Eugene H. Peterson Quotes
I didn't write because I had anything to say, but in order to find out what there was to say.Eugene H. Peterson
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I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
Zadie Smith -
I really tend to write in retrospect.
Randy Houser -
It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
Barbara Kingsolver -
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
Octavia E. Butler -
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
Edmund Burke -
I was always falling in love at a very young age - kindergarten is when I can remember. There was always a crush. And when I was in sixth grade, I started picking up guitar, so I started wanting to write about it and sing about it.
Babyface
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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 -
In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.
Abbas Kiarostami -
If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
Ted Rall -
If you can write it, I can be it.
Karen Black -
I don't order laws, I propose them.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa -
If I write something, and I'm going to put in all that love and energy, I want to direct it.
Lake Bell
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I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.
Barbara Mertz -
I don't write books inadvertently.
A. N. Wilson -
I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.
Padma Lakshmi -
You write about what you know.
Larry David -
Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It's only talking on paper... talking about the things that matter to us.
Patricia Reilly Giff -
In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.
J. M. Coetzee
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I should be a success and I'm not and other people- younger people- are. Younger people than me are on TV and getting their lives in order. I'm still a nobody. When am I going to not be a nobody?
Ned Vizzini -
The fact is that there is a serious problem of extremism with minority groups within Muslim communities.
Maajid Nawaz -
I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February.
Gary Cole -
I didn't write because I had anything to say, but in order to find out what there was to say.
Eugene H. Peterson