William Lashner Quotes
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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.
Zadie Smith -
I really tend to write in retrospect.
Randy Houser -
When I write a movie, I write it for me.
Taylor Sheridan -
I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
P. J. O'Rourke -
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 -
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
Octavia E. Butler
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I draw a very clear distinction between populism and democracy.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
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.
Taylor Swift -
I write romance because I love to read romance.
Rachel Gibson -
I really don't have anything urgent to say, and I think you shouldn't write unless you have something urgent to say. Sometimes that troubles me, and sometimes I don't really care.
Hanya Yanagihara -
I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.
Taylor Swift -
My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
Wendi Deng Murdoch
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My method is, I just sit down and write a book.
Karen Robards -
I write to escape; to escape poverty.
Edgar Rice Burroughs -
Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.
Carl Clinton Van Doren -
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.
Taylor Sheridan -
I write in the studio.
Macy Gray -
Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.
Wally Amos
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History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
Ferdinand Marcos -
I write about things, recent experiences, people around me, some not so affectionately. I’d like to think I’m a little past writing about beer and chicks - unless it’s about my wife, who is a cool chick.
Jizzy Pearl -
The traditional practice is that the justices don't ask the attorney general any questions, so as not to embarrass him. But Bobby Kennedy had let them know that he didn't mind if they asked him questions and they did.
Harold H. Greene -
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Pablo Picasso -
When I write legally, I try to write very plain, very vanilla, very clear.
William Lashner