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Writer: It's not an occupation; it's a compulsion.
TERESA NIELSEN HAYDEN I always thought Jon Stewart was an extremely good surgeon with his scalpel. He would have Republica...
GREG GUTFELD For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short st...
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BRIAN ALDISS We just assumed that Walter Cronkite was unbiased. In hindsight, it is clear that Walter Cronkite wa...
ANDREW BREITBART![]()
If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o...
DEYTH BANGER Compulsion: noun, mass noun; an ability possessed by certain Que Cum Virtute Judicium (Virts) to for...
ALEX LANE [Williams] had a great fourth quarter. He made second-team All-County and All-TCL [but] there is no ...
JAY AIRHART![]()
It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER I always wanted to find oil. It was always an irresistible calling.
HAROLD HAMM And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge.
ANDREA MARTIN It was like someone snapped their finger and the hypnosis was over, and he went back to being Jon Br...
LORENZO ROMAR I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn't something I wanted to be. An ...
JOHN SAYLES![]()
It was a very bad idea. It was a terrible idea. It was the worst idea he had ever heard. It was irre...
CASSANDRA CLARE![]()
Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS That's why Tennessee Williams was a great writer. Poetically, dramatically, it was fantastic stu...
CIARAN HINDS And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge.
ANDREA MARTIN She swallowed the ridicule & washed it down with criticism, It was far sweeter than the taste of...
C.E. O'GRADY Everything you could imagine Robin Williams being, he was and more.
ROBERTO AGUIRE GOD IS ALWAYS WITH US HE'S NEVER TOOK A SICK DAY !
MITCHELL GREEN![]()
The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.
MAE WEST![]()
There are no ugly women, only lazy ones
HELENA RUBINSTEIN![]()
Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she mana...
LESLIE MCINTYRE![]()
Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky
DEBORAH KERR![]()
Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk,...
PETRONIUS![]()
If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted - there is practically nothing she can't...
HELEN LAWRENSON![]()
Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn...
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE![]()
The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could g...
BETTY GRABLE![]()
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
JOSEPH CONRAD![]()
There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad dayl...
WASHINGTON IRVING![]()
I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the fi...
GILDA RADNER [He considers me] just a uterus with legs.
MARY BETH WHITEHEAD![]()
They didn't have very far to fall--I knew just being a girl in the world handicapped your ability to...
EMMA CLINE For me, the heyday was in 1959. It was before the Ferus Gallery moved across the street, in the days...
BILLY AL BENGSTON Every famous writer was once an unknown writer. If publishers never published new writers, they woul...
VICTORIA STRAUSS![]()
I wanted to be a writer since I was in high school, but I never thought it was possible.
ELLEN BASS I was a fan of Jon Jones. I thought he was great.
DANIEL CORMIER Shoot Walter! Shoot like it was the devil.
WILHELM II, KING OF ENGLAND, TO HIS HUNTING-PARTNER WHO MISSED THE DEER.![]()
The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.
TONI CADE BAMBARA![]()
Being a writer is a very private, internal process. Ultimately I am more the writer, being an introv...
PAULA COLE I thought I would write a love letter. But then, I wrote a book." - Suzy Davies, on "Johari's Window
SUZY DAVIES I never thought I was a writer. My teacher, Ruth Johnson, pulled it out of me.
REBECCA ALLEN![]()
I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was a...
ANN HOOD The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a clo...
VIKAS SWARUP With the fragmentation of television audiences and the advent of cable and on-demand services, the p...
JILL ABRAMSON![]()
This was the way he had to go; he had no choice. He had never had any choice. He was only a dreamer.
URSULA K. LE GUIN![]()
I was always attracted and repelled by the idea of being a writer.
LOUIS THEROUX It was believed this type of compulsion could be treated.
TOD TAMBERG![]()
Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life a...
JOSE SARAMAGO![]()
You marry out of free will. If I marry, it will be from a personal choice, not some social compulsio...
SONAM KAPOOR They should free his remains. I'm a huge fan of Ted Williams. When I was a kid, the first bat I got ...
