Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Quotes to Explore
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I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
Harlan Coben -
I am not an autobiographical writer.
Yann Martel -
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 like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
P. J. O'Rourke -
I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.
Barbara Palvin -
It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
Barbara Kingsolver
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I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
Patrick deWitt -
I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
Laura Moser -
I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.
Wayne Dyer -
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
Octavia E. Butler -
I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
Hannah Kent -
I write romance because I love to read romance.
Rachel Gibson
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I just write mechanical things.
Barry Zito -
If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
V. S. Naipaul -
My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
Wendi Deng Murdoch -
I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
Iris Johansen -
Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
Rabih Alameddine -
I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.
Taylor Swift
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My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever.
Irwin Shaw -
The more you walk in relationship with the Lord, the more you learn to trust him. I'm learning not to focus so much on the issues I think are so big right now-our bus has broken down, or someone said something that frustrated me. I'm learning to slowly let things roll off my back, to say, 'Hey, God knew about this before it happened and He's got a way out or a plan better than mine.' I've learned to stop freaking out and just trust that God knows what he's doing. He's not going to leave me in a bad place because He never has before.
Francesca Battistelli -
I found it hard being a full-time mum and take my hat off to anyone who can do it.
Laura Fraser -
As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez