Albert Camus Quotes
I sometimes need to write things which I cannot completely control but which therefore prove that what is in me is stronger than I am.
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Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.
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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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Censure is a limp noodle across the wrist of the president. I think the way we vote on the articles will express the way we feel stronger than any censure vote.
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I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
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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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Hope is one of those no-win-no-fee things, and although it needs some encouragement to survive, its existence doesn't necessarily prove anything.
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Establish with all of your powers a union with your fellows and brothers in religion that is stronger than the union of the worldly!
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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 think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.
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People often write after they finish their career, or they don't play anymore, or they are not anymore active. So I say, why do that? And let's do it differently.
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I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.
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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
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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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If you want to get an email to Robert Redford, you send it to his assistant, and she prints it out. And then he will write you a letter, which is incredibly rare and incredibly classy. Unfortunately, I can't be that removed from technology.
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I will always, forever, write songs, and wherever they're meant to be is where they'll be.
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In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.
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I don't write books inadvertently.
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When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day.
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Russians have a new freedom, but as long as they don't express that freedom on a public platform.
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I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name.
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When you wish for something over and over again and it doesn't come true, something else happens; not only do you give up, but you resent your wish and you resent wishing.
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I sometimes need to write things which I cannot completely control but which therefore prove that what is in me is stronger than I am.
