Written Quotes - Page 9

• One word after another. That's the only way that novels get written and, short of elves coming in the night and turning your jumbled notes into Chapter Nine, it's the only way to do it. So keep on keeping on. Write another word and then another.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Night, Nine

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• Everyone of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.

  Bob Dylan

  Poetry, Soul, Coal

  Bob Dylan (2013). “Lyrics:1962-2012”, p.480, Simon and Schuster

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• I think there's a general misconception that anything written quickly lacks quality, and I don't believe that.

  Michael Connelly

  Believe, Thinking, Quality

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• Virginia Woolf came along in the early part of the century and essentially said through her writing, yes, big books can be written about the traditional big subjects. There is war. There is the search for God. These are all very important things.

  Michael Cunningham

  War, Book, Writing

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• Scientology is not written with disrespect toward God. It doesn't worship something that is evil. It is scientific, mathematical, and spiritual. The black community has to check it out and see what's there. I'm not saying it's for everyone, but you have to take a look.

  Doug E. Fresh

  Spiritual, Evil, Community

  "Scientology appealing to African-Americans" by Matthew Hay Brown, www.baltimoresun.com. September 7, 2009.

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• Rescue Me' is the first book in a three-book series. Although, like all my series, the books are purposely written so that readers do not have to read them in order.

  Rachel Gibson

  Book, Order, Three

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• I don't think I could have written what I did any earlier.

  Terry Goodkind

  Thinking

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• A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation.

  Tom Glazer

  Mind, Generations, Purpose

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• When I do stand-up for a long time, I'll get burned out, then I'll get an acting gig. For me, the grass is always greener. I'd like to do a mixture of all of it. My goal is just to do small movies that I've written. That's what I'm trying to do now, just write smaller movies.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Writing, Long, Goal

  Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. March 7, 2007.

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• I've never directed before, so I need to make sure that people know that I can. The movie that I've written, 'The Sophisticates,' is a... small ensemble comedy and I hope it's charming and funny.

  Lena Headey

  People, Needs, Ensemble

  "Lena Headey Talks Sexy Vamps, Her New Flick and More". Interview with Stacie Ponder, www.amc.com. 2009.

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• Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Abc's, Add, Dots

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• We do not get to this age to be written off. Older people can act as a support system, which is what happens more in Mediterranean countries. People become much wiser as they get older and we should value that.

  Susan Hampshire

  Country, Support Systems, People

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• When you break it all down, my punk rock is my dad's blues. It's music from the underground, and it's real, and it's written for the downtrodden in uncertain times.

  Frank Iero

  Dad, Real, Rocks

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• You need to look no further than Apple's iPhone to see how fast brilliantly written software presented on a beautifully designed device with a spectacular user interface will throw all the accepted notions about pricing, billing platforms and brand loyalty right out the window.

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

  Loyalty, Iphone, Apples

  "Hell Freezes Over: Warner Music claims Itunes is Digital Music Done Right" by Bryan Gardiner, www.wired.com. November 14, 2007.

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• I don't write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I've ever had has been about 50-50 songs I've written or co-written and other people's songs.

  Alan Jackson

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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

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• The song Dakota was first written in Paris. I was doing a promo trip. It was snowing and the hotel room was really cold and boring and for some reason I just had a go of the guitar and the song came pretty quick.

  Kelly Jones

  Song, Guitar, Paris

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• Like all bands, the first two albums are always the ones most written about, and the most covered. When a band gets to their third of fourth album, the story of the band has already been told.

  Kelly Jones

  Two, Albums, Band

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• I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed my music, and that's the most important thing as far as I'm concerned.

  Norah Jones

  Important, Said, Feels

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• No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don't see the point in doing that.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Book, Purpose, Reader

  "Bigger than Dan Brown" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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• I tried once in my life to write a novel. I had written something like 80 pages of it when my laptop got stolen. When I told people this, they acted as if something tragic had happened, but I kind of felt relieved, grateful to the thief who saved me from another year of something that felt more like homework than fun.

  Etgar Keret

  Fun, Grateful, Writing

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• Sometimes, when you are in a really constrained situation, it makes you more focused about what you want to say and where you're heading. The most beautiful love poems that were ever written are sonnets, composed in a very constraining form.

  Etgar Keret

  Beautiful, Want, Sometimes

  "Parables of anarchy". Interview With Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2005.

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• When something bad is written about me, I find it hurtful. So I choose not to look at it.

  Patsy Kensit

  Hurtful, Looks

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• Much is written about the Batman because he is publicly exposed in print. Very little is known personally about his creator, because I haven't given out that many interviews.

  Bob Kane

  Littles, Interviews, Given

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• Even the lifelong traveler knows but an infinitesimal portion of the Earth's surface. Those who have written best about the land and its wild inhabitants...have often been stay-at-home naturalists...concentrating their attention and affection on a relatively small area.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Nature, Home, Land

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• Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.

  Gary Kemp

  Lying, Reading, May

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