Zadie Smith Quotes
Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.Zadie Smith
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The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway.
Jack Vance -
I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
Ed Westwick -
I read my books to writing workshops and friends, and I'm often focussed just on keeping them entertained. I never think about marketing at all.
Karen Joy Fowler -
You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking.
Wayne Kramer -
We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.
Adam D'Angelo -
Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very highly about my work and singing and my writing.
Jackie DeShannon
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Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.
LaToya Jackson -
Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
D. B. Weiss -
I'm a huge hip hop fan going way back, like, back to '83. I had my Gemini mixer listening to Run-DMC and Kurtis Blow.
Adam McKay -
Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.
Dan Brown -
I'm over the hill, maybe even the whole mountain range, but I don't see it that way even one little bit.
Victoria Moran -
I'm quite adept at writing two or sometimes even three stories at once. So if I get stuck on one story, I switch the next and let my subconscious work on unraveling any plot problems from another story.
Zara Cox
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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
Rabih Alameddine -
Writing is agony. I hate it.
P. J. O'Rourke -
From 1999 on - until 2003 - I covered publishing in a weekly column for Wired.com and wrote for several other publications - altogether writing over 150 articles.
M. J. Rose -
I love writing two narratives! I think concurrent storylines are my favorite way to write a book.
Taylor Jenkins Reid -
I sort of approach wrestling the way Johnny Depp approaches movies. I don't really care necessarily what I'm portraying.
T. J. Perkins -
Whatever's going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn't happen, then what the hell am I doing? So if I'm writing 'Inglourious Basterds,' and I'm in love with a girl and we break up, that's going to find its way into the piece.
Quentin Tarantino
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The Qur'an is God's property, not mine.
G. Willow Wilson -
The modern airplane creates a new geographic dimension ... the world is small, the world is one.
Wendell Willkie -
Don't do anything to try to fit in.
Mikey Way My Chemical Romance -
Love is beauty and beauty is truth, and that is why in the beauty of a flower we can see the truth of the universe.
Gautama Buddha -
Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.
Zadie Smith