Jane Austen Quotes

How can you contrive to write so even?

Jane Austen

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• In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Think
  • Write
  • I Can

• I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Never
  • Write
  • Boring

• 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
  • Think
  • Write
  • Luxury

• I really tend to write in retrospect.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Write
  • Tend
  • Retrospect

• 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
  • Bad
  • Interesting
  • Write

• 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
  • Past
  • Present
  • Write

• Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Story

• I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Movie
  • Crazy
  • Like

• My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Want
  • Audience

• I write romance because I love to read romance.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Love
  • Write
  • Read

• I really don't have anything urgent to say, and I think you shouldn't write unless you have something urgent to say. Sometimes that troubles me, and sometimes I don't really care.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Me
  • Care
  • Write

• I just write mechanical things.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Things
  • Write
  • Just

• If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Good
  • Long
  • Write

• 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
  • People
  • Why
  • Career

• Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Writing
  • Weird
  • Write

• I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Like
  • Write
  • Diary

• My method is, I just sit down and write a book.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Book
  • Write
  • Down

• If you can write it, I can be it.

  

  Karen Black
  • You
  • Write
  • I Can

• You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.

  

  Adam Duritz Matt Malley
  • World
  • Way
  • Write

• Certain teams are more careful in what they write. They generate less bugs. You can know that but it still doesn't mean there might be there might not be one bug that would be bad to ship the product with.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Write
  • Product
  • Teams

• The interesting thing is that, well, here's what I think about songwriters and songs. Sometimes people sit down and say, "I gotta write a song today, I have a title" and all of that, and sometimes inspiration just happens, almost like "Sugar, Sugar" and a couple of the other songs. But basically, I just started playing the piano, and I'm not a great piano player.

  

  Andy Kim
  • Song
  • Inspiration
  • Write

• When he wakes sometimes from dark dreams of broken cradles, and compasses without bearings, he pushes the unease down, lets the daylight contradict it. And isolation lulls him with the music of the lie.

  

  M. L. Stedman
  • Music
  • Dark
  • Broken

• In Tunisia the Americans had to pay a stiff price for their experience, but it brought rich dividends. Even at that time, the American generals showed themselves to be very advanced in the tactical handling of their forces, although we had to wait until the Patton Army in France to see the most astonishing achievements in mobile warfare.

  

  Erwin Rommel
  • Experience
  • Army
  • Price

• How can you contrive to write so even?

  

  Jane Austen
  • Write
  • Contrive