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I prefer reading to writing. Reading changes your world view. Writing changes absolutely nothing. Except, of course, when it makes you rich.
Michel Houellebecq
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I love getting up in the morning with nothing else to do except write.


Ron Moody
Tags: Morning Up Love
It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama.
Sean Penn
Tags: Me Any Nothing
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Nothing else matters except that I have fun, and I'm still having fun.


Quvenzhane Wallis
I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.
Len Wein
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Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.


Samuel Beckett
String theory is not the only theory that can accommodate extra dimensions, but it certainly is the one that really demands and requires it.
Brian Greene
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A great writer requires a great biography, and a great biography must tell the truth.


George Packer
Tags: Great Truth Must
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No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.


Max Beerbohm
Tags: Work Without Done
I try to transmit emotion and soul in my voice, but my true passion has always been writing. I feel more like a writer than anything else.
Romeo Santos
Tags: Like More Always
I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.
Harbhajan Singh
Tags: More Than Which
I don't consciously start writing a play that involves issues. After it's done, I sit back like everyone else and think about what it means.
Suzan-Lori Parks
Tags: Like About Think
Traditional autobiography has generally had a poor press. The novelist Daphne du Maurier condemned all examples of this literary form as self-indulgent. Others have quipped that autobiography reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.
Craig Venter
Tags: About Had His
Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as well be systematic, it's so thoroughly incentivised by our culture.
Francis Spufford
Tags: You Our Well
Ottawa is a hot spot of Canadian crime writing, with perhaps the greatest concentration of active, involved, published crime writers anywhere.
Vicki Delany
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I cannot live anywhere else except India.


Irrfan Khan
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I always find music guys writing about love. Think of something else for a change. I'm sorry, but it's been done, and it does work and it's good and all that, but I think something else would be nice.
Jesse Spencer
Tags: Good Work Music
No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
Zane Grey
Tags: Think Any His
To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness. There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together.
H. Rap Brown
Tags: Good Men Because
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You become a great writer by writing.


Peter Thiel
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