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The world is a stage we walk upon. We are all in a way fictional characters who write ourselves with our beliefs. — Louis Theroux
It actually got me upset reading about adopted children. They become junkies or criminals or actors. I wanted to write a book from the children's… — Michael Nyqvist
Fans always write asking why I didn't smile more in films. I smiled in `Annie Laurie`, but I can't recall that it helped much. — Lillian Gish
I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write. — Mary Archer
I think every young cook wants to write a book. — Thomas Keller
So I started to relax and would work on my act eight hours a day, sitting at a desk writing at my grandmother's house, and… — George Lopez
To say that George Lucas cannot write a love scene is an understatement; greeting cards have expressed more passion. — Roger Ebert
Just write, get better, keep writing, keep getting better. It's the only thing you can control. — Roger Ebert
As a historian I understand how histories are written. My enemies will write histories that dismiss me and prove I was unimportant. My friends will… — Newt Gingrich
Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula. — Dirk Benedict
I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom. — Clifton Webb
All I did was write it down, one word after the other, beginning and ending with the same one, Bombay. — Jeet Thayil
Write what you know. Write what you don't know. But most of all, write what you'd rather not know. — Sam Lipsyte
Wesley Stace has always been the only genuinely gifted fiction writer who also happens to be a rock star, but Wonderkid is the book he… — Sam Lipsyte
Rod Clark has one of the most unique voices I have ever encountered. I still quote some of his political insights years later. To have… — Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Mostly, you become a writer not because you want to get rich or famous, but because you have to write; because there is something inside… — Gene Weingarten
Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off? — Padgett Powell
If you could have a famous writer, dead or alive, write an obituary for you and really puff you up to have been something you… — Padgett Powell
We all get habituated, right? You get up in the morning, have your coffee, and read your newspaper, and thatâ€™s great. Everybody loves life in… — Dorianne Laux
Someone spoke to me last night,/ told me the truth. Just a few words,. but I recognized it./ I knew I should make myself get… — Dorianne Laux

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