DANIEL EDWARDS![]()
When the candles are out all women are fair
PLUTARCH Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.
JANE RULE![]()
She must not swing her arms as though they were dangling ropes; she must not switch herself this way...
EMILY POST So few grown women like their lives
KATHARINE GRAHAM I am my own woman.
EVITA PERóN![]()
Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.
GLORIA STEINEM The moment WE realize our mistakes, our sins, our selfishness, the trouble we gave others, the pain ...
NEHA KOTHARI You touch a screen to turn off lights in a room or activate the alarm system. The home owner can als...
GEORGE JAMES Women are looking for good father material. He can mention the fact that he knows how to coach Littl...
LORI GOTTLIEB The big stars I felt a kinship with were never the romantic leads. It wasn't Steve McQueen or Ro...
ALFRED MOLINA![]()
Walter Mayer was a hero at a Salvation Army home fire in Cincinnati.
RING LARDNER Carroll was a Hank Williams kind of guy.
SARAH STACEY![]()
I don’t know what message to send to Bran. Help him Tyrion.”
“What help could I give him?...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down...
BARRY LEVINSON![]()
Reading was not just an escape or a Band-Aid; it was a deep form of feeling seen and recognized, and...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG But it was never about that. It was never about competing with people with legs. It was about being ...
DEBORAH MCFADDEN At the very beginning of my career, when I opened my business in Italy, I was also a ranked tennis p...
OLEG CASSINI I was a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams.
ST. VINCENT Mr. Williams was having a good time with a woman who was 100 percent consenting.
JOE FRIEDBERG Being a "Walter Mitty" in the martial arts is popular, but it is not practical.
ROBERTO TORRES LIFESTYLE TRAINER I was under total compulsion, ... Dateline NBC.
MARK DAVID CHAPMAN![]()
Having Jon as my partner for 26 years I've been inspired and challenged to become a better musician,...
RICHIE SAMBORA Modelling was never a career option for me; it was always a hobby. I was modelling while I was pursu...
KRITI SANON![]()
Liverpool has always made me brave, choice-wise. It was never a city that criticised anyone for taki...
DAVID MORRISSEY Walter Morrison was the soul of honor.
CHARLES SAUNDERS Tennessee Williams is an incredible writer for women because, in many ways, his women characters are...
LAILA ROBINS It was a very embarrassing thing for them. They really had no choice and I recognized that I was an ...
GEORGE HSU If your presence doesn't make an impact, your absence won't make a difference.
TREY SMITH It was an inspired choice and an inspiring performance. There doesn't seem to be a weakness in your ...
DAVE THOMPSON 'Out' was my real breakthrough, the novel that became a hit in Japan and sold a lot of books...
NATSUO KIRINO Being a teenager is hard.
MAE WHITMAN![]()
I enjoy being a girl.
PALOMA FAITH Sometimes creativity is a compulsion, not an ambition.
ED NORTON The Busted thing happened when I was 16. I saw an opportunity, took it and it was better than being ...
CHARLIE SIMPSON I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.
MICKEY SPILLANE I'm a commercial writer, not an "author." Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.
MICKEY SPILLANE You can't call Ronnie Barker a comedian - he was an actor and a great writer.
BRUCE FORSYTH![]()
Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.
PAUL VALERY![]()
Being funny wasn't a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive...
TRACY MORGAN![]()
It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther...
NEIL GAIMAN![]()
My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn&...
TOM WOLFE![]()
I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complain...
JAMES A. MICHENER![]()
I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century:
that a writer never complain...
JAMES A. MICHENER![]()
I met Robin Williams a few times, and he was a beautiful guy.
BILL HADER![]()
We're talking to Jon Stewart, who was just lecturing us on our moral inferiority. Jon, you're bummin...
TUCKER CARLSON Being a writer is a gift, being an author is amazing, becoming a best seller is everyone's dream
LAQUITA CAMERON it's okay to feel things. And be who you are about them.
STEPHEN CHOBOSKY![]()
The glorification of the "'woman's role," then, seems to be in proportion to society's reluctance to...
