Lord Byron Quotes
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain.
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Chess is mental torture.
Garry Kasparov -
Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.
Gary L. Francione
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I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.
Aaron Paul
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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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I really tend to write in retrospect.
Randy Houser
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It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
Octavia E. Butler
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
V. S. Naipaul
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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.
Gabrielle Zevin
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The kitchen is where we deal with the elements of the universe. It is where we come to understand our past and ourselves.
Laura Esquivel
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I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.
Tavi Gevinson
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It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.
Walter Cronkite
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Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.
Tamae Watanabe
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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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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 can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.
Ferdinand Marcos
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I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.
Taylor Swift
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I write to escape; to escape poverty.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
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I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.
Zach Braff
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I like to process things and I do like to write about what I’m feeling and when something really emotionally hits me, whether it’s joyful or traumatic, I know I need to write about it to get that experience out.
Noah Kahan
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As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.
Erma Bombeck
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I'm a songwriter first...In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious...Sensitive, humbug. Everybody thinks I'm sensitive...There is a downside to having one of the biggest-selling albums ever.
Carole King
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If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain.
Lord Byron