Gerald Brenan Quotes
It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.
Quotes to Explore
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In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.
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I really tend to write in retrospect.
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I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
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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.
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I just write mechanical things.
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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
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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.
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I write to escape; to escape poverty.
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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.
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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've never experienced writer's block. When it's going really well, my body temperature goes up, and I'm flushed. I get quite delirious.
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There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
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If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.
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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.
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Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.
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I didn't know how to be a writer. But I thought, 'I can do this.'
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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We Germans should know that we're good at constructing cars, and we have a lot of good qualities. But we're not the funniest.
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Prosecutors say my father was the biggest crime boss in the nation... If you really want to know what John Gotti was like, you need to talk to my family. We lived this life.
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I became unsure about the future, in terms of my career. I was living in a remote location contemplating other kinds of work, not only in music.
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I do not think of type as something that should be readable. It should be beautiful.
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It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.