BETTY FRIEDAN ...everybody wants to make a difference, but nobody is willing to be different.
ANDY ANDREWS
TERESA NIELSEN HAYDEN I always thought Jon Stewart was an extremely good surgeon with his scalpel. He would have Republica...
GREG GUTFELD For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short st...
LAURA HILLENBRAND I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, be...
BRIAN ALDISS We just assumed that Walter Cronkite was unbiased. In hindsight, it is clear that Walter Cronkite wa...
ANDREW BREITBART
If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o... DEYTH BANGER Compulsion: noun, mass noun; an ability possessed by certain Que Cum Virtute Judicium (Virts) to for...
ALEX LANE [Williams] had a great fourth quarter. He made second-team All-County and All-TCL [but] there is no ...
JAY AIRHART
It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER I always wanted to find oil. It was always an irresistible calling.
HAROLD HAMM And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge.
ANDREA MARTIN It was like someone snapped their finger and the hypnosis was over, and he went back to being Jon Br...
LORENZO ROMAR I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn't something I wanted to be. An ...
JOHN SAYLES
It was a very bad idea. It was a terrible idea. It was the worst idea he had ever heard. It was irre... CASSANDRA CLARE
Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial. TENNESSEE WILLIAMS That's why Tennessee Williams was a great writer. Poetically, dramatically, it was fantastic stu...
CIARAN HINDS And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge.
ANDREA MARTIN She swallowed the ridicule & washed it down with criticism, It was far sweeter than the taste of...
C.E. O'GRADY Everything you could imagine Robin Williams being, he was and more.
ROBERTO AGUIRE GOD IS ALWAYS WITH US HE'S NEVER TOOK A SICK DAY !
MITCHELL GREEN
The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it. MAE WEST
There are no ugly women, only lazy ones HELENA RUBINSTEIN
Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she mana... LESLIE MCINTYRE
Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky DEBORAH KERR
Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk,... PETRONIUS
If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted - there is practically nothing she can't... HELEN LAWRENSON
Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn... CLARE BOOTHE LUCE
The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could g... BETTY GRABLE
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. JOSEPH CONRAD
There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad dayl... WASHINGTON IRVING
I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the fi... GILDA RADNER [He considers me] just a uterus with legs.
MARY BETH WHITEHEAD
They didn't have very far to fall--I knew just being a girl in the world handicapped your ability to... EMMA CLINE For me, the heyday was in 1959. It was before the Ferus Gallery moved across the street, in the days...
BILLY AL BENGSTON Every famous writer was once an unknown writer. If publishers never published new writers, they woul...
VICTORIA STRAUSS
I wanted to be a writer since I was in high school, but I never thought it was possible. ELLEN BASS I was a fan of Jon Jones. I thought he was great.
DANIEL CORMIER Shoot Walter! Shoot like it was the devil.
WILHELM II, KING OF ENGLAND, TO HIS HUNTING-PARTNER WHO MISSED THE DEER.
The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible. TONI CADE BAMBARA
Being a writer is a very private, internal process. Ultimately I am more the writer, being an introv... PAULA COLE I thought I would write a love letter. But then, I wrote a book." - Suzy Davies, on "Johari's Window
SUZY DAVIES I never thought I was a writer. My teacher, Ruth Johnson, pulled it out of me.
REBECCA ALLEN
I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was a... ANN HOOD The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a clo...
VIKAS SWARUP With the fragmentation of television audiences and the advent of cable and on-demand services, the p...
JILL ABRAMSON
This was the way he had to go; he had no choice. He had never had any choice. He was only a dreamer. URSULA K. LE GUIN
I was always attracted and repelled by the idea of being a writer. LOUIS THEROUX It was believed this type of compulsion could be treated.
TOD TAMBERG
Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life a... JOSE SARAMAGO
You marry out of free will. If I marry, it will be from a personal choice, not some social compulsio... SONAM KAPOOR They should free his remains. I'm a huge fan of Ted Williams. When I was a kid, the first bat I got ...
