Iris Murdoch Quotes
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.Iris Murdoch
Quotes to Explore
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I have never believed in the impossible.
Faye Wattleton -
Love can never be fully explained.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.
Rachel Stevens -
I never do anything out of my comfort zone.
Danica Patrick -
I read my books to writing workshops and friends, and I'm often focussed just on keeping them entertained. I never think about marketing at all.
Karen Joy Fowler -
I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.
Randy Newman
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I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.
Ted Chiang -
It feels a little bit odd to me that you have some guys that have never lived in the United States that play for the United States because they were able to secure a passport. To me, that just feels like they weren't able to make it for their country and earn a living, so they're coming here.
Abby Wambach -
Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.
Padgett Powell -
I love writing songs.
Sade Adu -
Normally, most writers don't say, 'I'm going into a mild hypnotic trance.' Typically, they don't know how they do it. Most people, when they have a good experience writing, they're well placed in that state, which is also sometimes called a 'flow state.' If you don't have trouble, you don't have to think about it.
Madison Smartt Bell -
You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.
Barbara Bush
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I could never take orders from anyone.
Gautam Adani -
Money is a bubble that never pops. It's a consensus hallucination.
Naval Ravikant -
My whole outlook on life is, never judge a book by its cover.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.
Samantha Shannon -
It was never my goal to be an actor.
Rachel Hurd-Wood -
I've never worried about life's big questions.
Karl Pilkington
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In my mind, the plays I was writing were extreme examples of art for art's sake. I didn't necessarily think that other people would love them, though I thought they probably would.
Wallace Shawn -
Between Twitter and Facebook, early word of mouth for a film can destroy it immediately or take something you've never heard of and make it a huge hit.
Dana Brunetti -
Growing up a lonely only child prepared me for the years of solitude spent as a writer; years spent in the company of people who don't exist, imaginary people you have conversations with. It's a paid form of madness, this writing stuff.
Debi Gliori -
Where we see corruption and can make a case against it, we're being aggressive.
Josh Hawley -
I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.
Flora Lewis -
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
Iris Murdoch