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When I was writing 'Kitchen Confidential,' I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car. Anthony Bourdain
Time Writing Car Own Furniture My Own Kitchen Never Had Rent Years Owned Confidential Behind Taxes Paid
But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward. Colin Powell
You Constitution Writing Country Later Compromise Compromises Sooner Sooner Or Later Got Making Arrive Were Did Move Just Forward Start Consensus Philadelphia
Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well. Margaret Atwood
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Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. Mark Twain
Time You Writing Will Every Damn Every Time Delete Write Editor Very Just Substitute Should Your Inclined
In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior. Ray Bradbury
Life Myself Day Happy Every Day Writing Joy Result Behavior My Life Mirror Every Back Later Only Looked Occasionally Answer Years Optimal Wonder Optimistic Person Worked Happy Person Creating Each Each Day Found Why Staring Image
So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Today Hope Writing Tomorrow
Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, illuminate your little patch of ground, the people that you know, the things that you want to commemorate. Light them up with your art, with your music, with your writing, with whatever it is that you do. Alan Moore
Life Music Art You People Writing Light Life Is A Whatever More Know Around Commemorate Lot Up Patch Want Interested Places Interesting Little Them Your Ground Illuminate Things
Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. E. L. Doctorow
You Writing Fog Way See Trip Only Driving Headlights Like Make As Far As Far Your Whole Night
Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. Gene Fowler
You Writing Sit Paper Easy Blank Drops Until Sheet Forehead Blood Form Your Staring
The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary. J. K. Rowling
Good You Writing Will Important Understanding Vocabulary Give Good Writing Like Most Most Important Thing Read Makes Important Thing Did The Most Important Much Your Thing
Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read. Ross Perot
Good Great Man Writing Worth Good Man Action Living Worth Living Worthy Object Write Written Contemplation Read Greater Than Author Being Things Two
I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those days. I wrote things to get them out of feeling them, and onto paper. So writing in a way saved me, kept me company. I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. Carrie Fisher
Love Me Writing Words Feeling Reading Saved Books Way Paper Those Out Onto Days Know Liked Wrote Reading Books Always Traditional Falling Falling In Love Lines Get Did Them Therapeutic Company Thing Things Kept
Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon. E. L. Doctorow
Good Writing Feeling Evoke Fact Good Writing Supposed Reader Sensation Being Rained Raining
Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying. Langston Hughes
Tired You Writing Wonderful Somewhere Staying Like Go Get Travelling
Easy reading is damn hard writing. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Writing Reading Damn Easy Easy Reading Hard
There are so many forms of love. Spending time with friends, love stories. I enjoy showing my love by baking a cake for somebody and writing his or her name on it, and seeing his or her reaction. I love to offer flowers, too! Pom Klementieff
Love Time Writing Cake Somebody Enjoy Too Spending Spending Time Seeing Name Baking Reaction His Friends Offer Love Stories Stories Forms Many Showing Her Flowers
Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself. Robin S. Sharma
Life You Conversation Learning Yourself Writing Goals Thoughtful Deliberate Journal Reminds Offers Where Hold Place Your
When you're writing, you're conjuring. It's a ritual, and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you're inviting into the room. Tom Waits
You Writing Sometimes Be Brave Whatever Way Respectful Out Ritual Inviting Get Brave Room Need
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it. Ernest Hemingway
Death Writing Become Once Pleasure Only Major Greatest Greatest Pleasure Stop Vice Your
Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you. Marsha Norman
Dreams You Soul Book Writing Illustrations About Your
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money. Moliere
Love You Writing Money First Few Like Friends Close Close Friends Then
The heart and soul of good writing is research; you should write not what you know but what you can find out about. Robert J. Sawyer
Good You Soul Heart Writing Research Out Find About Write Good Writing Know Heart And Soul Should
Writing the perfect paper is a lot like a military operation. It takes discipline, foresight, research, strategy, and, if done right, ends in total victory. Ryan Holiday
Writing Discipline Victory Research Military Strategy Paper Total Perfect Takes Like Operation Lot Foresight Done Ends Military Operation Right
I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are the things that give my writing power. Sandra Cisneros
Woman Writing Power Distinctive Latina Those Give Make Am Things
I remember that as I was writing a poem on 'Snow' when I was eight, I said aloud, 'I wish I could have the ability to write down the feelings I have now when I am little, because when I grow up, I will know how to write, but I will have forgotten what being little feels like.' Sylvia Plath
Writing Remember Will Wish Feelings Down Ability Poem Could Write Feels Like Aloud Know Because Said How Am Up Snow Forgotten Being Eight Little Grow Grow Up Now
To me, the great joy of writing is discovering. Most writers are told to write about what they know, but I still love the adventure of going out and reporting on things I don't know about. Tom Wolfe
Love Great Me Writing Joy Out Great Joy About Write Writers Adventure Know Most Still Discovering Reporting Going Things
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