Larry Gelbart Quotes
I know one thing - very few writers in Southern California get to write what they want to write. We are more or less worker ants, working for either film companies or tv companies or Internet companies. We do a lot of assigned work. Feelings hardly ever enter into it. If they do, they tend to be on a sort of soap opera level.Larry Gelbart
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My first Comic-Con was when I first met Joss Whedon: He introduced me to that world and I'd never been to a convention before that. He and a bunch of the 'Buffy' and 'Angel' writers were all going down in a big van and he invited me along.
Nathan Fillion -
I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
Harlan Coben -
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 -
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 don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.
Wayne Dyer
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
Octavia E. Butler -
Writers are storytellers. So are readers.
Oliver North -
I write romance because I love to read romance.
Rachel Gibson -
When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.
Umberto Eco -
I just write mechanical things.
Barry Zito -
I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.
Taylor Swift
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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 love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.
Tanith Lee -
I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.
Taylor Swift -
If you can write it, I can be it.
Karen Black -
I write to escape; to escape poverty.
Edgar Rice Burroughs -
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
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You write about what you know.
Larry David -
I think great songs can come from anywhere and you constantly have to be able to look out for those. I think a lot of the times people will try too hard to write everything themselves and therefor miss out on great songs that way.
Jason Aldean -
Wagner's philosophy had absolutely nothing to do with Bruckner. Bruckner hadn't written a single word against Jews. Wagner's book on the Jews was one of the most infamous books of the 19th century.
Zubin Mehta -
It's, like, your classic journey from a drama school. I went straight to the three-year acting degree, and I waitressed throughout that to support myself and for the first six months after I graduated. Then I started to get commercials here and there, and then I got a couple of roles in Australia and then a more regular role on a TV series.
Yvonne Strahovski -
I know one thing - very few writers in Southern California get to write what they want to write. We are more or less worker ants, working for either film companies or tv companies or Internet companies. We do a lot of assigned work. Feelings hardly ever enter into it. If they do, they tend to be on a sort of soap opera level.
Larry Gelbart