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I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different… — Emma Thompson
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write. — William Makepeace Thackeray
When I went to Hong Kong, I knew at once I wanted to write a story set there. — Paul Theroux
You can't write about a friend, you can only write about a former friend. — Paul Theroux
I know there are writers who feel unhappy with domesticity and who even manufacture domestic turmoil in order to have something to write about. With… — Paul Theroux
Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more driven by profits… — Paul Theroux
People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for a bus. They write about waiting. They write… — Paul Theroux
I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not… — Brad Thor
Senorita was fun to sing, but I don't really have a favorite. When you write a bunch of songs, they're like your babies. You don't… — Justin Timberlake
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. — Henry David Thoreau
If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things. — Henry David Thoreau
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are. — Henry David Thoreau
It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass. — Gene Tierney
In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. — Alvin Toffler
Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly… — Pete Townshend
I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they… — Pete Townshend
If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny. — Calvin Trillin
You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?' And I… — Calvin Trillin
It's not like I'm anti-China. I just think it's ridiculous that we allow them to do what they're doing to this country, with the manipulation… — Donald Trump

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