DANIEL EDWARDS
When the candles are out all women are fair PLUTARCH Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.
JANE RULE
She must not swing her arms as though they were dangling ropes; she must not switch herself this way... EMILY POST So few grown women like their lives
KATHARINE GRAHAM I am my own woman.
EVITA PERóN
Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers. GLORIA STEINEM The moment WE realize our mistakes, our sins, our selfishness, the trouble we gave others, the pain ...
NEHA KOTHARI You touch a screen to turn off lights in a room or activate the alarm system. The home owner can als...
GEORGE JAMES Women are looking for good father material. He can mention the fact that he knows how to coach Littl...
LORI GOTTLIEB The big stars I felt a kinship with were never the romantic leads. It wasn't Steve McQueen or Ro...
ALFRED MOLINA
Walter Mayer was a hero at a Salvation Army home fire in Cincinnati. RING LARDNER Carroll was a Hank Williams kind of guy.
SARAH STACEY
I don’t know what message to send to Bran. Help him Tyrion.”“What help could I give him?...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down...
BARRY LEVINSON
Reading was not just an escape or a Band-Aid; it was a deep form of feeling seen and recognized, and... GARTH RISK HALLBERG But it was never about that. It was never about competing with people with legs. It was about being ...
DEBORAH MCFADDEN At the very beginning of my career, when I opened my business in Italy, I was also a ranked tennis p...
OLEG CASSINI I was a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams.
ST. VINCENT Mr. Williams was having a good time with a woman who was 100 percent consenting.
JOE FRIEDBERG Being a "Walter Mitty" in the martial arts is popular, but it is not practical.
ROBERTO TORRES LIFESTYLE TRAINER I was under total compulsion, ... Dateline NBC.
MARK DAVID CHAPMAN
Having Jon as my partner for 26 years I've been inspired and challenged to become a better musician,... RICHIE SAMBORA Modelling was never a career option for me; it was always a hobby. I was modelling while I was pursu...
KRITI SANON
Liverpool has always made me brave, choice-wise. It was never a city that criticised anyone for taki... DAVID MORRISSEY Walter Morrison was the soul of honor.
CHARLES SAUNDERS Tennessee Williams is an incredible writer for women because, in many ways, his women characters are...
LAILA ROBINS It was a very embarrassing thing for them. They really had no choice and I recognized that I was an ...
GEORGE HSU If your presence doesn't make an impact, your absence won't make a difference.
TREY SMITH It was an inspired choice and an inspiring performance. There doesn't seem to be a weakness in your ...
DAVE THOMPSON 'Out' was my real breakthrough, the novel that became a hit in Japan and sold a lot of books...
NATSUO KIRINO Being a teenager is hard.
MAE WHITMAN
I enjoy being a girl. PALOMA FAITH Sometimes creativity is a compulsion, not an ambition.
ED NORTON The Busted thing happened when I was 16. I saw an opportunity, took it and it was better than being ...
CHARLIE SIMPSON I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.
MICKEY SPILLANE I'm a commercial writer, not an "author." Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.
MICKEY SPILLANE You can't call Ronnie Barker a comedian - he was an actor and a great writer.
BRUCE FORSYTH
Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken. PAUL VALERY
Being funny wasn't a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive... TRACY MORGAN
It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther... NEIL GAIMAN
My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn&... TOM WOLFE
I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complain... JAMES A. MICHENER
I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century:
that a writer never complain... JAMES A. MICHENER
I met Robin Williams a few times, and he was a beautiful guy. BILL HADER
We're talking to Jon Stewart, who was just lecturing us on our moral inferiority. Jon, you're bummin... TUCKER CARLSON Being a writer is a gift, being an author is amazing, becoming a best seller is everyone's dream
LAQUITA CAMERON it's okay to feel things. And be who you are about them.
STEPHEN CHOBOSKY
The glorification of the "'woman's role," then, seems to be in proportion to society's reluctance to... BETTY FRIEDAN ...everybody wants to make a difference, but nobody is willing to be different.
ANDY ANDREWS
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