Written Quotes - Page 8

• When I turned 19 I kinda realized that I needed to write my own songs instead of singing songs written by other people.

  Colbie Caillat

  Song, Writing, People

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• The thing that I like about the way characters are written on the show these days is that nobody's perfect. Everyone has made a lot of mistakes and bad choices.

  Crystal Chappell

  Mistake, Character, Perfect

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• I entered a poem in a poetry contest around 1987, and the poem won and I received $1,000 for it. That made me realize that maybe what I was writing was worth reading to people. After that, for some reason, I turned to novels and I've written mainly novels ever since.

  Sharon Creech

  Reading, Writing, People

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• My issue in the past with nudity was that these scenes had been written solely for box office draw.

  Neve Campbell

  Past, Issues, Office

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• I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in writing about my own life or intruding in the privacy of those around me.

  Peter Carey

  Writing, Selfishness, Here And There

  "An Interview With Author Peter Carey". Interview with Ben Evans, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2010.

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• We mustn't forget we chose the name 'WWW' before there was even one line of code written. We could do that because the Internet as an infrastructure was already there.

  Robert Cailliau

  Names, Lines, One Line

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• A lot of stuff written about me is rubbish. I don't know where they get it from, sometimes.

  Agyness Deyn

  Stuff, Rubbish, Sometimes

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

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• Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.

  Anita Diament

  Practice, Community, Contemporary

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• Your senses are reeling all the time. Finally you find something to write and the very next day you go out and see something else which totally contradicts what you've written and every conclusion you've come to.

  Charles Dance

  Writing, Next Day, Conclusion

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• One of my real goals was to hear someone whistling a song I'd written.

  Mac Davis

  Song, Real, Goal

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

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• In ways I don't entirely have the words for an experience, thought or a lesson isn't real for me until I've written down.

  Alexandra Fuller

  Real, Lessons, Way

  "'Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness' by Alexandra Fuller". Interview with Jeff Glor, www.cbsnews.com. September 19, 2011.

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• I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.

  Alexandra Fuller

  Book, Becoming, Wonderful

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• One novel that I think is an overriding influence in my life is 'All the King's Men,' the most beautiful book written in the U.S.

  Andrew Gross

  Beautiful, Kings, Book

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• The only thing that I'm not willing to do is really stupid, horribly written sitcoms. It can be tempting during pilot season time, but I realized this a while ago when I almost signed my life away to a stupid pilot.

  Ari Graynor

  Stupid, Pilots, I Realized

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have no objection to well-written romance, but I'd read enough of it to know that that's not what I had written. I also knew that if it was sold as romance I'd never be reviewed by the 'New York Times' or any other literarily respectable newspaper - which is basically true, although the 'Washington Post' did get round to me eventually.

  Diana Gabaldon

  New York, Romance, Enough

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• What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Art, Patterns, Chaos

  "AUTHOR INTERVIEW - Accidental Tourist / Diana Gabaldon reveals the inspiration for her popular time-travel series" by Alix Madrigal, www.sfgate.com. January 26, 1997.

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• I've written what and when I want to. It's been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to learn to do everything in a very specific, disciplined way. I am very disciplined, but this demanded a totally different kind of discipline. A real challenge.

  Joan Armatrading

  Real, Discipline, Challenges

  "I prefer birdsong to chatter". Interview with Helen Birch, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2005.

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• There are some different things I'm writing and developing, but I don't know where they'll go. They're fun stuff that I would be in and are written in my voice, for me.

  Abby Elliott

  Fun, Writing, Voice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What has always surprised me when I walk into a bookstore is the number of books that you can find that are written with certainty. The authors tell some story as though it's true, but they don't have any evidence that it is true!

  David Eagleman

  Book, Numbers, Stories

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• I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don't think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet.

  Justin Townes Earle

  Teacher, Writing, School

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• I don't just want my books to be about the '30s and '40s. I want them to read as if they had been written then. I think of them as '40s novels, written in the conservative narrative past.

  Alan Furst

  Book, Past, Thinking

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• I have always credited the writer of the original material above the title: Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Bram Stoker's Dracula, or John Grisham's The Rainmaker. I felt that I didn't have the right to Francis Coppola's anything unless I had written the story and the screenplay.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Directors, Titles, Stories

  Buography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Rhyme written in graffiti xeroxed on blueprints, students influenced are now a nuisance.

  Louis Eric Barrier

  Art, Media, Entertainment

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• Things which any idiot could write usually have the quality of having been written by an idiot.

  Bram Cohen

  Writing, Quality, Idiot

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• I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.

  David Allan Coe

  Song

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