Shiloh Fernandez Quotes

I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better I would love to be a writer.

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• It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.

  

  Hank Ketcham
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Business

• Whatever's going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn't happen, then what the hell am I doing? So if I'm writing 'Inglourious Basterds,' and I'm in love with a girl and we break up, that's going to find its way into the piece.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Hell

• I was writing at a really young age, but it took me a long time to be brave enough to become a published writer, or to try to become a published writer. It's a very public way to fail. And I was kind of scared, so I started out as a ghost writer, and I wrote for other series, like Disney 'Aladdin' and 'Sweet Valley' and books like that.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing.

  

  Adam Clymer
  • Writing
  • Thought
  • Doing

• Comics is still my first love. But I always did other kinds of writing, too, so I think of myself as a writer first.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Myself

• You can never have enough talent.

  

  Pat Riley
  • You
  • Enough
  • Talent

• Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
  • Thinking
  • Change
  • Ideas

• I can't be impatient. It would show on the floor, and I won't compete if I'm thinking about getting the ball.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Thinking

• When it comes to writing musicals, you write the best piece you can. Then, its destiny is in the hands of the actors and the director.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • Writing
  • Destiny

• I grew up in a family where many of our close friends were gay couples. As well as that, every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy.

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Family

• Writing's all I know. Frankly, I've never been able to do anything else.

  

  Christopher Buckley
  • Writing

• Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

  

  James Joyce
  • Writing
  • Why
  • Reading

• Over the summer I thought that I would seek out non-Americans as friends, just for diversity's sake. Now I find that I want to be around Americans - people who I know are thinking about our country as much as I am.

  

  Chelsea Clinton
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Country

• I grew up in a household that revered building businesses. It wasn't thinking about leadership; it was more about building something. To build something, you ultimately have to lead.

  

  Penny Pritzker
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Leadership

• I never feel more myself than when I'm writing; I never enjoy any day more than a good writing day.

  

  Anthony Minghella
  • Good
  • Writing

• To become mindfully aware of our surroundings is to bring our thinking back to our present moment reality and to the possibility of some semblance of serenity in the face of circumstances outside our ability to control.

  

  Jeff Kober
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Control

• Writing careers are short. For every 100 writers, 99 never get published. Of those who do, only one in every hundred gets a career out of it, so I count myself as immensely privileged.

  

  Jim Crace
  • Writing
  • Career

• All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Beautiful

• We are meaning-making creatures who read other people’s subtle clues just as they read ours.

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • Read
  • Meaning
  • Creatures

• The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Life
  • Best
  • Expectation

• Boys, they can't take my refrigerator now. They'll never get my car now. I paid cash for 'em and they're mine, and I'm keepin' 'em!

  

  Patsy Cline
  • Car
  • Boys
  • Refrigerator

• One on God's side is a majority.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • God
  • Side
  • Majority

• I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better I would love to be a writer.

  

  Shiloh Fernandez
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Talent