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10211 quotes by 5140 authors
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Morrissey writes wonderful song titles, but sadly he often forgets to write the song.
— Elvis Costello
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I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime
— Anne McCaffrey
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I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young…
— Anne McCaffrey
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I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there…
— Anne McCaffrey
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If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.
— Terry Brooks
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Steven Erikson is an extraordinary writer. I read Gardens of the Moon with great pleasure. And now that I have read it, I would be…
— Stephen R. Donaldson
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I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that,…
— Kathy Acker
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A man writes because he is tormented, because he doubts. He needs to constantly prove to himself and the others that he’s worth something. And…
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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If I were to write anything at all, it would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies. In other words, take 'myself,' subtract…
— Akira Kurosawa
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More than a career, I feel that I've got a function. I see things in a much more holistic way. Some people bake the bread,…
— Jackson Browne
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If you were to write down all the possible ways to motivate people to do better work, friendly praise would have to come near the…
— Hannah Whitall Smith
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The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.
— James A. Michener
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It felt very natural to me to write a Christmas song, but at the same time I had to really put all sorts of pressure…
— Christina Perri
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I put the copy of 'A Christmas Carol' that my grandfather had first read to me 60 years ago on my desk, and I began…
— Whitley Strieber
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People who consistently win have a clear and thoughtful strategy. They know what they need to do and when they need to do it. They…
— Phil McGraw
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Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men…
— Ashley Montagu
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The young women of today, free to study, to speak, to write, to choose their occupation, should remember that every inch of this freedom was…
— Abigail Scott Duniway
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I'm the wife Spike Lee deserves. A white woman, which he says he would never be with, so let's get someone really white. I am…
— Carrie Fisher
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A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.
— Alex Kapranos
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She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book.
— Liam Gallagher
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