Author Index: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

V. S. Naipaul Quote: 'I really wasn't equipped to be ...'

Related Quotes

dolomites mountains italy alpine
I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.


Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Tags: Always Had Felt
I felt like I had a really bad case of writer's block... Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.
Eminem
Tags: Music Me Like
I guess, when I left university, I liked the idea of being a writer, and I thought then that being a writer really meant that you were a novelist. But if one of the impulses for being a novelist is wanting to be a storyteller, I never had any urge to tell stories.
Geoff Dyer
Tags: You Really Had
For my Oxford degree, I had to translate French and German philosophy (as it turned out, Descartes and Kant) at sight without a dictionary. That meant Germany for my first summer vacation, to learn the thorny language on my own.
Paul Engle
Tags: Out Had First
I went to Goucher College in Maryland for the best possible reasons - to learn - but then I dropped out at 19 for the best possible reasons - to become a writer.
Anne Lamott
Tags: Best Out Then
I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be loved. And to lose people close to me. Had to feel deep loneliness and sorrow. And then I could write.
Louise Penny
Tags: People Me Like
Contrary to popular belief, Oxford has the highest concentration of dull-witted, stupid, narrow-minded people anywhere in the British Isles.
Geoff Dyer
With the enactment of the bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act, we have taken an important step toward achieving federal education policies that will allow students to learn and achieve at the highest possible level.
Sue Kelly
The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.
Balthus
Tags: Who Really Only
I didn't worry about it because I kind of felt I left a good message and memory with the people in terms of my work, and I always felt with a good record, I could always come back.
Tina Turner
Tags: Good Work People
croda da lago tofane dolomites
I have the highest possible regard for the district attorneys in the State of New York.


Eric Schneiderman
Tags: New State York
I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.
Serena Williams
Tags: Work Smile You
dolomites mountains italy
I boxed in Golden Gloves at Oxford and still know how to throw a straight left jab.


Kris Kristofferson
Tags: Know How Still
I always wanted to be a writer... 'Critical Care' was my first published work. I was 34 when it came out. I was accumulating 'Critical Care' for years. I would go for a whole year and not touch it. And then I'd go back to it.
Richard Dooling
Tags: Work Out Always
As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production.
Will Self
I really feel like because I had my son so young, I didn't want everyone's help. I think people felt entitled to give advice, so I'm always very sensitive to moms and letting them feel their way out.
Solange Knowles
Tags: People Like Think
Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.
Dimebag Darrell
Tags: Work Learning Me
wave surf swirl water sea nature
I was always meant to be a writer. I've felt that way since I was a child.


Tess Gerritsen
Tags: Always Way Since
When I was on 'SNL,' I was getting weirdly anxious about being on camera, which I had never really done before. And so my solution was just to not watch my stuff. And then I found out that other actors do it, too, and I felt less weird about it.
Bill Hader
Tags: About Just Out
Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez