Larry Gelbart Quotes
I write what I write and I honestly don't care if it gets on or not. I'm writing to see if I can find out some of what I think about any number of situations. I work it out in the writing.
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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 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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When I write a movie, I write it for me.
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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 don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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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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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 want to be the number one songwriter-producer guy of all time.
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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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My method is, I just sit down and write a book.
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I was a hired drummer for 3 Doors; there wasn't an opportunity for me to write.
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I write to escape; to escape poverty.
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I never write my stories as a wake-up call as such. I simply explore the kinds of situations that I find personally challenging by placing characters into situations that challenge them in similar ways.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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I think that there will always be artists out there who think they need to sign a major label deal in order to be successful. And that machine is what is going to work for them - there's tons of examples of pop stars who need that machine.
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Selling a film option and getting a studio on board can be a slow process, and until things are official, you never want to spill the beans.
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I'm happy to have the opportunity to record the records I want to - I'm very aware that that's a privilege.
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In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
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Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
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I write what I write and I honestly don't care if it gets on or not. I'm writing to see if I can find out some of what I think about any number of situations. I work it out in the writing.
