Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (Colette) Quotes
To write is to pour one’s innermost self passionately upon the tempting paper, at such frantic speed that sometimes one’s hand struggles and rebels, overdriven by the impatient god which guides it - and to find, next day, in place of the golden bough that bloomed miraculously in that dazzling hour, a withered bramble and a stunted flower.
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In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.
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I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
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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.'
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I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.
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I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice.
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I write romance because I love to read romance.
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I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.
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I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.
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I was a hired drummer for 3 Doors; there wasn't an opportunity for me to write.
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I went to a Canadian college for performing arts and then I auditioned for Canadian Idol. That honestly was my golden ticket.
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I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.
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I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.
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I write in the studio.
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Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.
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Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what is nurturing.
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History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
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I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life. She's like, 'I can't read, I can't write; I can tell you who I was working for, and I can tell you the year, but who was president?'
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I write for young girls of color, for girls who don’t even exist yet, so that there is something there for them when they arrive. I can only change how they live, not how they think.
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The fact is that there is a serious problem of extremism with minority groups within Muslim communities.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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Whoever embarks with women embarks with a storm; but they are themselves the safety boats.
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To write is to pour one’s innermost self passionately upon the tempting paper, at such frantic speed that sometimes one’s hand struggles and rebels, overdriven by the impatient god which guides it - and to find, next day, in place of the golden bough that bloomed miraculously in that dazzling hour, a withered bramble and a stunted flower.
