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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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When I was 14, I would sit up in my room and write till my eyes would bleed.
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Been writing and singing together since we were 15. Hard to put words to how special it is to have Ben on this song with me. And I can’t believe we finally get to share it with everyone!
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I have a hard time finding high boots that go up to your knee, because of the shape of my calves.
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Hate does not produce love, and by hate one cannot remake the world.
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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.
