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A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.
J. B. Priestley

Nothing, Wrong, Keep

If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.
George A. Romero

Another, Off, Succeed

I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes.
Joyce Maynard

Long, Writing, Person

I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner.
Jacques Derrida

Desire, Pure, Sign

The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.
Eugenio Montale

Often, Poet, Whom

Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them 15 minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens. Who could stand to watch this kind of thing?
Wislawa Szymborska

Someone, Nothing, Person

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.
Leo Rosten

Behind, Writer, Educated

Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the.
Mary McCarthy

I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me.
Lana Del Rey

Someone, Surprised

Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is.
Trey Anastasio

Time, Alone, Guitar

And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting.
Uma Thurman

Care, Someone, Read

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
E. L. Doctorow

History, End, Why

Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.
Pamela Stephenson

Person, Perfect, Impossible

Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror.
William H. Macy

King, Horror, Ironic

James Taylor is the kind of person I always thought the word 'folksinger' referred to. He writes and sings songs that are reflections of his own life, and performs in them in his own style. All of his performances are marked by an eloquent simplicity.
Jon Landau

Life, Person, Thought

Keats writes better about poems than anybody I've ever read. The things that he says about what he wants his own poems to be are the ideals that I share.
Andrew Motion

Read, Anybody, Poems

Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.
Frederick Jackson Turner

Age, Time, History

The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.
Peter Davison

Reason, Remembered, Poem

Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays.
Gerry Mulligan

Songs, Miles, Davis

Most actors are starving. Most of us are walking around with a flashlight and tweezers looking for evidence. When you have someone that actually writes an acting role, it's rare.
Dylan McDermott

Someone, Around, Acting

I believe that this idea of story or myth or this thing that Joseph Campbell writes about is sort of an inter-connective spiritual force - like The Force in 'Star Wars' - where it doesn't matter where you were raised, or what your background is, there are certain elements of story that totally appeal to you.
Damon Lindelof

Spiritual, Matter, Idea

The authorized biographers - the ones hand-picked to write the sanitized version of a subject's life - sit up front with the swells while the unauthorized biographer who writes without access or approval gets elbowed to the back of the bus.
Kitty Kelley

Life, Write, While

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
Edward Fitzgerald

Moving, Word, Nor

My son writes songs and plays. He sings like an angel.
Edie Brickell

Son, Songs, Angel

I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same topics, it's romance, or a beach book - in short, it's something unworthy of a serious critic's attention.
Jennifer Weiner

Family, Woman, Book

Well, playing a guy who writes songs and busks on Grafton Street in Dublin and falls in love with Marketa Irglova wasn't very difficult for me. There was very little acting going on.
Glen Hansard

Love, Acting, Difficult

I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
Jackie Collins

Men, Today, Sex

Brother Jones is not my product, and I am not responsible for anything he writes or says.
John Harvey Kellogg

Brother, Says, Product

But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that's the center of it, that is it. It's almost like there's something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if you're a songwriter that sings your material.
Ben Folds

Tell, Almost, Material

I'm not really one of those people who goes and writes some big back story and agonizes over characters. I think you kind of can get it. For me personally, it's just kind of more instinctive. But I don't have kind of an acting background. I fell into it accidentally.
Rose McGowan

Big, Acting, Story

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