James Patterson Quotes
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When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.
Gabrielle Zevin -
I consider myself not a conservative libertarian but a radical '60s libertarian.
Camille Paglia -
Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.
Walter Kirn -
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 -
Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
Irwin Shaw -
We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.
Adam D'Angelo
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With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.
Hannibal Buress -
Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.
Rachel Cusk -
I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.
Callie Khouri -
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 -
I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.
Laura Bell Bundy -
My highest point was the first thing I won, a short story competition in a women's magazine in the Eighties. It was the first time I'd had my writing validated, and the first thing I'd ever shown anyone else.
Kate Atkinson
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We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential.
Nathan Meyer Rothschild -
I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.
Samantha Shannon -
'Float On' was a fine song, but I was still writing the lyrics on the last day we were working on it and deciding if it was something we wanted to put on the record.
Sir Isaac Brock KB -
Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.
U Thant -
My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I'm concerned, love is absolutely everything.
Taylor Swift -
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.
Flannery O'Connor
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Cheever constantly voiced doubts about his writing. Reading 'The Naked and the Dead' made him despair of his own 'confined talents.'
Geoff Dyer -
Pretty much at all times music motivates me. How can I say this without sounding in any way proud of myself? Obviously I've always written songs that are critical of our government, and talk about our times. Hopefully you attempt to be timeless while doing it.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
Everyone's gone through a breakup, and I've dated girls in the past where... I've never had a messy breakup, thankfully, but I'm never the one to end it. I'm always caught off guard as to why things ended because I guess I'm oblivious in a way.
Charlie Puth -
I'm one of those people who believes you are what you do.
Ann Nocenti -
If I'm writing and a chapter isn't coming, I just move ahead.
James Patterson