Carl Hiaasen Quotes
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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
Rachel Cusk -
I am not an autobiographical writer.
Yann Martel -
I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
E. L. Doctorow -
I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
Laura Moser -
Only in your imagination can you revise.
Fay Wray -
I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
Damien Chazelle
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Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
Fran Drescher -
If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
V. S. Naipaul -
A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
Irwin Shaw -
Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.
Karl Jaspers -
I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
Iris Johansen -
Only votes talk, everything else walks.
Dan Rather
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Commercialism isn't challenging creatively; it's only challenging in a stamina way.
Feist -
A cat only has itself.
V. S. Naipaul -
One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.
Sam Mendes -
Anything that's done to address unemployment in terms of massive stimulus spending is going to exacerbate deficits. And anything that's done to address deficits in the short-term is going to exacerbate unemployment.
Indra Nooyi -
I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.
A. Scott Berg -
The only rule is there's only one rule: no rules.
Dana Snyder
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Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.
C. Wright Mills -
To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.
Albert Einstein -
The way you dress or the car you drive or what you spend is to impress other people with how, I guess, successful and rich you are. But you're not, and you shouldn't, and who gives a damn what other people think anyway. So, that mentality, I think, is very destructive.
Aaron Patzer -
Radium, discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898, was especially popular: the 'it' element of its day. Radium glows an eerie blue-green in the dark, giving off light for years without any apparent power source. People had never seen anything like it.
Sam Kean -
There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.
Carl Hiaasen