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“There aren't that many people who have written seven-book series, taken them 17 years. Actually finishing was (the) most remarkable feeling I've ever had. (I) couldn't tell you which was uppermost - euphoria or feeling devastated.”

People Years Book Feelings Taken Written Series Seven Remarkable Finishing Devastated Euphoria

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Marx's Kapital is not a treatise on socialism; it is a gerrymand against the bourgeoisie. It was supposed to be written for the working class, but the working man respects the bourgeoisie and wants to be a bourgeoisie. Marx never got a hold of him for a moment. It was the revolting sons of the bourgeoisie itself, like myself, that painted the flag red. The middle and upper classes are the revolutionary element in society. The proletariat is the conservative element.”

“I'm eighty-three and homeless. It was the same when World War II ended. The Army kept me on because I could type, so I was typing other people's discharges and stuff. And my feeling was "Please, I've done everything I was supposed to do. Can I go home now?" That what I feel right now. I've written books. Lots of them. Please, I've done everything I'm supposed to do. Can I go home now? I've wondered where home is. It's when I was in Indianapolis when I was nine years old. Had a dog, a cat, a brother, a sister.”

“Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience too great to be borne until it is ordered into words. And then it is written to be shared.”

Needs Writing Kind Pain Joy Written

Author:Madeleine L'Engle

“I think that as a playwright, if I detail that environment, then I'm taking away something from them [designers]. I'm taking away their creativity and their ability to have input themselves, not just to follow what the playwright has written. So I do a minimum set description and let the designers create within that.”

Ifs Thinking Ability Creativity Environment Written Details Designer Description Minimum Playwright Input Playwriting

Author:August Wilson

“You can't imagine the joy I feel when I hear that something I've said or done or written has helped others to regain their sense of dignity, to motivate them to develop their unique potential, to encourage them to reach out to others in love.”

Feels Said Done Joy Imagine Written Unique Dignity Reach Out

Author:Leo Buscaglia

“[As a screenwriter] I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and there comes a time when that which I write has to belong to me, has to be written alone and in silence, with no one looking over my shoulder, no one telling me a better way to write it. It doesn't have to be great writing, it doesn't even have to be terribly good. It just has to be mine.”

Way Writing Mind Rooms Silence Written Mines Quiet Nostalgia Shoulders Balanced Exile Better Ways Screenwriters Great Writing There Comes A Time Quiet Room

Author:Raymond Chandler

“Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality: there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.”

Mind Written Subjects Dull Vitality Dull Minds

Book:The Simple Art of Murder

Source: The Simple Art of Murder

“What worthwhile book after the Pentateuch has been written by a committee?”

Has Beens Book Written Worthwhile Committees

Book:Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?

Source: Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?

“Anything can be said and, in consequence, written about anything.”

Said Written Consequence

Book:Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?

Source: Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?

“It would be a narrow conception of jurisprudence to confine the notion of "laws" to what is found written on the statute books, and to disregard the gloss which life has written upon it.”

Book Would Be Law Found Written Notion Conception Disregard Statutes Gloss Jurisprudence

Author:Felix Frankfurter

“Is that which was deemed to be of so fundamental a nature as to be written into the Constitution to endure for all times to be the sport of shifting winds of doctrine?”

Sports Written Wind Constitution Fundamentals Endure Doctrine All Time Shifting

Author:Felix Frankfurter

“Certain songs have been written years apart, but they have a natural continuity to my mind.”

Years Mind Has Beens Certain Song Natural Written Continuity

Author:Elvis Costello

“I know it's boring to say this but I always start with the script. I mean if it's well written and it's a character that I haven't necessarily played before.”

Ifs Knows Wells Mean Character Written Havens Scripts Boring Well Written

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“My mom was a psychic. And there's a movie called The Gift that I'd written years ago with Cate Blanchett which is loosely based on my mom.”

Years Written Mom Years Ago My Mom Psychics

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“If you've written it you know exactly; whoever you're playing if you've written it you already know it. As a matter of fact, you've already made the movie if you wrote it. You've made it in your head.”

Ifs Knows Made Matter Facts Written Made It Matter Of Fact

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“I've always dabbled. I've always nearly written a book, I've always tried painting, I've always tried to make something out of ideas, really. It was never a plan. I never thought, "Right. First I'll get famous, and then I'll do a book.”

