Jizzy Pearl (James Wilkinson) Quotes
I write about things, recent experiences, people around me, some not so affectionately. I’d like to think I’m a little past writing about beer and chicks - unless it’s about my wife, who is a cool chick.
Jizzy Pearl
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In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.
Salman Rushdie
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
When I write a movie, I write it for me.
Taylor Sheridan
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
I was always falling in love at a very young age - kindergarten is when I can remember. There was always a crush. And when I was in sixth grade, I started picking up guitar, so I started wanting to write about it and sing about it.
Babyface
Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
Ian Rankin
Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.
Zygmunt Bauman
To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.
Barry Manilow
I don't write books inadvertently.
A. N. Wilson
I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life. She's like, 'I can't read, I can't write; I can tell you who I was working for, and I can tell you the year, but who was president?'
Tate Taylor
I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.
Padma Lakshmi
My son, Sanjay, and I discuss a lot of things. Like, he gives me feedback on my films and what his friends say at school.
Vijay
For every child of an illegal immigrant who's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds and they've got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert
Michael C. Burgess
What sets 'Some Nights' apart from anything we've ever done is the hip-hop influence. Not so much the actual sound of hip-hop, but more the vibrato and the artistry that comes with it. Right now, the artists that seem to be pushing to be the greatest artists and are trying to change the world are hip-hop artists.
Jack Antonoff
Fun.
There is always a temptation to take things for granted, to get lazy, and to presume that the reader knows more than they do.
Philip Kerr
I write about things, recent experiences, people around me, some not so affectionately. I’d like to think I’m a little past writing about beer and chicks - unless it’s about my wife, who is a cool chick.
Jizzy Pearl