Shelby Foote
Related Generally, my notes and outlines comprise more words than my novels. I suppose that's one reason... FRANK PERETTI CASSANDRA CLARE CHARLES FRAZIER ELIE WIESEL I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES C. JOYBELL C. My personal opinion is that, if you're a professional writer, that you do have quotas. So every ... CHRIS BOHJALIAN Some people write a thank you note for a gift, and it's three pages long, and some people write ... BILL CALLAHAN MARCO RUBIO CHRISTOPHER MOORE JENNIFER EGAN CANDACE BUSHNELL DAVID CRYSTAL The daily quota I've set for myself is 500 words or approximately a page and a half double-space... SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH HUSEYN RAZA GARTH STEIN TANA FRENCH HARUKI MURAKAMI ARTHUR MILLER I'm not the most talented writer in the world. I know that. But I also know that I'm discipl... DAVID B. COE AVICII NICHOLAS SPARKS J. K. ROWLING AUGUST WILSON ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I think the reason I'm a writer is because first, I was a reader. I loved to read. I read a lot ... ANDREW CLEMENTS SAMMY CAHN I'm not the kind of writer that can write eight hours a day... I'm the kind of writer that t... DAVID EBERSHOFF Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having c... JERRY POURNELLE I majored in journalism at Arizona State University, where I began writing the columns I write now, ... LAURIE NOTARO I'm just me. I'm just very opinionated. I react to whatever I see. If it's good, it'... MEL B It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and plane... GEORGE GAMOW I sat down to try to write 'Edinburgh,' an autobiographical novel, and that took five years ... ALEXANDER CHEE JAMES GUNN I try to write 1,000 words. Some people say it's not about the quantity but about the quality. I... NATHANIEL RICH DARREN CRISS Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and t... KATE GRENVILLE I never learned to be a writer. I never took screenwriting courses. I never read anyone's script... DEREK CIANFRANCE RAY CHARLES I'm just a slow writer. I'm picky and careful and fastidious. FRANK PERETTI MICHELLE WILLIAMS GRETCHEN RUBIN I used to get 15-20 bunt hits a season. Now, I'm down to five or six. Infielders still play me i... STEVE FINLEY I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'... ERIC BROWN 'Made it as a writer'? I'm still wondering if I've made it as a writer. I've mad... ERIC BROWN ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH ELMORE LEONARD I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I ca... QUESTLOVE GEORGE R. R. MARTIN EDWIN EDWARDS When I see someone in a military uniform I make it a point to approach them, shake their hand and sa... MARK BURNETT It's fun working on the set... I usually work about 10 and a half hours a day, and I also study ... MILA KUNIS ARTHUR KOESTLER VIKRAM SETH HOLLY BLACK It makes me forget that I'm not going to be a major star and lead female in films whether it was... PAM GRIER Six years after I wrote the first draft of 'Plan B,' I received my first paycheck as a write... LISA LUTZ CHUCK D GRACE PALEY I write exactly what I think. If it's a raw subject, I write lots of things and then pull out al... FKA TWIGS It's funny: I put money into short films, and I put really good actors in it, and I write some s... BEN SCHWARTZ HENRY JAMES WALTER BECKER At the end of the day, it's me versus you, and I'm trying to get you out. If I can throw you... DREW POMERANZ ROBERT HARRIS ASHWIN SANGHI My job is to put words together and tell a story. If that doesn't work for you, it's not a w... ALAN ZWEIBEL Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING For me, songwriting starts with a melody. When a musician plays a chord progression, either the word... RAIN PHOENIX CAITLYN JENNER SARAH J. MAAS My mind is constantly creating and searching, but I can't make myself put the right words on pap... TAWNI O'DELL Those are the two best words in English, 'Bidding' and 'war'. EVAN DAUGHERTY 'Lip Lock' is a play on words. It sounds flirty and fun. Also, my lips are one of my favorit... EVE STEPHEN FRY TIM BURTON The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words. BILL HALEY GEORGE LUCAS TIM ROBBINS CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS My works really begin in a very simple way. Sometimes it's an image, and sometimes it's word... BILL VIOLA I think 'Holler If Ya Hear Me' is almost 'A Raisin in the Sun' 50 years later, with ... KENNY LEON I feel like I'm a secondary artist, a kind of a conduit for the writer, and if it's a good w... MAMIE GUMMER I've always said it took me 20 years to find out how to write a song in 20 minutes. BART HOWARD ADRIEN BRODY DAN BROWN JAMES ARTHUR I'm just trying to write a good story, strictly from imagination. People just think it's ran... ERIC JEROME DICKEY The company Sunfare delivers food to my house, and I eat six meals day. My two cheats are hot chocol... CHARLIE EBERSOL But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country to... T BONE BURNETT As a writer myself, my job has very often been to also write on the job. So you get the script and a... SALLY PHILLIPS And I used to say, 'I'm black, too.' In other words, I - my whole life I've been cal... DUANE CHAPMAN I try not to be overly literal. When I'm writing songs, I write down a lot of words, and then I ... NEKO CASE I cross things out more than I write them. And if I try to sing a line, and I know that it's wri... BILL CALLAHAN EVANGELINE LILLY ROBERT SILVERBERG HALSEY GEORGE R.R. MARTIN BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
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It doesn't come before. SHELBY STEELE Son, looks to me like you're spending too much time on one subject.
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Bhulaney ke liay bhi tujhy yaad tu kerna hoga,
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Born in a cellar... and living in a garret. 
He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others. 
Income tax time is when you test your powers of deduction. 
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