Firsts Book Ideas Plans Written Painting

Author:Ricky Gervais

“I've never written anything that wasn't somewhat of a collaboration. I don't know how people do it on their own.”

People Knows Know How Written Collaboration

Author:Charlie Day

“I'm just very, very slow. I would not make it as a journalist, I've got to tell you. I sweat bullets over every sentence, and sometimes, you know, a day will pass and I've written one paragraph, and I've been at the computer for four hours.”

Knows Sometimes Hours Four Written Computer Sentences Journalist Sweat Bullets Paragraph

Author:Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“I still feel like if I can get a song to work with, say, a basic beat, a rhythm, some chord changes, and a melody, a vocal melody - if it works with that, then I feel it's written and there's something there.”

Ifs Feels Stills I Can Song Written Beats Rhythm Melody Chords Vocal

Author:David Byrne

“With a lot of what we take to be true feelings, especially on pop records, we feel them because they're cleverly crafted. And because the words are written by somebody who knows how to craft words and draw on those things and convey those feelings. That doesn't mean they're dishonest. But it also doesn't mean that it's all just pure primitive emotion spilling out.”

Knows Feels Mean Feelings Emotion Know How Records Written Pure Draws Pops Being True Crafts Primitive Spilling True Feelings

Author:David Byrne

“In all honesty, I've written movies that have been made, and the process has not been as satisfying as writing for television.”

Writing Has Beens Made Process Written Honesty Television Satisfying

Author:Vince Gilligan

“There are great science books that were conceived as books. Feynman's famous introductory lectures in physics, which have a beginning and an end, which are written with style.”

Book Ends Written Style Physics Lectures Great Science Science Books

Author:David Gelernter

“I think the written word is my first love. I was just a very imagination - centered child and a big part of that imaginary life came from reading.”

Thinking Firsts Children Bigs Reading Imagination Written Imaginary First Love Written Word Imaginary Life

Author:Zoe Kazan

“I go through a lot of bad stuff, because most of the stuff that's written is pretty bad. But occasionally something comes along that's good, and I want to do it.”

Want Stuff Written Bad Stuff

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.”

Thinking Individual Written Scene

Book:Further Requirements

Source: Further Requirements

“Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness is the perfect companion to Mindfulness in Plain English. Written with the thoroughness and the masterful simplicity so characteristic of his teaching, Bhante Gunaratana presents essential guidelines for turning the Buddha's teachings on the Eightfold Path into living wisdom.”

Perfect Steps Path Written Teaching Essentials Mindfulness Simplicity Eight Characteristics Companion Guidelines Thoroughness Plain English

Author:Larry Rosenberg

“Reviewing a book written by someone you're living with and sleeping with is, needless to say, wrong.”

Book Sleep Written

Book:The Secret History of Wonder Woman

Source: The Secret History of Wonder Woman

“The first step to finding a God-written love story is handing the pen to the true Author of romance.”

Firsts Stories Romance Steps Written Findings Love Story Pens First Steps

Book:Authentic Beauty, Going Deeper: A Study Guide for the Set-Apart Young Woman

Source: Authentic Beauty, Going Deeper: A Study Guide for the Set-Apart Young Woman

“Grace Kelly was written after these musicians were trying to mold me into what I should be. I was really angry and so I wrote the song and mailed them the lyrics. They didn't call me back, but two years later it's come full circle.”

Should Trying Years Two Song Grace Written Musician Angry Circles Two Years Call Me Mold Full Circle

Author:Mika

“Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.”

Moments Games Sports Written Okay Illness Rejection Prisoner Overcoming Rejection

Author:Lance Armstrong

“He was born a King. The wise men came from the East and asked, 'Where is He that is born King of the Jews?' (Matthew 2:2). He died a King. In Greek, in Latin, and in Hebrew the description was written above His cross, 'This is Jesus, The King' (Matthew 27:37)”

Men Jesus Born Wise Written Kings Crosses Died Jew East Greek Description Latin Hebrew Matthew

Author:W. A. Criswell

“If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.”

Ifs Writing Book Written Distinction Good Book Disgrace

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the Accusation of Sin, as in George Eliot, who plucks her Tito in pieces with as much assurance as if he had been clockwork, literature has begun to change into something else.”

Ifs Spirit Literature Sin Pieces Written Becoming Assurance Accusation Pluck Clockwork Eliot Great Literature Forgiveness Of Sins Tito

Book:Ideas of Good and Evil

Source: Ideas of Good and Evil

“Everyone who has ever written will have discovered that writing always awakens something which, though it lay within us, we failed clearly to recognize before.”

