Clive Cussler Quotes
Either you've got the bug, or you haven't. There are many things I'd rather be doing than writing a book.
Clive Cussler
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I'm a stand-up comic. I'm always doing dates; it's just that, if I'm working on a project or I'm busy, I can't get out on the road or book any shows. Since the beginning of my career, I'm usually out for at least 10-15 dates throughout the year. If I have time, then I try to get at least 30-40 dates.
Wanda Sykes
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Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
Irwin Shaw
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I'm a professional songwriter - personal attitudes have nothing to do with writing a song.
Sammy Cahn
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When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
Calvin Trillin
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
Malala Yousafzai
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If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.
J. M. Coetzee
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Any character that can't be kept straight, to me, isn't a character who should be in the book – you know, anyone not vivid enough to have a claim on my attention.
Garth Risk Hallberg
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The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
A. B. Yehoshua
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Butler's novel 'Kindred' may be the book most widely read by readers outside science fiction; it has been assigned as a text in classrooms and has sold steadily since its publication in 1979.
Karen Joy Fowler
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A novelist's lack of awareness of and critical distance to his own body of work is due to a phenomenon that I have noticed in myself and many others: as soon as it is written, every new book erases the last one, leaving me with the impression that I have forgotten it.
Patrick Modiano
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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
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As far as advice, that will be in my next book, my next collection. I certainly never like to instruct anyone, but just say as I feel. That's the same as advice, isn't it?
Fay Wray
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I suppose that being moved to write a song is more applicable to me, I have to be moved, I have to have a reason to write a particular song.
Neil Diamond
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Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing.
Louise Mensch
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The person who is bent on killing you will follow you wherever you are.
Ed Koch
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Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person, whom you think the most agreeable in the world, the person who interests you at this present time, more than all the rest of the world put together.
Jane Austen
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Like, they know that I have a habit of rubbing my earlobes, I've been doing it since I was two.
Balthazar Getty
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Either you've got the bug, or you haven't. There are many things I'd rather be doing than writing a book.
Clive Cussler
