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8803 Writer Quotes

I think firmly that art is no use to anyone unless it offers some kind of consolation or hope.
Anyone Art Consolation Firmly
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It wasn't until 1963 that you would really want to listen to any kind of English music.
Any English Kind Listen
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If it's not gripping you, you are reading the wrong book.

Book Gripping Reading Wrong
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I can't imagine writing a screenplay where I didn't feel deeply connected at some kind of visceral level to the material.

Connected Deeply Feel Imagine
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I've always been able to enjoy aspects of my life.
Able Always Aspects Been
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You can't really ask for anything more than to be working for your entire life - and to be doing something that some people respond to.

Anything Ask Doing Entire
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The easiest thing to write was 'Fever Pitch' because it was a memoir.

Because Easiest Fever Memoir
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Whether I am writing about a man or woman makes no difference in terms of difficulty.

About Am Difference Difficulty
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Writing is about confidence and wondering what the point of anything is.

About Anything Confidence Point
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If you're 22 and got everything you want, what are you going to write about for the rest of your life?

About Everything Going Got
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I think it does everybody a lot of good to have a period of no success.

Everybody Good Lot Period
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I do not wish to produce prose that draws attention to itself, rather than the world it describes.
Attention Draws Itself Produce
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We need a romantic illusion to embark on relationships in the first place. After that, they survive or fail for other, more practical reasons.

After Embark Fail First
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Men use music and football to fill up holes in their lives.

Fill Football Holes Lives
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It's like when you get sick of your own cooking: I occasionally wish I could write something that didn't come out sounding like me. All writers must experience that.

All Come Cooking Could
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Words don't come very easily to me. Which, given my profession, is a worrying impediment.
Come Easily Given Impediment
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Football really felt like a private thing when I was in my teens because it wasn't on television, for a start, apart from 'Match of the Day.'

Apart Because Day Football
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If adults are not enjoying something they're doing in their leisure time, they should stop doing it.

Adult Doing Enjoying Leisure
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I think the things that are most intimate are nameless and shapeless.

Intimate Most Things Think
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I can't stand it when writers moan about what film-makers might do or have done to their books. There's a very simple answer: don't take the money.

About Answer Books Done
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It's a great relief that you're not as bad a parent as you thought you were.
Bad Great Parent Relief
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The Internet's changed everything. There are no record stores to hang out in anymore.

Anymore Changed Everything Hang
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My relationships are fairly stable.
Relationships Fairly Stable
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With movies, it always feels like such a long shot getting it made.

Always Feels Getting Like
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I think that every book that's in a bookstore should entertain in some way.
Book Book store Entertain Every
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I'm really not a big rereader - I'm too aware of my own ignorance.

Aware Big Ignorance Own
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I write slowly. I can't move on until I've got a paragraph right.

Got Move Move On Paragraph
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There's music every day. I don't think I could write without it. Not that I listen while I'm writing. It's more hearing a piece of music that I want to somehow convert into prose, as a creative inspiration.

Convert Could Creative Day
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I don’t want to do 100 projects in my lifetime. Whatever I do must be memorable, and that opens the door to bigger things.

Want Project Lifetime Memorable
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If you are not looking for something demanding then you should go and sit on a cruise ship and enjoy yourself.

Looking Demanding Sit Ship
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We all won’t be bankers, we all won’t be oil barons, but we will all work together in the beauty of the world.

Bankers Barons Work Beauty
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You could have the greatest wings to fly, but you need to have the budget to fly with it.

Greatest wings Fly Budget
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Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count

Been Born Experiencing Go
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You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.

Comedy Degrees Fact Generally
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Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

Sometimes Likes Foolish people Wisdom
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How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly.

Easy Judge rightly Judging wrongly
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I know you despise me; allow me to say, it is because you don't understand me

Despise me Understand me
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There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.
Wounded affection Poignancy Anger
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A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

Wise parent Desire Friend Advisor
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I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.

Reason Always Means Someone else
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But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be.

Future Met Stern Iron
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But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.

Cloud Never comes Horizon Watch
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I wanted to see the place where Margaret grew to what she is, even at the worst time of all, when I had no hope of ever calling her mine..

Wanted Place Worst time Hope
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I dare not hope. I never was fainthearted before; but I cannot believe such a creature cares for me.

Dare not Hope Believe Creature
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Thinking has, many a time, made me sad, darling; but doing never did in all my life....My precept is, do something, my sister, do good if you can; but at any rate, do something.
Thinking Many time Life
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Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others.

Happy Successful themselves Misfortunes
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Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.

Loyalty Obedience Wisdom Arbitrary power
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Come! Poor little heart! Be cheery and brave. We'll be a great deal to one another, if we are thrown off and left desolate.

Come Poor Little heart Brave
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As she realized what might have been, she grew to be thankful for what was.

She realized Grew Thankful
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A girl in love will do a good deal.

Girl In love Good deal
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