Quotes 3601 till 3620 of 3761.
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Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.
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Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people.
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Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
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Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders.
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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.
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Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
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Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
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Writing a song to be a single is hard, and I don't like to focus on that because you can get caught up in making something just terrible, which is really easy to do if you're focused on making it a single. It's more fun when you focus on what excites you musically.
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Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.
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Writing about where I was from and the people I knew was not something that would have occurred to me early on, because like so many Southerners of that period - the Sixties - I rejected those things when I went north.
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Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
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Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.
A Plea for Eros (2007) 41 -
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
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Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.
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Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
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Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic.
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Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain.
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Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing.
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Yeah, I'm very impressed with Lifetime, this is the first time I've worked with them. I really like the kind of programming that they're into, so I'm hoping that I will.
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Yeah, well my name is Bai Ling. That means white spirit, and I really feel like sometimes I'm not existing.
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