who's written more books than she's read.”

Knows Book Written

Author:Suze Orman

“I hate to write, but I love to have written.”

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Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“You can sing a very aggressive word in such a way that it's very funny. You can change words, completely turn them around on their head so that they mean exactly the opposite of what they are written down. There are endless possibilities which I think Diamanda Galás is doing already. She turns everything upside down by the way she sings it. She makes you feel nauseous or horrified or ridiculous just by her voice. I think that's an incredible power.”

Thinking Way Feels Mean Turns Voice Written Possibility Opposites Incredibles Ridiculous Endless Aggressive Upside Down Gals Endless Possibilities

Author:PJ Harvey

“I do think that just about whenever I am writing, or more accurately, whenever I have written, I feel better and more at peace as a human being. That doesn't mean, unfortunately, that the literary product is any good.”

Thinking Feels Writing Humans Mean Human Beings Written Products Feel Better

Author:Rick Moody

“There is abundant evidence that the Bible, though written by men, is not the product of the human mind. By countless multitudes it has always been revered as a communication to us from the Creator of the Universe.”

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Author:John Ambrose Fleming

“People in general know not what wickedness there is in this pretended word of God. Brought up in habits of superstition, they take it for granted that the Bible is true, and that it is good; they permit themselves not to doubt of it, and they carry the ideas they form of the benevolence of the Almighty to the book which they have been taught to believe was written by his authority. Good heavens! It is quite another thing; it is a book of lies, wickedness, and blasphemy.”

Source: Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion

“The necessity of the idea creates its own style. The material itself dictates how it should be written.”

Should Ideas Written Style Materials

Author:William Faulkner

“My last point about getting started as a writer: do something first, good or bad, successful or not, and write it up before approaching an editor. The best introduction to an editor is your own written work, published or not. I traveled across Siberia on my own money before ever approaching an editor; I wrote my first book, Siberian Dawn, without knowing a single editor, with no idea of how to get it published. I had to risk my life on the Congo before selling my first magazine story. If the rebel spirit dwells within you, you won't wait for an invitation, you'll invade and take no hostages.”

“Everything written, if it has anything in it, will offend someone, and if the mere taking of offence was to amount to a licence to kill the offender, well the world would be sadly underpopulated of novelists, columnists, bloggers, and the writers of editorials.”

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Author:Rex Murphy

“Perhaps no more beautiful passages have ever been written about the Savior's atonement and crucifixion than those written by Isaiah.”

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Author:Jeffrey R. Holland

“You can't expect that, after a poor fellow has written a book, he should also understand it.”

Should Book Poor Written Fellows

Author:Giovannino Guareschi

“Pictures are written, acted, directed, photographed, edited, scored and all that. The screenwriter determines what scenes are in and what scenes are out; decides whether that bit of information is dramatized or just referred to; whether it takes place on or off screen. There are millions of decisions made by the screenwriter.”

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Author:Ernest Lehman

“I love actors. I enjoy their company, and I get excited each and every time they bring a character I've written to life. Every so often a talented actor doesn't hook in correctly to a character; or someone gets lost in a labyrinth of over-complicated thoughts, and the character and play suffer. However, most of the time I find actors either end up doing exactly what was in my head, or sometimes do something even better.”

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Author:Christopher Durang

“It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.”

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Book:The collected works of Aldous Huxley

Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley

“Novels are completed when they are finished, but the memoir changes its own conclusion by virtue of being written... I was not at all the same person, when I handed the manuscript to the publisher, as I had been when I began. A memoir may always be retrospective, but the past is not where its action takes place.”

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Author:Nuala O'Faolain

“If I hadn't had my children, I wouldn't have written more and better, I would have written less and worse.”

Ifs Children Written My Children

Book:Dance on the earth: a memoir

Source: Dance on the earth: a memoir

“I don't know about you, but I've saved cards that old high school flames wrote me as well as those that employees have written me over the years. The power of genuine, customized appreciation will never lose its value, even in a gloomy economy... in fact, it's probably what we're all thirsty for in this desert of a depression.”

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Author:Chip Conley

“As for thinking time versus writing time, well, that's up to you. But - and I wish it were otherwise - books don't get written by thinking about them, they get written by writing them. And that's when you make discoveries about what you're writing. That's when you get the happy accidents.”

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Author:Neil Gaiman

“We're supposed to have guns. It says so in the Bible; and the second greatest book ever written, the Texas State Constitution.”

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Author:George W. Bush

“The Baseball Hall of Fame is something every player dreams about, but being a member of God's Hall of Fame is the greatest achievement of all. God offers each of us the gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ. When we accept God's gift of salvation, our name is written in the Book of Life, guaranteeing us a place in heaven forever. I made that decision during spring training in 1973, asking Jesus to come into my heart as Lord and Savior.”

