Brian Koppelman Quotes

'Write what you know' works, but it's limiting. Write what fascinates you. Write what you can't stop thinking about.

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• In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Past
  • Present
  • Write

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

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Story

• Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Remember
  • Write
  • Type

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

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Movie
  • Crazy
  • Like

• I was always falling in love at a very young age - kindergarten is when I can remember. There was always a crush. And when I was in sixth grade, I started picking up guitar, so I started wanting to write about it and sing about it.

  

  Babyface
  • Write
  • Young
  • Falling

• I just write mechanical things.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Things
  • Write
  • Just

• I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Like
  • Road
  • Write

• I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Think
  • Like
  • Write

• Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Writing
  • Weird
  • Write

• 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
  • Want
  • Write
  • Place

• 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

• If you can write it, I can be it.

  

  Karen Black
  • You
  • Write
  • I Can

• 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

• I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Writing
  • Real

• 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

• 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

• Only write from your own passion, your own truth. That's the only thing you really know about, and anything else leads you away from the pulse.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Truth
  • Passion
  • Write

• You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.

  

  Adam Duritz Matt Malley
  • World
  • Way
  • Write

• We just try to write about things that are close to our hearts. We don't sit around trying to write another 'Free Bird' or 'Sweet Home Alabama.'

  

  Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Write
  • Hearts
  • Close

• Turkeys are intelligent, social, curious, and sometimes even funny. I wish people were more like turkeys sometimes. … We're going to have a special celebration for turkeys this November, where we're going to hang out with turkeys, we're not going to eat them, we're just going to kind of chill, hang out, talk with the turkeys, eat a little veggies.

  Biz Stone
  • People
  • Funny
  • Wish

• Among my books, the ones that sell best are for readers between the ages of 8 and 12. According to a study by the Association of American Publishers, the largest area of industry growth in 2014 was in the children and young adult category.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Children
  • American
  • Best

• 'Write what you know' works, but it's limiting. Write what fascinates you. Write what you can't stop thinking about.

  

  Brian Koppelman
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  • Works