Writing Written Lays

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“I love to read the dedications of old books written in monarchies for they invariably honor some (usually insignificant) knight or duke with fulsome words of sycophantic insincerity, praising him as the light of the universe (in hopes, no doubt, for a few ducats to support future work); this old practice makes me feel like such an honest and upright man, by comparison, when I put a positive spin, perhaps ever so slightly exaggerated, on a grant proposal.”

“I am particularly fond of [Emmanuel Mendes da Costa's] Natural History of Fossils because this treatise, more than any other work written in English, records a short episode expressing one of the grand false starts in the history of natural science and nothing can be quite so informative and instructive as a juicy mistake.”

Natural Mistake Records Written Episodes Fossils Natural Science Juicy Natural History Informative Emmanuel

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“I curse in everyday life, but usually when I stub my toe. The topics I'm discussing, it's not necessary to curse. I found [cursing] is a sign that a joke is not finished or well-written.”

Wells Found Written Jokes Everyday Finished Curse Everyday Life Toes Topics Discussing Cursing Well Written

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“Written words differ from spoken words in being material structures. A spoken word is a process in the physical world, having an essential time-order; a written word is a series of pieces of matter, having an essential space-order.”

World Matter Order Process Space Pieces Written Materials Essentials Structure Series Written Word Spoken Word

Book:The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

“In living literature no person is a competent judge but of works written in his own language. I have expressed my opinion concerning a number of English writers; it is very possible that I may be mistaken, that my admiration and my censure may be equally misplaced, and that my conclusions may appear impertinent and ridiculous on the other side of the Channel.”

May Persons Literature Language Sides Numbers Opinion Written Judging Ridiculous Conclusion Admiration Mistaken Competent Censure Misplaced

Author:François-René de Chateaubriand

“Today's literature: prescriptions written by patients.”

Today Literature Written Patient Prescriptions

Author:Karl Kraus

“Could Hamlet have been written bya committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club? Could the NewTestament have been composed as a conference report?”

Has Beens Written Clubs Reports Committees Conferences Mona Lisa

Author:Alfred Whitney Griswold

“My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.”

Names Written Letters Fiery

Author:Yves Saint Laurent

“If poetry were nothing but texture, [Dylan] Thomas would be as good as any poet alive. The what of his poems is hardly essential to their success, and the best and most brilliantly written pieces usually say less than the worst.”

Ifs Would Be Pieces Alive Written Worst Poet Essentials Dylan Texture

Author:Randall Jarrell

“It amazes me that filmmakers will still film, and audiences will still watch, relationships so bankrupt of human feeling that the characters could be reading dialogue written by a computer.”

Humans Stills Character Feelings Film Reading Watches Audience Written Computer Dialogue Filmmaker

Author:Roger Ebert

“Much has been written about Generation X and the films about it. Clerks is so utterly authentic that its heroes have never heard of their generation. When they think of "X," it's on the way to the video store.”

Thinking Way Has Beens Film Written Generations Heard Hero Stores Video Clerks Generation X

Book:Roger Ebert's Video Companion, 1997 Edition

Source: Roger Ebert's Video Companion, 1997 Edition

“I have read many definitions of what is a conservationist, and written not a few myself, but I suspect that the best one is written not with a pen, but with an axe. It is a matter of what a man thinks about while chopping, or while deciding what to chop. A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke he is writing his signature on the face of his land.”

Thinking Men Writing Matter Faces Written Land Definitions Suspects Pens Strokes Signatures Chopping

Book:A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There

Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There

“The censor is always quick to justify his function in terms that are protective of society. But the First Amendment, written in terms that are absolute, deprives the States of any power to pass on the value, the propriety, or the morality of a particular expression.”

Firsts States Values Term Written Particular Expression Morality Function Absolutes Justify Amendments Freedom Of Speech First Amendment Protective Propriety

Author:William O. Douglas

“If I could come out in this book and advocate complete revolution and the violent overthrow of the United States of America, without being thrown in jail, I would not have written The Anarchist Cookbook, and there would be no need for it.”

Ifs Needs Book States Would Be America United United States Written Revolution Violent If I Could Thrown Jail United States Of America Anarchist Cookbook

Author:William Powell

“Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.”

Said Evil Written Masters Encounters

Author:Denis Diderot

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