Katy Lederer Quotes
I'm more interested in the writing than in the content per se (good writing can be about wallpaper and I'll devour it).
Katy Lederer
Quotes to Explore
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All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.
J. M. Coetzee
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I've got plenty of quirks. I go to an office early in the morning. Early in the morning is really good writing time. I take anywhere between six to eight showers a day. I'm not exaggerating. I'm not a germaphobe: it's all about a fresh start.
Aaron Sorkin
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I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.
Zadie Smith
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A lazy man works twice as hard. My mother told that to me, and now I say it to my kids. If you're writing an essay, keep it in the lines and in the margins so you don't have to do it over.
Gary Oldman
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I don't believe in 'thinking' old. Although I've transitioned through many bodies - a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult - my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.
Wayne Dyer
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Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and I am never sure they'll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.
Vikram Seth
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Bad writing is like a bad relationship. Don't be addicted to it just because you are familiar with its ways. Let go.
Elif Safak
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My job, in general, is nonfiction, so writing fiction was liberating. If you can't find the answer to something, you just make it up!
Jake Tapper
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You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out.
Mary MacLane
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I went to Columbia film school; that's where I met Matthew Weisman. We then became writing partners, graduated, and moved out to Los Angeles. I didn't know a soul.
Jeph Loeb
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In writing, I apply my feminine side and respect the mystery involved in creation.
Paulo Coelho
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I've hung out in the writer's room a few times, but the fact is we've got such a good writing staff, I don't want to get my peanut butter fingerprints on anything.
Patton Oswalt
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No matter what people say to you,be strong!
Ben Mikaelsen
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'I smell fennel,' Launcelot said. 'That reminds me, I should tell you I have discovered a specific for maims. You take salt, good-quality river mud, and bee urine, and slather it on the maim and hold it there for two days. Works like a charm. Gathering the bee urine is a bit of a bore.'
Donald Barthelme
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I was born dirt-poor with barely a stitch on my back, and no name or prestige attached to me, and no real clout or connections.
Jeremy Scott
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I'm more interested in the writing than in the content per se (good writing can be about wallpaper and I'll devour it).
Katy Lederer
