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.
Quotes to Explore
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I've overcome physical and mental brutality - and fought back.
Tatum O'Neal
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I promise to do everything I can to earn back the trust of everyone I've disappointed.
Vance McAllister
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I really tend to write in retrospect.
Randy Houser
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When I write a movie, I write it for me.
Taylor Sheridan
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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.
Barbara Demick
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In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.
Patrick O'Brian
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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
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I write romance because I love to read romance.
Rachel Gibson
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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.
Babyface
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I just write mechanical things.
Barry Zito
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He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
Baltasar Gracian
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The right to marry is vital in society. It's a right that's older than the Bill of Rights because it goes back to the common law.
Ted Olson
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I'm Latin, for crying out loud - I can't hold anything back!
Odette Annable
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I don't write constantly; it's two serials and a novel a year.
Umera Ahmad
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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.
Hal Stratton
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I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.
Barbara Mertz
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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.
Fran Lebowitz
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The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
Maya Angelou
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It was the right situation. I felt like all they were missing was a back.
Edgerrin James
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We weren't dirt poor, but there was no spare money kicking around. While it was very much understood that the way to a better life was through education, books were a luxury we couldn't afford. But when I was six, we actually moved opposite the central library, and that became my home from home.
Val McDermid
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The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
Walt Whitman
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The Congressional Budget Office has been embarrassed repeatedly by making projections based on the assumption that tax revenues and tax rates move in the same direction.
Thomas Sowell
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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.
Adam Langer