Jane Leavy Quotes
News writing and sports writing have become synonymous. And it started with, you know, free agency, and now it's in the concussion debate.Jane Leavy
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Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
Rabindranath Tagore -
I guess I went into journalism to save the world. I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.
Carl Honore -
I've got plenty of quirks. I go to an office early in the morning. Early in the morning is really good writing time. I take anywhere between six to eight showers a day. I'm not exaggerating. I'm not a germaphobe: it's all about a fresh start.
Aaron Sorkin -
I read my books to writing workshops and friends, and I'm often focussed just on keeping them entertained. I never think about marketing at all.
Karen Joy Fowler -
My own writing has perhaps more of an American flavor than a British one, but that's because the stories I've so far written have needed it. 'Empire State,' 'Seven Wonders' and 'The Age Atomic' are all very place-centric, where the setting itself is almost a character. But there is a universality to story that isn't just limited to science fiction.
Adam Christopher -
Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.
Carine Roitfeld
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Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.
Dak Prescott -
Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.
Aaron Sorkin -
I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey.
Vince Gill -
I don't talk about Amy Winehouse as a 'singer.' She's a pioneer. I listened to her endlessly when I started writing.
Laura Mvula -
You don't need money to be free. You can just say if you don't need stuff, you're always free.
Malik Bendjelloul -
Hard writing makes easy reading.
Wallace Stegner
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Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.
Zadie Smith -
I think bolstering free trade is a boon to the dollar.
Carly Fiorina -
Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.
Dan Brown -
You try not to become so emotionally attached to your character, but you do.
Nadia Bjorlin -
Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined 'free market' is the first step towards understanding capitalism.
Ha-Joon Chang -
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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We know all about actors and singers because they do interviews, but with the royals, everything's so tightly controlled. They live this strange reality behind closed doors.
Vanessa Kirby -
But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.
Joanne Rowling -
I don't have specific music for when I'm writing. I'm usually listening to the same playlist or 'artist' before I arrive at the computer as when I'm walking somewhere after leaving the computer.
Tao Lin -
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
Pablo Picasso -
I don't see why people are so snooty about Channel 5. It has some respectable documentaries about the Second World War. It also devotes considerable airtime to investigations into lap dancing, and other related and vital subjects.
Boris Johnson -
News writing and sports writing have become synonymous. And it started with, you know, free agency, and now it's in the concussion debate.
Jane Leavy