I write Quote by Elif Batuman Download Open image “A lot of what I write is very personal.” — Elif Batuman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare I write Lot Personal Very Write Writing
Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write. — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
It's hard for me to write about anything personal because I get way too personal. — Angela Alioto Copy Share Image
Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way. — Suzanne Vega Copy Share Image
To me, writing is a personal thing; I write super-personal, autobiographically. — Troye Sivan Copy Share Image
I like to write things to be personal, so I just put what I'm thinking about at the time. — Sofia Coppola Copy Share Image
My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people. — Paul Thomas Anderson Copy Share Image
My parents were born into a secular country. They met in Turkey's top medical school, moved to America in the nineteen-seventies, and became researchers… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“I leafed through the phrase book. If a Martian read it, the Martian would probably decide to avoid Hungary.” — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
You can't invent something you have no epistemological access to. In a way, it's all recombination. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Poetry is another space, like love, where we extend that extra credit to the writer. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“Svetlana said that she identified with that Madonna more than with any other woman in any other painting. She kept asking me what painting… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
One of the most painful parts of a breakup is having the feeling that your life is a story, and then the other person… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“Dracula visited the Wolf Department at the Zoological Gardens. "These wolves seem upset at something," he observed. The next morning the cage was all… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I like to think that I know a lot of words, but I definitely don't know all of them. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“I don't know if I ended up siding with the academics just because I happened to end up in graduate school, or if I… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
People don't become writers because they love having spontaneous, real-world interactions with living people as bodies with clothes in time. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“Each work of criticism is supposed to build on the body of work, to increase the total sum of human understanding. It's not like… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Humor is really important to me. All my favorite writers are writers I consider to be funny, including Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, even though that's… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
I write about presidents. That means I write about guys - so far. I'm interested in the people closest to them, the people they… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
Everything I write is highly personal, but put in such a way that it's not dropping everything in someone's lap. Although sometimes I think… — Jane Siberry Copy Share Image
I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
Regardless of what I do, whether I write a book or whether I act or whether I host, I'll always do stand-up comedy because… — Howie Mandel Copy Share Image
Some people don't like my songs because they think they're too simple or easy or not that thought-out. I feel like the way I… — Langhorne Slim Copy Share Image
Recently a study proved that working from a larger, less cluttered computer screen increases concentration. I could have told them that. And yes, I… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
I write at a desk. I have a room of my own where I can have my computer. I write in there, usually directly… — Eve Bunting Copy Share Image
The thing is I write to music, so every script I have has its own playlist. Music just opens me up to the emotions… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
