Write Quotes - page 77

I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written, the stories and two novels. If I had to give up what I've written in order to be clear of this disease, I wouldn't do it. (Harold Brodkey)
There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great. View quote
Harold Ramis
I recently reread an article of mine written in 1964, and I think it is still valid. There is not much difference. Many of the items on the agenda 37 years ago are still there. View quote
Harri Holkeri
I got a cable from New York saying that what I'd written about the growth of Soviet agricultural production didn't make sense because the same levels were reached under the czars. I wanted to confirm it, but by then the censors were on to me. View quote
Harrison Salisbury
I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all. View quote
Helen Dunmore
Most good roles are written for young men. We are fixated on youth. So however much people say there is nothing wrong with being bald, the reality is once the hair is gone, you might not get the parts. View quote
Ian Hart
I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant. View quote
Ion Tiriac
Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. View quote
Ivy Lee
I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982. View quote
J. A. Jance
The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold. View quote
James Lafferty
One tends to write beyond what's needed. (James Schuyler)
Not much has been written about the Nereids of modern Greece. Wherever there is a warm, healing stream they believe that it flows from the breasts of the Nereids. View quote
James Theodore Bent
I feel pretty used by the music industry, in that my contracts are written in such a way that I don't get paid. And that makes me wanna quit working for whoever thinks it is that I work for them. But I've clearly got a job that I can't quit. View quote
Jamey Johnson
I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve. View quote
Jane Asher
I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation. View quote
Jane Haddam
There are no real guidelines or maps in Australia as to how to write a show, whereas in Hollywood it's where the TV industry is created and there's a lot of work that goes into development. View quote
Jason Gann
I'm going to write a book, continue acting, continue motivational speaking and just share with people who I am and what I've learned in my second chance of life and pass it on to people in their first chance of life. View quote
J. R. Martinez
I really don't think records should be made in the manner where you sit and write, and when you're finished writing, you start recording. That just seems conventional and old-fashioned to me. View quote
Jay Reatard
When I was working on my first novel, 'The Quilter's Apprentice,' I knew I wanted to write about friendship, especially women's friendship and how women use friendship to sustain themselves and nurture each other. View quote
Jennifer Chiaverini
The fact that the theatregoing public likes my music is no credit to me. There are many other composers who write better music that the public doesn't like. View quote
Jerome Kern
When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life. (Jesse Harris)
The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying. View quote
Jessica Savitch
If you can write a character who is attractive but morally reprehensible, then you've got a character. It's got to feel like people I know and it doesn't just become a bag of tricks. View quote
Jez Butterworth
I've found it easier to write, to coalesce my thoughts, since having children. It brings you back to what you experienced yourself as a child, and you empathize with what your parents went through. View quote
Jill Hennessy
Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place. Over the years, I had my heart broken so badly that if I didn't find a way to get all the pain out, I was going to lose my mind. I was crazy! Like, wanting to slash tires and smash car windows. Crazy! I was so hurt that I had to write. View quote
Jill Scott