Carl Clinton Van Doren Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.
-
I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
-
Yes, we're pretty into books around my house. We have lots and lots of books around. We have TV, but really no one ever watches it.
-
When I write a movie, I write it for me.
-
It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
-
I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.
-
I don't want to be a grown-up anymore; it's hard!
-
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
-
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.
-
I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.
-
The blessings wrestling has given me have allowed me to find some new passions, but it's really hard when you've got that first love, and nothing really replaces it.
-
I write romance because I love to read romance.
-
My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
-
When I get on a roll with something, it's really hard for me to put it down unfinished.
-
People often write after they finish their career, or they don't play anymore, or they are not anymore active. So I say, why do that? And let's do it differently.
-
It's hard to do a reality show when there's so much crying and drama.
-
Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.
-
I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.
-
I don't think of myself as Scottish or lesbian when I sit down and write. I am glad I have broken out of that limited audience.
-
History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
-
It gets too easy to write from the point of view of a male character of my age, with the same cultural frame of reference.
-
You know, people understand fear and opportunity. It may look different, but it's really the same thing.
-
Student loans, Social Security, and Medicare make a difference in the lives of working families every day, and the conversation that should be taking place is how we can save these programs, not weaken them.
-
Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.
