Will C. Barnes Quotes
Every author believes that the book which he is placing before the public will 'fill a long-felt want,' and success or failure depends very much on how closely he has been able to gauge the nature of the 'long-felt want.'
Will C. Barnes
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
Oliver Goldsmith
Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.
Jackie Collins
I want to have fun. I'm not interested in being a serious actor, because I think it's boring, and I think we've got plenty of them.
Taron Egerton
When readers close the covers on 'Running the Rift,' I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.
Naomi Benaron
When you say 'control freak' and 'OCD' and 'organized,' that suggests someone who's cold in nature, and I'm just not. Like, I'm really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don't like to make big messes that would hurt people.
Taylor Swift
I want to go down in history.
Haile Gebrselassie
When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer.
Eddy Arnold
I want, through my roles, to express the parts in the hearts of Chinese women that they feel unable to let out.
Ziyi Zhang
You don't want to have to come into work on Monday already apologizing. I try to save my apologies for what I've done later in the week.
Ike Barinholtz
I wouldn't call Loopt a failure. It didn't turn out like I wanted, for sure, but it was fun, I learned a lot, and I made enough money to start investing, which led me to my current job. I don't regret it at all.
Sam Altman
If I'm creating a free-form piece of art, I can make it look like anything I want, and nobody will say it's wrong.
Nathan Sawaya
I was just, like, all I want to do is be really good at something. Really, really good at something, so people are vaguely impressed by me.
Victoria Pendleton
This world of ours is a new world, in which the unit of knowledge, the nature of human communities, the order of society, the order of ideas, the very notions of society and culture have changed, and will not return to what they have been in the past. What is new is new, not because it has never been there before, but because it has changed in quality.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.
Dogen
Often, you have to fail as a writer before you write that bestselling novel or ground-breaking memoir. If you're failing as a writer - which it definitely feels like when you're struggling to write regularly or can't seem to earn a living as a freelance writer - maybe you need to take a long-term perspective.
Joanne Rowling
We were intrigued by the fact that we had so much actual behavior among people on our dating site, OKCupid.
Sam Yagan
Every author believes that the book which he is placing before the public will 'fill a long-felt want,' and success or failure depends very much on how closely he has been able to gauge the nature of the 'long-felt want.'
Will C. Barnes
