George W Truett Quotes
And not only did this great consolidated ecclesiasticism assume to lord it over men's earthly treasures, but they lorded it over men's minds, prescribing what men should think and read and write.
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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.
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I really tend to write in retrospect.
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In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.
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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.
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I never read about photography.
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I write romance because I love to read romance.
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My mother taught me to read.
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My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
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If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
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I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.
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I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.
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I am always surprised people are surprised that people haven't read things.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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If I write something, and I'm going to put in all that love and energy, I want to direct it.
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I don't write constantly; it's two serials and a novel a year.
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Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.
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History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
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When I was 14, I would sit up in my room and write till my eyes would bleed.
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I have a nice little movie career, and I write plays and do my act.
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I tend not to look back. It's confusing.
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I did theater as a kid, more of an after-school program. But every night I would put on a movie and fall asleep to it.
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The money footballers earn today is incredulous.
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And not only did this great consolidated ecclesiasticism assume to lord it over men's earthly treasures, but they lorded it over men's minds, prescribing what men should think and read and write.
