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Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk… — Annie Dillard
Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells… — Robert Rauschenberg
Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg. No matter how… — Haruki Murakami
And as a writer, your self-worth is literally based on the last thing you wrote. — Amy Winehouse
I should think it extremely improbable that anyone ever wrote for money. Naturally, when he has written something, he wants to get as much for… — P.G. Wodehouse
Treasure nothing, be willing to throw out anything. The story you just wrote that you are proud of should not be coddled and worshipped. You… — J. Robert Lennon
The most important thing for me when I wrote [Origins] was that at the end even if Morrigan loved the player, she had this thing… — David Gaider
I'd like to be remembered as a guy that came along and did his music, did his best and showed up on time, clean and… — Buck Owens
Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote. — James Garner
I was just 20 years old when I wrote Broken Arrow. — Neil Young
When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time,… — Nancy O'Dell
I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and… — Jim Carrey
One lady wrote me and told me how she wants to see me get beat up and near death and that kind of stuff. — George Eads
Shakespeare wrote, Einstein thought, Ataturk built. — William J. Clinton
I don't think people are fans of me because I wrote hit songs. I think they're fans because I'm a lunatic or a weirdo. The… — Billy Corgan
I wrote my friend a letter using a highlighting pen. But he could not read it, he thought I was trying to show him certain… — Mitch Hedberg
I wrote 'Big Yellow Taxi' on my first trip to Hawaii. I took a taxi to the hotel and when I woke up the next… — Joni Mitchell
It is immature and lazy to imagine we know everything there is to know about someone before we know that someone. We don't know their… — Jen Hatmaker
If you wrote something, you deserve to get paid and recognized for your work. No one should take a bow with another man's hat. — Ronald Isley
When I wrote the first [Bond novel] in 1953, I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened... when I… — Ian Fleming

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