Irwin Shaw Quotes
Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
Irwin Shaw
Quotes to Explore
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Personal records are not what football is all about, but as goalscorers, we live and die by figures and numbers because, ultimately, that's how people will judge you.
Gary Lineker
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'Float On' was a fine song, but I was still writing the lyrics on the last day we were working on it and deciding if it was something we wanted to put on the record.
Sir Isaac Brock KB
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I love writing two narratives! I think concurrent storylines are my favorite way to write a book.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
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I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.
Verite
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Book sales and teens reading is always a fantastic thing, but we should also be celebrating and consuming the huge wealth of U.K. and U.K.-based writing and illustrating talent. Authors such as Charlie Higson, Darren Shan, Holly Smale, Tanya Byrne, Catherine Johnson, Sophie Mckenzie, to name but a few.
Malorie Blackman
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I'm a pretty easygoing person, and it bleeds into the music. Even if I'm writing the most personal song, it's not going to come out totally serious; there's always a little tongue in the cheek.
Mac DeMarco
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To have the kind of success I have had is really amazing, and I am incredibly grateful.
Naomie Harris
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It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one.
Jerzy Kosinski
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By the second half of the second century, apologies had become a popular form of Christian writing.
Bart Ehrman
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There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured.
Brian May
Queen
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You can not bring back the past. But you certainly can not repeat it. Life is short, even if live to ninety. Live to the fullest - that's how I feel. Appreciate every moment, every hour, every day, because they do not blink of an eye, all over. I am absolutely sure that for most people their death comes as a surprise.
Bruce Willis
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Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
Irwin Shaw