Quotes 181 till 200 of 542.
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I love being a writer, what I can't stand is the paperwork.
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I love my profession. I would never stop. Relax? I relax when I work. It's my life.
Source: Nina J. Easton, Los Angeles Times (January 4, 1989) Bette Davis smoking over Stepmother role -
I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I am trying to learn from it.
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I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that's the last thing I wanted.
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I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
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I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
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I started trying to be a writer and failed for years. I tried novels, short stories, sitcoms, movies, plays, anything. And then, to support myself, I had millions of jobs on the fringes of show business.
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I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it.
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I tend to be more of a novel writer. In fact, some of my novels started out as short stories, and I just got carried away! I think some of my best writing is in the short story form, but novels come more naturally to me.
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I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.
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I think the best way to find out about something is to try to do it to the max. A lot of people take up a hobby or sport and then find an excuse not to carry on with it. Once I start something, I won't stop until I'm as good at it as I'll ever be.
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I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
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I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
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I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.
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I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer.
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I'll never stop a bullet but a bullet might stop me.
I'll never drink the ocean but the ocean might drink me.
And I'll never raise a portrait to a gentle man in blue
And I'll never sing a love song for a love that isn't true. I love how the garden grows
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I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.
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I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
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I'm in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It's fun.
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