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.
C. S. Lewis
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If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.
Yogi Berra
You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.
Felix Dennis
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!
Abraham Polonsky
When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that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.
Paolo Bacigalupi
As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger.
Zach Galifianakis
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.
Nadia Ali
I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.
Dana Spiotta
Politics is the one field you don't age out of.
P. J. O'Rourke
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.
Rachel Kushner
It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
It's important in a relationship to have moments when you do your own thing.
Kaley Cuoco
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.
P. J. O'Rourke
My will, my faith and my body have been challenged, but make no mistake, my heart is strong and my resolve to fight will never be broken.
Anastacia
I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom.
Anne McCaffrey
I dreamt of being an actor ever since I was young.
Douglas Booth
I've made a kind of pact with myself where I said, It doesn't matter what it is as long as I'm acting.
Dan Castellaneta
Once in a while, I write in Malay and work on something fun that's more for the local Malaysian market, and when that happens, it's always something really special; it speaks volumes that I'm doing it for my fans who have been there for me since day one.
Yuna
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.
C. S. Lewis
