Yann Martel Quotes
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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 -
When I write a movie, I write it for me.
Taylor Sheridan -
I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
P. J. O'Rourke -
It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
Barbara Kingsolver -
I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
Patrick deWitt -
In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.
Patrick O'Brian
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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 -
I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.
Tavi Gevinson -
I was always falling in love at a very young age - kindergarten is when I can remember. There was always a crush. And when I was in sixth grade, I started picking up guitar, so I started wanting to write about it and sing about it.
Babyface -
I just write mechanical things.
Barry Zito -
I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.
Taylor Swift -
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 -
I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.
Kara Hayward -
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.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.
Ed Sheeran -
I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and then another layer, and the stuff that would come up underneath was so inspiring, it made me want to write about it.
Damien Rice -
I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.
Taylor Swift
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My method is, I just sit down and write a book.
Karen Robards -
Everywhere I go - from villages outside Kandy, Sri Lanka, to community centers in Amman, Jordan, to offices at the State Department in Washington, D.C. - I find people with a similar story. When thousands of people discover that their story is also someone else's story, they have the chance to write a new story together.
Eboo Patel -
Cleanliness is a good thing, which the society should embrace. But it has nothing to do with Modi, nor can he implement it.
Kapil Sibal -
It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.
Frances McDormand -
But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
Victor Hugo -
I write slowly.
Yann Martel