Sarah Rees Brennan Quotes

Think of a book special to you, and how much bleaker and poorer your life would be if that one writer had not existed - if that one writer had not, a hundred times or a thousand, made the choice to write. You're going to be that one writer one day for somebody you may never meet. Nobody can write that book you're going to write - that book that will light up and change up a life - but you.

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• We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Writing
  • You
  • Now

• I like writing about biology, not doing it.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Writing
  • Doing
  • Biology

• Writing an essay is like a school assignment: I have my topic, I organize my thoughts, and I write it. I have complete control over what I'm doing. Writing a novel is like setting out on a journey without knowing who or what I'll encounter, how long it's going to take, or where I'm going to end up.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Up
  • Long
  • Writing

• I bought the rights to this book, 'The Ploughmen,' by a Montana writer named Kim Zupan, and I've written the screenplay, and I really feel pretty strong about it. It's really hauntingly beautiful. It's got some suspense and great drama, but it's a real character thing.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Great
  • Real
  • Character

• We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Thinking
  • American
  • Paradise

• Housekeeping is incredibly difficult with three kids. I'm trying to be more relaxed. You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Trying
  • Book
  • Kids

• The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Writing
  • Business
  • Beginning

• The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • God
  • Long
  • Experience

• Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays.

  

  Patrick White
  • Writing
  • Age
  • Running

• Most of the time I'm thinking, I'm glad that scene was improvised.

  

  Larry David
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Scene

• I can't imagine what it would be like to write in a relaxed state. I'm going to be writing some stories for my own interest. I want to experiment with different things and see if I can approach writing with much less control and in a better psychological state. It will be like breaking out of a straitjacket.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Control

• Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over world-building.

  

  M. John Harrison
  • World
  • Writing
  • Science

• You don't stop thinking about women just because your wife dies. It's terrible, but you know. I just want the hugs, the kisses. A kiss!

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Stop

• Clear in thinking, and clear in feeling, and clear in wanting

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Thinking
  • Feeling

• Just because you are lucky does not mean you make good choices.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Good
  • Choices

• It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...

  

  Larry Wall
  • Book

• I still maintain several different outlets of artistry, like my music, photography, writing and all those things. I don't pigeonhole myself into one thing. I do all sorts of things, and that's so important to me.

  

  Jesse Johnson
  • Music
  • Different
  • Important

• She described herself as happy. This diagnosis did not come from any welling up of joy inside herself. It came from the observed fact, looking at herself objectively, that whenever she decided she wanted something she always got it, and what other definition of happiness could there be?

  

  Frederik Pohl
  • Up
  • She
  • Happy

• I dislike people who get out of things unscraped. No scars, no scratches. Agnosceo veteris vestigia flamme. Refined through a scar.

  

  Danilo Kis
  • People
  • Dislike
  • Scar

• A ring means a commitment. But more than that, it means that you've talked about your shared future and have decided together on a shared vision of it.

  

  Patti Stanger
  • Together
  • Future
  • Vision

• I want to go to Nashville and get cracking on this album.

  

  Scotty McCreery

• I love Vince McMahon. He came up with the Kurt Angle character. He ran with it, and then I was able to run with it. I thank him for the opportunity he gave me. Vince McMahon was one of my best friends, period.

  

  Kurt Angle
  • Up
  • Character
  • Friends

• Think of a book special to you, and how much bleaker and poorer your life would be if that one writer had not existed - if that one writer had not, a hundred times or a thousand, made the choice to write. You're going to be that one writer one day for somebody you may never meet. Nobody can write that book you're going to write - that book that will light up and change up a life - but you.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Book