Adam Langer Quotes
... every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.
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I've overcome physical and mental brutality - and fought back.
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I promise to do everything I can to earn back the trust of everyone I've disappointed.
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I really tend to write in retrospect.
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For a North Korean watcher, seeing 'The Interview' is like seeing an earnest endeavor reflected back through a freak-show mirror.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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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.
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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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I just write mechanical things.
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He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
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I'm Latin, for crying out loud - I can't hold anything back!
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I don't write constantly; it's two serials and a novel a year.
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Back in the 1960s, the number of deaths each year from unintentional poisoning was 15 times greater than it is today.
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I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.
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To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.
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I write in the studio.
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7 Mile is like an Ave. Back in the days it was poppin' in the summer time.
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History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
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Some things You have to let be lost Some battles, some battles You have to leave unfought. Then the truth just wastes away In all we dare not say. And in all we can't explain But I faithfully remain.
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Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed.
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Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about what you've done in your life and write about that.
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I was never good at painting. The great turning point came when I had a block of wood and I carved a shape into the wood and put a small piece of timber into that space - like a negative - and so it made an endless column, only inward.
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But when you hear the complete album, it gets dark, really straight-up rock, with some really intimate moments with just me and the piano. It's not completely me because there are parts of me that aren't on that song, that are on the album.
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... every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.
