Elena Ferrante Quotes
At most, I may write when I am disturbed by something. I have recently discovered the pleasure of finding written answers to written questions.Elena Ferrante
Quotes to Explore
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There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid -
I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose.
Abraham Clark -
My job is not to give you all the answers. My job is to ask the questions.
Taylor Sheridan -
Work is both my living and my pleasure.
Harlan Howard -
I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and then another layer, and the stuff that would come up underneath was so inspiring, it made me want to write about it.
Damien Rice -
I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.
Taylor Swift
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One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.
Orson Scott Card -
I write to escape; to escape poverty.
Edgar Rice Burroughs -
Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.
Carl Clinton Van Doren -
I will always, forever, write songs, and wherever they're meant to be is where they'll be.
Bebe Rexha -
Most directors that I've worked with - I've worked with before, especially in Holland - and they know that I'm somebody who talks and asks, and talks, and talks, and talks and questions and turns things around. I'm like a little cat, walking around my little nest until I find my place.
Carice van Houten -
If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery.
Kailash Satyarthi
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I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.
Taslima Nasrin -
If anything, if you can get somebody interested in something and get them excited, that's great. You should be praised for having opened the debate and having asked the right questions.
Oliver Stone -
In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.
E. O. Wilson -
When I was a kid, I figured I would be a physicist when I grew up, and then I would write science fiction on the side. The physicist thing didn't pan out, but writing science fiction on the side did.
Ted Chiang -
We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone - because we have the impulse to explain who we are.
Maya Angelou -
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
Maya Angelou
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There is nothing cooler than to have them singing your words back to you. The last show I did, I was kind of nervous about putting the mic out there, because you're not sure how it's going to go. But I did, and they sang the whole chorus. I thought, 'Holy crap! That is the coolest feeling.' It's the biggest rush ever.
RaeLynn -
Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue.
Marcel Proust -
Right before when the iMac came out is when most people associate Apple started. That's when people remember Apple - that first iMac or that first laptop that was a clam shell. To me everything before that was what was interesting.
Joshua Michael Stern -
At most, I may write when I am disturbed by something. I have recently discovered the pleasure of finding written answers to written questions.
Elena Ferrante