Bill Stout Quotes

Whether or not you write well, write bravely.

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• In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Think
  • Write
  • I Can

• I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Never
  • Write
  • Boring

• 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
  • Think
  • Write
  • Luxury

• I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • God
  • Write
  • Speeches

• Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Story

• I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Movie
  • Crazy
  • Like

• I just write mechanical things.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Things
  • Write
  • Just

• I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Like
  • Write
  • Diary

• I was a hired drummer for 3 Doors; there wasn't an opportunity for me to write.

  

  Daniel Adair 3 Doors Down
  • Opportunity
  • Me
  • Write

• I don't think of myself as Scottish or lesbian when I sit down and write. I am glad I have broken out of that limited audience.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Audience
  • Broken
  • Write

• 'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
  • Man
  • Never
  • Write

• If I write something, and I'm going to put in all that love and energy, I want to direct it.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Love
  • Energy
  • Write

• I don't write constantly; it's two serials and a novel a year.

  

  Umera Ahmad
  • Write
  • Year
  • Two

• I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.

  

  Barbara Mertz
  • Think
  • Write
  • Difficult

• 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
  • She
  • Want
  • Technology

• To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • People
  • Song
  • Write

• I don't write books inadvertently.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Write
  • Books
  • Inadvertently

• History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • History
  • Like
  • Write

• I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life. She's like, 'I can't read, I can't write; I can tell you who I was working for, and I can tell you the year, but who was president?'

  

  Tate Taylor
  • Life
  • Woman
  • Write

• We should be moving toward local currencies not global or European currencies.

  

  David Korten
  • Moving

• I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.'

  

  Edie Falco
  • Great
  • Love
  • Reading

• Whether or not you write well, write bravely.

  

  Bill Stout
  • Write
  • Bravely