“If you had told me in the Seventies and Eighties that TV would be as edgy or edgier than most films, and more intelligently written than most films, I wouldn't have believed it. There's great stuff out there.”

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Author:Jonathan Banks

“I am a writer who has written about the life of my people, the character of my people. What I can say is that the greatest hero of the Brazilian novel is the Brazilian people.”

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Author:Jorge Amado

“Education is a technology that tries to make up for what the human mind is innately bad at. Children don't have to go to school to learn how to walk, talk, recognize objects, or remember the personalities of their friends, even though these tasks are much harder than reading, adding, or remembering dates in history. They do have to go to school to learn written language, arithmetic, and science, because those bodies of knowledge and skill were invented too recently for any species-wide knack for them to have evolved.”

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Author:Steven Pinker

“Let us think of a Christian believer in whose life the twin wonders of repentance and the new birth have been wrought. He is now living according to the will of God as he understands it from the written Word. Of such a one it may be said that every act of his life is or can be as truly sacred as prayer or baptism or the Lord's Supper. To say this is not to bring all acts down to one dead level; it is rather to lift every act up into a living kingdom and turn the whole of life into a sacrament.”

“It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected in the Sanskrit language is less valuable than what may be found in the paltry abridgements used at preparatory schools in England.”

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Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.”

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Author:Miguel de Icaza

“The greater the novel, the more it is apt to embody the special, non-replicable properties of the written medium.”

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Author:Joseph O'Neill

“If man had written the Gospels - say Shakespeare or Eugene O'Neill - the story of the gospel would have been drastically different. They would have placed the prince in halls and palaces and had him walking among the great. They would have had him surrounded by the important and significant of the time. Potentates and kings would have been His companions. But how sweetly common was the real God-man; though He had inhabited all eternity, He had come down and was subject to the rising and the setting of the sun.”

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Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Who can doubt that God created us to be happy, and thereto made us to love one another? It is plainly written as Gospel. The heart is sometimes so embittered that nothing but Divine love can sweeten it, so enraged that devotion can only becalm it, and so broken down that it takes all the forces of heavenly hope to raise it. In short, the religion of Jesus Christ is the only sure and controlling power over sin.”

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Author:Francis Marion

“The words and lives of Christian men must be in continual process of reformation by the written Word of their God. This means that ecclesiastical traditions and private theological speculations may never be identified with the word which God speaks, but are to be classed among the words of men which the Word of God must reform.”

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Book:Fundamentalism

Source: Fundamentalism

“In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed.”

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Book:Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals

Source: Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals

“The Constitution of this government was written by men who accepted Jesus Christ as the Savior of mankind. Let men and women in these United States then continue to keep their eyes centered upon Him who ever shines as a Light to all the world.”

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Author:David O. McKay

“A Marxist has never written a good novel.”

Novel Written Marxist

Author:Isaac Bashevis Singer

“What is written is more influential than what is said.”

Said Written Influential

Author:James Cook

“A recent study by David Green and Laura Casper, 'Delay, Denial and Dilution,' written for the London-based Institute of Economic Affairs, concludes that the World Health Organization calculated that Britain has as many as 25,000 unnecessary cancer deaths a year because of under-provision of care.”

Source: American Contempt for Liberty

“The global warming scare has provided a field day for politicians and others who wish to control our lives. After all, only the imagination limits the kind of laws and restrictions that can be written in the name of saving the planet.”

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Author:Walter E. Williams

“Most Americans, who think Congress has a right to do anything for which they can get a majority vote, ignore the clearly written constitutional restraints on Congress.”

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Author:Walter E. Williams

“I realize that the New York Times probably not written for the express purpose of driving me mad; I think of it as liberalism's daily bulletin board.”

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Author:Joseph Sobran

“When I submitted samples, I had only written stories to give myself something to draw. I was told, "The art is good, but not quite professional yet. But, I like the writing." I've been a writer for almost a half a century. It's very cool.”

Giving Writing Art Stories Half Written Century Draws Art Is Sample Very Cool Half A Century

Author:Len Wein

“It's very hard to be a screenwriter. I remember getting a couple of awards. I got a PEN West award a million years ago when I did Running on Empty, and I sat in the room with all these writers. They wrote everything from novels to non-fiction to children's books to journalism - any kind of writing - and I realized that there was no one in the room who would ever read anything I'd written.”

“I've been on lots of film sets. I've produced films and written films and been around, so it wasn't my first rodeo in terms of that stuff. Nothing particularly surprised me, I have to say. I came in and I enjoyed the first day and I enjoyed the last day.”

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Author:Dan Mazer

“Making your bed could be a piece of art, and writing a book could be a piece of art. You could also write a book that's not a piece of art, but that is a book, and it could be a book that was written by an artist.”

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Author:Matthew Brannon

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