Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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My style is very inspired by both my parents, so we all have the same taste.
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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.
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When I write a movie, I write it for me.
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It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
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If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
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I write romance because I love to read romance.
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I was always falling in love at a very young age - kindergarten is when I can remember. There was always a crush. And when I was in sixth grade, I started picking up guitar, so I started wanting to write about it and sing about it.
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If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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If I write something, and I'm going to put in all that love and energy, I want to direct it.
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If you want to get an email to Robert Redford, you send it to his assistant, and she prints it out. And then he will write you a letter, which is incredibly rare and incredibly classy. Unfortunately, I can't be that removed from technology.
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I will always, forever, write songs, and wherever they're meant to be is where they'll be.
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I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.
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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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And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
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I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.
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In the depths of the moor, the peat may be seen riven like floes of ice, and the rifts are sometimes twelve to fourteen feet deep, cut through black vegetable matter, the product of decay of plants through countless generations.
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I love peace and quiet, I hate politics and turmoil. We women are not made for governing, and if we are good women, we must dislike these masculine occupations.
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I therefore concluded, and decided unhesitatingly, that there are three stars in the heavens moving about Jupiter, as Venus and Mercury about the Sun; which at length was established as clear as daylight by numerous other observations.
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In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
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Humour allows people to exhale a little.
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A day in which I don't write leaves a taste of ashes.
