Doris Lessing Quotes
I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.
Doris Lessing
Quotes to Explore
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'Skins' is about a group of teenagers in Bristol, and it's all about what they get up to and all the different things they do. I think it's a good show because it's come from a very real place, and there's a lot of young people involved in the writing.
Hannah Murray
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The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.
Natalie Dormer
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Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.
Caleb Landry Jones
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I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.
Camila Cabello
Fifth Harmony
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I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.
Kami Garcia
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Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
E. L. Doctorow
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You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking.
Wayne Kramer
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Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.
Larry Hagman
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Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
Irwin Shaw
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I'm a big reader, so when I was in 'Pride and Prejudice,' or, like, in Poirots and Marples, those are all books that I loved, and so it was really exciting for me to inhabit characters from literature that I knew and recognized.
Talulah Riley
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The thing that makes writing so difficult is you don't have the element of serendipity. At least with a photograph, you can set up the camera, and something might happen. You might be a lousy photographer, but you can get a good picture if you just take enough of them.
Sally Mann
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The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
A. B. Yehoshua
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Because I find writing painful, I try to get it over with as fast as possible. But I write every day, or I lose the thread.
Patrick Modiano
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
W. Somerset Maugham
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We all need to focus on our writing. Because the millions of readers out there don't care about your blog.
J. A. Konrath
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I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.
Verite
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Nobody's going to write a book about me, because nobody's going to find anything worth writing a book about.
Jack Kent Cooke
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I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white, and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time, but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent, and I'm not your mommy; I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.
Aaron Sorkin
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When I'm writing the text for a book like 'Little White Rabbit,' I read it aloud, alone, in my studio, again and again and again - because the rhythm has to be exactly right. After I get my manuscript to the point where I think it is perfect, I begin to think about what I want the art to look like.
Kevin Henkes
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When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near.
Samuel Hoffenstein
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You don't have to make things which are just expensive.
Pier Luigi Loro Piana
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A radio play actually ended up being the first acting job I ever had. A lot of times when I'm on camera, I'm playing characters that are more like myself, and I don't get to do a lot of real character work. But when you're doing animation, you are the very epitome of colorful characters. I think I'm just really into make believe.
Virginia Madsen
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I think it's a very ephemeral thing, what makes a show a success.
Douglas Carter Beane
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I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.
Doris Lessing
