David Benioff Quotes

A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter.

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• I guess I went into journalism to save the world. I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.

  

  Carl Honore
  • World
  • Writing
  • Journalism

• All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Writing
  • Storytelling

• Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Writing
  • Football
  • Hurt

• As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Feel
  • Right
  • Sense

• Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Done

• When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Doing

• I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Up
  • Good
  • Writing

• I don't talk about Amy Winehouse as a 'singer.' She's a pioneer. I listened to her endlessly when I started writing.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Writing
  • Talk
  • Singer

• It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Space
  • Understand
  • Far

• Writing an essay is like a school assignment: I have my topic, I organize my thoughts, and I write it. I have complete control over what I'm doing. Writing a novel is like setting out on a journey without knowing who or what I'll encounter, how long it's going to take, or where I'm going to end up.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Up
  • Long
  • Writing

• On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Writing
  • Wise
  • Riches

• Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before 'Tell No One.' I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Book

• Los Angeles County is one of the most park-poor urban areas in the nation, and the San Gabriel Valley - stretching from Pasadena to Pomona - is especially starved for open space.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Space
  • Most
  • Open

• I'm basically a know-it-all, and I'm writing a book about it. I want it to be called 'Danson on Water' and have me on the cover in this Christlike pose, standing on the water.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Want
  • Water
  • Basically

• I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.

  

  Vikram Rohit Shetty
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Army

• I think the adoption rate with respect to social media and how companies leverage that varies by the company. Cisco is probably a leader in the space. A lot of times, we actually use virtual ways to communicate our brand and do some of our advertising, first on the social space, then we do on physical advertising.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Respect
  • Space
  • Leader

• We all need to focus on our writing. Because the millions of readers out there don't care about your blog.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Writing
  • Focus
  • Care

• In writing 'Another Brooklyn,' I had to imagine what happens when friendships dissolve.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • Writing
  • Friendships

• Be ruthless about protecting writing days....althoug h writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have to fight for time in which to do it.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Job

• In a slower economy, companies look for more value. The cloud provides this. So does Big Data.

  

  Aneel Bhusri
  • Value

• It was the 1950s, you know, and they had a ray gun, which was basically a flashlight with a sort of trigger on it. And it buzzed and a red light, you know, came on. But anyway we all had one - Davy Crockett hat.

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • Light
  • Gun
  • Hats

• She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.

  

  Elizabeth Edwards
  • Wind
  • Storm
  • Sails

• A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter.

  

  David Benioff
  • Writing
  • Space