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.
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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
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I really tend to write in retrospect.
Randy Houser
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It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
Barbara Kingsolver
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I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
Patrick deWitt
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
Octavia E. Butler
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I really don't have anything urgent to say, and I think you shouldn't write unless you have something urgent to say. Sometimes that troubles me, and sometimes I don't really care.
Hanya Yanagihara
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
Edmund Burke
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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
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In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.
Abbas Kiarostami
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If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
Ted Rall
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If you can write it, I can be it.
Karen Black
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I don't order laws, I propose them.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
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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
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That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.
Karin Slaughter
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What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.
P. D. James
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I don't write books inadvertently.
A. N. Wilson
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He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.
Harold MacMillan
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Mother sighed with exasperation. "Look, there aren't any "people in charge of death". When you die you move to another part of London, that's all there is to it. Period.
Will Self
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If you're not going to wear a tiara when you win a Newbery Award, when are you going to wear one?
Laura Amy Schlitz
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Your life only gets better when you get better.
Brian Tracy
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I struggle sometimes superficially with my management or with my own career about how much time I spend traveling or giving myself away to promote my music or myself when I'd rather be gardening or surfing or being at home with my loved ones. And everyone struggles with that; everyone struggles with having to go to work. And I struggle with how humankind ended up this way.
Jason Mraz
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I didn't write because I had anything to say, but in order to find out what there was to say.
Eugene H. Peterson