Haruki Murakami Quotes
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I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
P. J. O'Rourke -
In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.
Patrick O'Brian -
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
Octavia E. Butler -
We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star.
Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet -
I write romance because I love to read romance.
Rachel Gibson -
I just write mechanical things.
Barry Zito
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My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
Wendi Deng Murdoch -
People often write after they finish their career, or they don't play anymore, or they are not anymore active. So I say, why do that? And let's do it differently.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
I write to escape; to escape poverty.
Edgar Rice Burroughs -
'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
L. E. Modesitt -
To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.
Barry Manilow -
I write in the studio.
Macy Gray
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Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.
Wally Amos -
I have a nice little movie career, and I write plays and do my act.
Taylor Negron -
If you want a database, you don't go out and say you're going to write it. I see platforms as going in that direction.
Parker Harris -
I can write with absolutely perfect penmanship with my feet. If I broke both my arms, I could still write a girl a love letter using just my toes.
Ian Somerhalder -
I write my songs many times to chord progressions on a piano. Unfortunately, I can't keep playing the piano, so I just record it into the software.
Nadia Ali -
I'm a huge David Lindsay-Abaire fan. If I could write, I would want to write like him.
Tate Donovan
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I'd love to write for One Direction. I think they've done incredibly well.
Gabrielle Aplin -
When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day.
Alberto Moravia -
The art and science of memory is about developing the capacity to quickly create images that link disparate ideas. Creativity is the ability to form similar connections between disparate images and to create something new and hurl it into the future so it becomes a poem, or a building, or a dance, or a novel. Creativity is, in a sense, future memory.
Joshua Foer -
The Self is self-luminous without darkness and light, and is the reality which is self-manifest. Therefore, one should not think of it as this or as that. The very thought of thinking will end in bondage.
Ramana Maharshi -
I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel.
Haruki Murakami