V. S. Naipaul Quotes
I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
V. S. Naipaul
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The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway.
Jack Vance
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We know that if you just were to take the drugs that you were supposed to take for diabetes or hypertension, just take it, as opposed to not take it, we could save $7,000, $3,000 per patient per year.
Patrick Soon-Shiong
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I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'
T. J. Miller
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'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.
Aaron Neville
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I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
Venus Williams
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People love to be told what they know already.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I like writing about biology, not doing it.
Kary Mullis
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I love writing songs.
Sade Adu
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I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
Jackson Browne
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One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
Harrison Birtwistle
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Write every day; never give up; it's supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and reward in the act of writing, because you can't look for praise from editors, readers, or critics. In other words, tips that are much easier to give than to take.
J. R. Moehringer
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Writing is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work.
Philip K. Dick
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I'm an internet junkie. There, I said it. That's the first step, right? I also have a thing for making lists. Oh man, nothing beats turning to a fresh, clean page in a notebook, taking out a nice pen, and starting a list. There's so much potential there. So much to do, so little time! So hey, why not spend some of that time making a list.
Adam Christopher
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At Swarthmore, the Dean of Women was very opposed to women going into science or engineering - so opposed that if she couldn't talk a girl out of it, she just never had anything more to do with her for the four years she was there.
Nancy Roman
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It earns you a lot of snark if you're able to convey vulnerability.
Jason Bateman
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The reality is that our God is good. It's in his nature to be good; it's who he is-a giving God, a blessing God, an encouraging God, a nurturing God, an empowering God, a loving God. This is the God who willingly waits for your call.
Bill Hybels
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I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
V. S. Naipaul
