Barbara Holland Quotes
A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.Barbara Holland
Quotes to Explore
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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 always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
Hannah Kent -
Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right.
Lance Reddick -
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
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Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.
Ferguson Jenkins -
I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
Iris Johansen -
I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.
P. J. Harvey -
I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
Joanne Rowling -
I've never experienced writer's block. When it's going really well, my body temperature goes up, and I'm flushed. I get quite delirious.
M. J. Hyland -
There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
Harlan Coben
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I didn't know how to be a writer. But I thought, 'I can do this.'
Karen Robards -
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
V. S. Naipaul -
I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.
Vikas Swarup -
I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any artist, any musician, can write without regret, so I don't think perhaps it's even particularly Southern.
Barry Hannah -
There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.
Carl Hiaasen -
Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer.
Karen Kingsbury -
I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.' And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won't do that.
Maya Angelou -
There's a lot of great Olympians, but for me, I try to prove myself as one of the best - and that's the key thing.
Usain Bolt -
In terms of the principles of politics, I think I understand well. Thailand needs someone who has leadership, who has the management skills to help the country.
Yingluck Shinawatra -
A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.
Barbara Holland