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.

George W Truett

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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.

  

  Zadie Smith
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  • Luxury

• I really tend to write in retrospect.

  

  Randy Houser
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  • Tend
  • Retrospect

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

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Story

• In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Read
  • Fact
  • Longer

• 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 never read about photography.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Never
  • Photography
  • Read

• I write romance because I love to read romance.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Love
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• My mother taught me to read.

  

  Fiona Shaw
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  • Read

• My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.

  

  Wendi Deng Murdoch
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  • Grandmother

• If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.

  

  Ted Rall
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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.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Me
  • Like
  • Sound

• I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Like
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  • Diary

• I am always surprised people are surprised that people haven't read things.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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• 'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
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  • Never
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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.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Love
  • Energy
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• I don't write constantly; it's two serials and a novel a year.

  

  Umera Ahmad
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  • Two

• Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
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• History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
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• When I was 14, I would sit up in my room and write till my eyes would bleed.

  

  Quincy Jones
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  • Eyes
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• I write by myself initially. That's the way I've always written, just working on pure thought by myself. Then I bring it to the table with whoever I'm collaborating with.

  

  Amy Lee Evanescence
  • Thought
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  • Collaborating

• We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Science
  • Wine
  • Season

• Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• It was very difficult in the beginning, when everybody was talking about it. My mother just couldn't take it. It hurt her terribly. She used to worry all the time, go in to depression frequently. When she cried, we children used to cry with her

  

  Salman Khan
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  • Children
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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.

  

  George W Truett
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