Give Quote by Octavia E. Butler Download Open image “I used to give up writing like some people would give up smoking.” — Octavia E. Butler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Give Like People Smoking Some Some people Up Used Would Writing
It's one of the reasons I became a writer, to be able to smoke in peace. — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
I smoke cigarettes when I write, which is disgusting, but it really helps me. — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
The reason I was able to give up smoking was because of the computer. You couldn't lean a cigarette on a computer, like you… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent - or… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
What is your advice to young writers?Drink, fuck and smoke plentyof cigarettes. — Hemantsmarty Copy Share Image
I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The mere habit of writing, of constantly keeping at it, of never giving up, ultimately teaches you how to write. — Gabriel Fielding Copy Share Image
“Writing is a bittersweet addiction. The more it drains you; the more replenished you feel, and you crave it even more.” — Anthea Syrokou Copy Share Image
The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that doesn't exist… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“It’s too easy to follow bad but attractive leaders, embrace pleasurable but destructive habits, ignore looming disaster because maybe it won’t happen after all—or… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“He rubbed his head again. 'Five years is longer than it sounds. So much longer.” — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“Se sono tuoi, stabilisci tu le regole. A chi importa che cosa ne pensano i giocattoli? Spazza via l'intera famiglia di un giocattolo, poi… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
I don't know how much of a market there is for space opera. Just because it's in the movies doesn't mean magazines are buying… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“Freedom is dangerous but it's precious, too. You can't just throw it away or let it slip away. You can't sell it for bread… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I wrote things because I couldn't say them, couldn't sort out my feelings about them, couldn't keep them bottled inside me.” — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“In the book of Job, God says he made everything and he knows everything so no one has any right to question what he does with any of it. Okay. That works. That Old Testament God doesn’t violate the way things are now. But that God sounds a lot like Zeus—a super-powerful man, playing with his toys the way my… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share
“But there’s no power in having strength and brains, and yet waiting for God to fix things for you or take revenge for you.” — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“After a few years of watching the human species make things unnecessarily difficult for itself I have little hope that it will do anything… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“Self is. Self is body and bodily perception. Self is thought, memory, belief. Self creates. Self destroys. Self learns, discovers, becomes. Self shapes. Self… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable with adults… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
I would give anything to be able to kick a ball with my son or read the kids a bedtime story. — Rob Burrow Copy Share Image
Give me an impromptu 50-person guest list, a fold-out emergency trestle table and a pack of frozen vol-au-vent cases and, darlings, I will give… — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
Windmills and solar cells are carbon-free sources of electricity. But they are costly. If you've been investing in those, give it up. That game… — Kenneth Fisher Copy Share Image
I listen to my body, I give it things it wants and I eliminate things it doesn't want. — Britt Ekland Copy Share Image
I can get runs much faster if I stay there in the middle to give bowlers more time and cushion. — K. L. Rahul Copy Share Image
In Congress, Florida Republicans worked with the Trump administration to secure funding for coastal restoration projects following the devastating impacts of Hurricanes Irma and… — Michael Waltz Copy Share Image
In France they spend six months training policemen, then they give them a gun and put them on the streets, and I don't know that that's enough. The film's not against the police - although I think that if someone wants to be a cop there's got to be a problem. — Mathieu Kassovitz Copy Share
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I always advise people not to act upon the advice that I give them. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
My relationship with Ibrahimovic was completely neutral. He is not the type of player to approach the younger players and give them advice. He… — Kingsley Coman Copy Share Image
