Jane Austen Quotes
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In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.
Salman Rushdie
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I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
Harlan Coben
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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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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
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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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I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.
Wayne Dyer
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
Octavia E. Butler
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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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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
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I write romance because I love to read romance.
Rachel Gibson
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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
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I just write mechanical things.
Barry Zito
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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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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
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Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.
Ed Sheeran
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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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My method is, I just sit down and write a book.
Karen Robards
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If you can write it, I can be it.
Karen Black
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In our whole life melody the music is broken off here and there by rests, and we foolishly think we have come to the end of time. God sends a time of forced leisure, a time of sickness and disappointed plans, and makes a sudden pause in the hymns of our lives, and we lament that our voice must be silent and our part missing in the music which ever goes up to the ear of our Creator. Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time and not be dismayed at the rests. If we look up, God will beat the time for us.
John Ruskin
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Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.
Roy Blount, Jr.
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Money will make you more of what you already are. If you're not a nice person, money's going to make you a despicable individual. If you're a good person, money's going to make you a better person.
Bob Proctor
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How can you contrive to write so even?
Jane Austen