Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Quotes to Explore
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I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
Harlan Coben -
I am not an autobiographical writer.
Yann Martel -
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 -
I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
P. J. O'Rourke -
I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.
Barbara Palvin -
It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
Barbara Kingsolver
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I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
Patrick deWitt -
I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
Laura Moser -
I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.
Wayne Dyer -
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
Octavia E. Butler -
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 -
I write romance because I love to read romance.
Rachel Gibson
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I just write mechanical things.
Barry Zito -
If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
V. S. Naipaul -
My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
Wendi Deng Murdoch -
I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
Iris Johansen -
Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
Rabih Alameddine -
I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.
Taylor Swift
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As a journalist, or an anthropologist, the convention is that people are there for you to study, and they are your objects.
Annia Ciezadlo -
I finished 'America America,' and I knew I had to write another book, not just for personal reasons but because I had a contract.
Ethan Canin -
Most people live dejectedly in worldly joys or sorrows. They sit on the sidelines and do not join the dance.
Soren Kierkegaard -
But, after all, the sciences have made progress, because philosophers have applied themselves with more attention to observe, and have communicated to their language that precision and accuracy which they have employed in their observations: In correcting their language they reason better.
Etienne Bonnot de Condillac -
As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez