Ozzy Osbourne Quotes

I listen to some of the lyrics I used to write and I say, "Where was my head at when I wrote that?"

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• I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.

  

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• Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

  

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• I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.

  

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• I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.

  

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• 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.

  

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• Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.

  

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• I love writing two narratives! I think concurrent storylines are my favorite way to write a book.

  

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• Arendt did have a certain snobbishness, though in some of her writing she expressed more democratic attitudes.

  

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• After all these years of cooking and writing recipes, I am still amazed every time I notice how even the minutest of variation in technique can make a spectacular difference.

  

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• Local markets for literary fiction remain underdeveloped; the metropolis often holds out the only real possibility of a professional writing career.

  

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• The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.

  

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• By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.

  

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• Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.

  

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• Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.

  

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• Herbs deserve to be used much more liberally.

  

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• When I was younger, I avoided exercise or anything strenuous. I didn't even enjoy walking. As I got older, I spent so much time marking books or sitting at a desk writing that there was no room for exercise - not that I would have bothered anyway.

  

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• When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.

  

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• Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. But while I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I have to concentrate on writing for myself. I can't worry about genres or markets or what might be commercial or not. That never works.

  

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• I did not find that writing a diary with a lead male character differed in any essential way from writing one with a female character. They all had the same challenges in terms of attempting to establish an identity, coping with loneliness, friendships, relationships.

  

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• One hasn't become a writer until one has distilled writing into a habit, and that habit has been forced into an obsession. Writing has to be an obsession. It has to be something as organic, physiological and psychological as speaking or sleeping or eating.

  

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• The two of us could form a new kind of union; we could be free together.

  

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• You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

  

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• I listen to some of the lyrics I used to write and I say, "Where was my head at when I wrote that?"

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
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