Rickey Medlocke Quotes
We just try to write about things that are close to our hearts. We don't sit around trying to write another 'Free Bird' or 'Sweet Home Alabama.'Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd
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So many athletes who have been close to me have been everything to me.
Omari Hardwick -
The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.
Yogi Berra -
I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
Zadie Smith -
I really tend to write in retrospect.
Randy Houser -
It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
Barbara Kingsolver -
I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
Patrick deWitt
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
Octavia E. Butler -
Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.
Gabrielle Zevin -
Love is the funeral of hearts.
Ville Valo HIM -
I just write mechanical things.
Barry Zito -
If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
Ted Rall -
I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.
Taylor Swift
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I never write my stories as a wake-up call as such. I simply explore the kinds of situations that I find personally challenging by placing characters into situations that challenge them in similar ways.
Ted Dekker -
I come from a very hospitable, close, Catholic, matriarchal family.
Francesca Annis -
I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.
Zach Braff -
I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.
Barbara Mertz -
Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what is nurturing.
Patricia MacLachlan -
History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
Ferdinand Marcos
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The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
Maya Angelou -
Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
Joanne Rowling -
We're getting there. We're trying to keep ourselves in ballgames. We just got to close it out.
Baron Davis -
You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself. You learn to watch other people, but you never watch yourself because you strive against loneliness. If you read a book, or shuffle a deck of cards, or care for a dog, you are avoiding yourself. The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all. If it were otherwise, men would never have bothered to make an alphabet, nor to have fashioned words out of what were only animal sounds, nor to have crossed continents - each man to see what the other looked like.
Beryl Markham -
I was a fan of T-Pain's music growing up. I bought 'Epiphany' and 'Rappa Ternt Sanga.'
Quavo Migos -
We just try to write about things that are close to our hearts. We don't sit around trying to write another 'Free Bird' or 'Sweet Home Alabama.'
Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd