Pearl Cleage Quotes
I think it's hard to make a living as a writer, but I think it's hard to work at McDonald's too.... I think the commitment is to get up everyday and say, "I'm a writer, therefore what I'm supposed to do today is write." And to do that, and to do that and to do that.
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I am not an autobiographical writer.
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It didn't help my career to be living in Appalachia.
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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
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I don't want to be a grown-up anymore; it's hard!
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I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.
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Bruce always had to tell a lie. He was always living that lie. Caitlyn doesn't have any secrets.
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Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.
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A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
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Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
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I couldn't be a royal. It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.
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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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I like to come into my workspace and feel it's a living environment and not frozen, which is why I often change or add to the pictures on the wall.
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Screaming is hard after a while.
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Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard.
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I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
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I've never experienced writer's block. When it's going really well, my body temperature goes up, and I'm flushed. I get quite delirious.
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It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.
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Mine is not a religion of the prison-house. It has room for the least among God's creation.
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I believe that it is made out of the same cloth of mind, but it is an add-on, it was something that was specialized to create what we call the self. And it exists for very special purposes and it has very special, and I think by and large good consequences, although not only good consequences.
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The world of classical music is so fascinating. It's a world that encompasses people from everywhere and erases the basic restraints of nationality; everyone is united by this common language of music.
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I really enjoy making dinner for my kids and my husband - chopping ginger and marinating the tofu.
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I think it's hard to make a living as a writer, but I think it's hard to work at McDonald's too.... I think the commitment is to get up everyday and say, "I'm a writer, therefore what I'm supposed to do today is write." And to do that, and to do that and to do that.
