Sigrid Nunez Quotes
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In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.
Salman Rushdie -
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 -
I really tend to write in retrospect.
Randy Houser -
It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
Barbara Kingsolver -
I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.
Wayne Dyer -
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
Octavia E. Butler
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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.
Gabrielle Zevin -
I just write mechanical things.
Barry Zito -
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 -
If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
Ted Rall -
Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.
Ed Sheeran -
'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
L. E. Modesitt
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I don't write constantly; it's two serials and a novel a year.
Umera Ahmad -
Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.
Carl Clinton Van Doren -
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 -
I will always, forever, write songs, and wherever they're meant to be is where they'll be.
Bebe Rexha -
Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what is nurturing.
Patricia MacLachlan -
History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
Ferdinand Marcos
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It's hard for me to speak, whether in English or Afrikaans. The reason I write is because I cannot speak. I feel blunt.
Antjie Krog -
"Maybe that’s what I have been looking for. When storms and rockslides threaten, I am looking for someone who will hold on to me and not let go.” He was talking about friendship, but the way he looked at her… She would crackle like fire if he touched her.
Courtney Milan -
People do connect me with James Bond simply because I happen to like scrambled eggs and short-sleeved shirts and some of the things that James Bond does, but I certainly haven't got his guts nor his very lively appetites.
Ian Fleming -
You write a thing down because you're hoping to get a hold on it.
Sigrid Nunez