Blaine Pardoe Quotes
As a writer, I believe in going where the evidence takes me rather than coming in with a preconceived notion and forcing the evidence to fit that belief.Blaine Pardoe
Quotes to Explore
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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
Rachel Cusk -
In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
Salman Rushdie -
Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.
Lance Armstrong -
I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
Damien Chazelle -
Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
Fran Drescher -
I have no evidence of any relationship between IRS and NSA.
Barton Gellman
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A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
Irwin Shaw -
It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
Flannery O'Connor -
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 -
The same evidence that is convincing to one person may not convince another.
G. Edward Griffin -
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
V. S. Naipaul
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I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.
Vikas Swarup -
I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
P. J. Harvey -
My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.
Irving Stone -
In my first publishable research, I obtained evidence that the replication of polio viral RNA engendered a multi-stranded intermediate, although my description of that intermediate proved flawed in its details.
J. Michael Bishop -
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 -
The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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If a single writer in a country is in chains, then there are some links of that chain that binds us all.
Vaclav Havel -
What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
Alan Alda -
If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
If it gets laughs, it's funny.
Rachel Dratch -
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
Will Durant -
As a writer, I believe in going where the evidence takes me rather than coming in with a preconceived notion and forcing the evidence to fit that belief.
Blaine Pardoe