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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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 -
I didn't know how to be a writer. But I thought, 'I can do this.'
Karen Robards
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
V. S. Naipaul -
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 -
I always knew I wanted to be a writer.
Karen Kingsbury -
The waiters' eyes sparkled and their pencils flew as she proceeded to eviscerate my wallet – paté, Whitstable oysters, a sole, and a favorite salad of the Nizam of Hyderabad made of shredded five-pound notes.
S. J. Perelman -
The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild, or now I have two. And I think that possibly there's some tenderness that came out of just time and age and being a parent and grandparent.
C. K. Williams -
I play hard and aggressive. I don't lay out the huge body checks because it's not really the style I play. But I love to be around the net and love battling corners and trying to dish pucks out.
Eric Staal -
Democrats believe in reigniting the American dream by removing barriers to success and building ladders of opportunity for all, so everyone can succeed.
Nancy Pelosi -
I struggle to come up to people and say what I think.
Maisie Williams -
Part 2, Ch. 5
Lucy Maud Montgomery -
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