C. S. Lewis Quotes
Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.
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Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.
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I don't have any office; I can write everywhere. So, I put a piece of paper on the table, and then I travel. Literally, writing for me is like travelling. It's getting out of myself and living another life - maybe a better life.
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Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
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One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.
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I don't like things like little sandals that look fragile. I like to look strong and commanding.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.
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You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.
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I'll give you my answer calmly and sensibly, my final answer. My final answer is finally no. The answer is no! Absolutely and finally no! Finally and positively no! No! No! No! N - O!
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When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that there would be fans of those stories.
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As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger.
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Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me to write a song is to visualise the story in my head, and I start humming a melody, and before you know it, a song is born.
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I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.
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Politics is the one field you don't age out of.
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Writing does produce a very unique satisfaction. There are times when I'm writing that it's frustrating or appalling or difficult, but when it goes well, it goes really well, and there is a feeling of rightness, like I'm doing the thing I was meant to do, almost in a mystical way, like I'm at an appropriate angle to the world.
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It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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It's important in a relationship to have moments when you do your own thing.
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Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I've been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers.
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You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.
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I would write down the lyrics to 'C.R.E.A.M.' in Korean - not translating it, but phonetically writing out each word. I didn't know what they were saying, so I would just write everything down as I heard it. I would recite it and imitate it like that. That's how I started to write my own raps.
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My mother is always the most vulnerable person in any room, and so I definitely have that part of her inside me.
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Most importantly, you have to stay true to yourself as well as those fans who made you who you are as an athlete.
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I do believe that supporting our First Amendment rights and supporting local law enforcement are not mutually exclusive.
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Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.
