David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.

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• I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • People
  • Writing
  • Political

• I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white, and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time, but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent, and I'm not your mommy; I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Time
  • Writing

• When we saw our plane on TV as breaking news, it was the most surreal experience. A lot of the women were crying. There was a gentleman who was writing in his journal and crying. Seeing that isn't easy.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Experience

• Tell your idea to whomever will listen, and you'll get valuable market feedback before writing a single line of code.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Writing
  • Single
  • Feedback

• Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Art

• I know now that I began writing in a country where the word 'woman' and the word 'poet' were almost magnetically opposed. One word was used to invoke collective nurture, the other to sketch out self-reflective individualism. Both states were necessary - that much the culture conceded - but they were oil and water and could not be mixed.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Writing
  • Country
  • Culture

• Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and I am never sure they'll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • Risk

• To make a movie about someone who is thinking and writing is scary. There's no big love story, no action, no drama. It's not an easy task.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Movie

• If you like what you are writing, just write. Try to keep going before you stop to take a break. Keep going back before too much time has passed. And just stay with it.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Stop

• I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Writing
  • Art
  • True

• The biggest message I have for young women is, Don't start cutting off branches of your career tree unnecessarily early. Sometimes women say, I know I want to have a family or play in the local symphony, and they start pulling themselves out of their career path. You don't have to take yourself out of the running before you even start.

  

  Mary Barra
  • Women
  • Family
  • Career

• I can't help but laugh at all of you writing fake stories about me. I was not in any hit and runs. I don't drink so the DUI is false.

  

  Amanda Bynes
  • Writing
  • Help
  • Fake

• I speak Mandarin and can read and write a little. I took a few classes at Harvard to get better in my reading and writing skills.

  

  Jeremy Lin
  • Writing
  • Reading

• Cardio is boring for me, so running outside helps to keep me going.

  

  Diego Klattenhoff
  • Running

• You don't have to be wealthy to run for mayor. I'm a Green Party candidate running for mayor and I'm being taken seriously.

  

  Matt Gonzalez
  • Running
  • Party
  • Taken

• I will get a loan and pay the money the court asks for. But I will not lay down my writing and I still say this was an important book to write.

  

  Asne Seierstad
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Money

• To be an entrepreneur in Europe, there is a stigma attached to it. There's a reason why England is known as a nation of shopkeepers. Part of it is the idea that it's better to have a shop and keep it up and running than close the doors and try to do something much more significant.

  

  Danny Rimer
  • Up
  • Why
  • Running

• I think the close work I do as a translator pays off in my writing - I'm always searching for multiple ways to say things.

  

  Lydia Davis
  • Work
  • Writing

• I'm writing a film. With our access to these powerful media, we're going to take over, because it's really disgusting what is put out there now to be consumed.

  

  Lisa Bonet
  • Writing
  • Powerful

• God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out their quality. He knew it already. It was I who didn't. In this trial He makes us occupy the dock, the witness box, and the bench all at once. He always knew that my temple was a house of cards. His only way of making me realize the fact was to knock it down.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Trying
  • House

• If you find something to tell, tell it to your truest, though that make little to tell; the truer you speak, the more you will know to tell.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Know
  • Speak
  • Find

• Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever.

  

  George Berkeley
  • May

• Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.

  

  David Bowie
  • Writing
  • Running