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
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
I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'
T. J. Miller
'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
I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
Venus Williams
People love to be told what they know already.
P. J. O'Rourke
I like writing about biology, not doing it.
Kary Mullis
I love writing songs.
Sade Adu
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
I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
Jackson Browne
One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
Harrison Birtwistle
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
