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• I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it.

  Hunter Parrish

  Song, Chorus, Verses

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

  Manuel Puig

  Book, Literature, Study

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• Of course a politician's promise isn't worth the paper it's written on.

  Russell Pearce

  Silly, Agreement, Promise

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• I've written something and I would like to have my first film directed by the time I'm 30.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Firsts, Film

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• I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.

  Ian Rankin

  Dad, Reading, Home

  "Gothic Scot". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2001.

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• I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is anything that strikes me that I've written.

  Amy Ray

  Book, Down And, Strikes

  "Lung Of Love : A Conversation With Amy Ray". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 24, 2012.

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• I've given some money to the scholarships in the District of Columbia, to the best students in D.C... many of the students have written me letters telling me they could not have afforded to go to college without the scholarship and money I've given them.

  David Rubenstein

  College, Letters, Students

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• I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.

  Sally Ride

  Television, Made, Memoir

  "A Conversation With Sally Ride; Painful Questions From an Ex-astronaut" by Claudia Dreifus, www.nytimes.com. August 26, 2003.

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• I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.

  Ted Rall

  Thinking, Graphic Novels, Novel

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• I liked to think I had written 'scripts' when I was in high school, but looking back at them, they were about thirty pages of wannabe-Mamet dialogue with a staple through them.

  Lorene Scafaria

  School, Thinking, Pages

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work.

  Amy Sherman-Palladino

  Pilots, Way, Madly In Love

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. February 9, 2005.

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• There isn't a lot written about the motorcycle culture.

  Katey Sagal

  Motorcycle, Culture

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• There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.

  Katey Sagal

  Song, Writing, Kind

  "'Sons of Anarchy's' Katey Sagal talks about her other life, as a singer". Interview with Susan Carpenter, latimesblogs.latimes.com. September 29, 2010.

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• Novels are written, not wished into existence. You have to sit your ass in the chair or nothing gets done.

  John Dufresne

  Writing, Done, Ass

  John Dufresne (2010). “Is Life Like This?: A Guide to Writing Your First Novel in Six Months”, p.15, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Dialogue that is written in dialect is very tiring to read. If you can do it brilliantly, fine. If other writers read your work and rave about your use of dialect, go for it. But be positive that you do it well, because otherwise it is a lot of work to read short stories or novels that are written in dialect. It makes our necks feel funny.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, Being Positive, Dialect

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• It can take years. With the first draft, I just write everything. With the second draft, it becomes so depressing for me, because I realize that I was fooled into thinking I'd written the story. I hadn't-I had just typed for a long time. So then I have to carve out a story from the 25 or so pages. It's in there somewhere-but I have to find it. I'll then write a third, fourth, and fifth draft, and so on.

  David Sedaris

  Depressing, Writing, Thinking

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• We wanted to describe society from our left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.

  Maj Sjowall

  Book, Views, People

  "The queen of crime". Interview with Louise France, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2009.

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• I checked to see if there’d been a really good book published in the last few decades. Then I started with what Cleopatra would have read, asking myself, “What can we know about her education?” It turns out to be a very great deal, and bizarrely, no one had written about that before.

  Stacy Schiff

  Book, Asking, Lasts

  Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. November 2, 2010.

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• I've never written a play before, and I'll never write one again. You can quote me.

  Holland Taylor

  Writing, Play

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• I've written about 15 screenplays and they all sold - they were all sold on pitches.

  Bruce Vilanch

  Screenplays

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• A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.

  Jack Vance

  Stories, Environment, Reader

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• People recognize certain things, like 'D' means 'this dialogue stinks.' We're dealing with shows that are written here, shot in New York and posted back here. Accurate communication is a necessity.

  Dick Wolf

  New York, Communication, Mean

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• Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way, I haven't re-invented the process every time but I almost have.

  Irvine Welsh

  Book, Writing, Different

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• The musicians recommend that I sing a sing the way it is written the first time and then start to look for other notes that aren't in the melody.

  Margaret Whiting

  Musician, Looks, Way

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• Most of the press is sent to my publicist so I do see most of what is written about me.

  Sela Ward

  Publicists, Presses

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