Sigrid Nunez Quotes

You write a thing down because you're hoping to get a hold on it.

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• In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Think
  • Write
  • I Can

• 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
  • Think
  • Write
  • Luxury

• I really tend to write in retrospect.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Write
  • Tend
  • Retrospect

• It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Political
  • Courage
  • Write

• I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • God
  • Write
  • Speeches

• Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Story

• 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.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Remember
  • Write
  • Type

• 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
  • Me
  • Care
  • Write

• I just write mechanical things.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Things
  • Write
  • Just

• 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
  • Great
  • Write
  • Grandmother

• If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Good
  • Long
  • Write

• Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Writing
  • Weird
  • Write

• My method is, I just sit down and write a book.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Book
  • Write
  • Down

• 'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
  • Man
  • Never
  • Write

• I don't write constantly; it's two serials and a novel a year.

  

  Umera Ahmad
  • Write
  • Year
  • Two

• Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
  • Write
  • Hard
  • Yes

• To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • People
  • Song
  • Write

• I will always, forever, write songs, and wherever they're meant to be is where they'll be.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Forever
  • Write
  • Will

• It's hard to be in the limelight and write songs that cater to fans that have expectations of you. We just want to write songs that we love, but all the different people with different ideas coming in make it difficult. We have to ask ourselves if we're writing for the most important people: the fans.

  

  Josh Dun Twenty One Pilots
  • Write
  • Fans
  • Songs

• Russians have a new freedom, but as long as they don't express that freedom on a public platform.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Long
  • Freedom
  • Platform

• The manner in which life constructs itself must be dealing with some other principle which we've failed to identify.

  

  Simon Conway Morris
  • Life
  • Principle
  • Identify

• Being famous has changed a lot, because now there's so many outlets, between magazines, TV shows, and the Internet, for people to stalk and follow you. We created the monster.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Famous
  • Internet

• The village had a mill near it, situated on the little creek, which made very good flour. The population consisted of civilized Indians, but much mixed blood.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Good
  • Blood
  • Very

• You write a thing down because you're hoping to get a hold on it.

  

  Sigrid Nunez
  • Write
  • Hoping
  • Hold On