Edmund White Quotes
I hate writing. I almost never write. I write against deadlines. And when I'm teaching, I'm focused on that.
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I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.
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Yeah I'm still writing. I've got about 14 tracks now. But we've been on tour so we haven't had time to get back to a rehearsal place.
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I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.
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I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.
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As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
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I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.
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Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I'd be the chief minister.
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I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.
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I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.
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I hear a lot of 'Top Model' girls say they are dismissed by clients because they recognize them, but it never happened to me.
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I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them - because I can't understand how you can explain a process that I find so baffling.
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I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never thought of it as a career. Music was always a really passionate hobby - it was like collecting DVDs or stamps.
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At times, our circumstances call for us to make critical choices to keep our covenants or to compromise them. Covenants should never be compromised, even when at the moment some circumstances might seem to justify it.
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Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.
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Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
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I was so worried when I left 'GH:' so scared I'd never work again.
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I have never broken a contract in my career.
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Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.
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I've never done a box set, and Eddie's full of it if he says otherwise.
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It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward.
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My husband may have his faults, but he has never lied to me.
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Love-buds, put before you and within you, whoever you are, Buds to be unfolded on the old terms; If you bring the warmth of the sun to them, they will open, and bring form, color, perfume, to you; If you become the aliment and the wet, they will become flowers, fruits, tall blanches and trees.
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I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six issues. And the success of the book, I think, speaks well to that decision.
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I hate writing. I almost never write. I write against deadlines. And when I'm teaching, I'm focused on that.
