Being goal-oriented instead of self-oriented is crucial. I know so many people who want to be writers. But let me tell you, they really don't want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print. They don't want to go through the work of getting the damn book out. There is a huge difference.
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Related I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have conclud... JAMES A. MICHENER And what do they want!? DEYTH BANGER I resent people who say writers write from experience. Writers don't write from experience, though m... NIKKI GIOVANNI if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Everyone of them is staying, ... They dont want to go back. They have told me that. AMY COLLINS The fact is, unlike a lot of writers, I credit the people who help me. A lot of writers out there ha... GRAYDON CARTER The words I'm singing now
Mean nothing more than meow to an animal THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS people dont know you till they meet you. dont smile if you dont want to, dont be a false person, don... CAROLINA JANETTE GOMEZ GONZALEZ Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsci... MARY KARR The most common thing I find is very brilliant, acute, young people who want to become writers but t... TEJU COLE Be who you want to be not what others think you should be. BILAL SAIF Why people become writers?? It's logical, they don't have what to do and they are bored and the... DEYTH BANGER I dont want to be broke down I want to be built up and vice versa I dont want to break down but buil... HEATHER MONTANO One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the sam... JUSTIN CRONIN Don't let your characters tell you what to do. They can be pushy. Some writers say that they cre... CHELSEA CAIN I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outsi... AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childh... TEA OBREHT This is the same establishment that all those who want, or rather aspire to, to be literary figures ... ABIGAIL GEORGE If you don’t have a goal and don’t know where you want to be and when you want be there. You are... AHMED ALI ANJUM Now they have a riddle. - Criminal Minds DEYTH BANGER It's a different generation. They don't want to sit and have tea and listen to a speech. They need t... BOB GORDON You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers ... RAY BRADBURY In the U.K., a lot of writers won't show up to support activist issues because they figure they&... JIM CRACE You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock ... EDDIE VAN HALEN Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them.... TANITH LEE Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be do... LOUISE BROWN There are a lot of people, who want to be writers, who stumble at a blank page. You could imagine an... PHILIP M. PARKER People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. Th... LEONARDO DICAPRIO People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. Th... LEONARDO DICAPRIO Our age group is more project-oriented. And they won't flinch about spending money while our parents... JANET ARMOUR The biggest lie in the world is that when people tell you that what they really want is for you to t... CARL WHITE Young people are very astute; they know what they want and the kind of work environment they want to... LORETTA WALKER One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the award... WAYLON JENNINGS A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Usually, new producers and writers want to put their stamp on a show. They don't want to continu... ANTHONY GEARY There are actors who aren't on the cover of magazines but still decide what work they want and w... FRAN KRANZ When people ask me why I wrote this book, I answer that very few writers with colorful, exotic paren... CLEVE GRAY People want to be inspired by the movies, they want to have a cathartic experience and they want to ... BRANDON GRAY If they want to be someone who is not loathsome, they'll have to wait till the next book. AYELET WALDMAN Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk abou... SALMAN RUSHDIE I have so many friends who have no idea what they want to do. They are out of college and working, b... KATE MARA There's a lot of comics writers out there whose work I appreciate and who are nice guys. I reall... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI This is a management team that has never held a board meeting in Boise. They don't want to be in fro... DAVE PETSO You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written b... CORNELIA FUNKE Savor the moment. Set a goal that you value and plan the steps to of getting there in a way that you... TERENCE T. GORSKI The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are ... EDMUND WHITE If you want to know a country, read its writers. AMINATTA FORNA Because I want to be remembered. SHERMAN ALEXIE Many girls would rather go with friends. They want to be able to dance with whomever they want to. T... CASEY SMITH Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a... E. L. DOCTOROW The city has a reputation of being developer-oriented, not resident-oriented. Those city commissione... ED STANTON If you ask any lady they want to be taller, they want to be slimmer, you know, and they want a waist... ALEXANDER MCQUEEN Hearing from the writers is very useful to apprentice writers. They gain inspiration and learn more ... ANNA MONARDO Some are young people who don't know who they are, what they can be or even want to be. They are afr... THOMAS S. MONSON If you look at the body of any writers' work, you can figure out the questions that animate them... ISOBELLE CARMODY We want to get them career-oriented. That doesn't mean they can't go on to college. DEBBIE GRINDLE A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessaril... ROSALYNN CARTER There is a deeper, more profound reason for this craving for acceptance and glory. Put simply, it's ... CHANCERY STONE They know what they want, but aren't sure how to find it. JAMES C. DOBSON We have guys that really want to go out and play and they want to win. And they work really hard, so... FRANK WHITE They didn't want to be here, you could tell. I know they beat Auburn and Miami, but who cares? ERIC WEDDLE i want to be the best i can be but when i cant i'll try my best to achieve my goal my goals in life ... DALLY SALAD I started out with almost entirely black fans except for a little handful of people in the horror wr... TANANARIVE DUE Can you tell me the difference between a witch and a wizard? Sure, a wizard is what they ... BARBARA HAMBLY People live for eating,but
I eat for survive OM BENIWAL I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three p... NIKKI GIOVANNI They are here in our city, they are visitors, they are welcome. We want to help them in any way we c... BETH WOOD In order to get what you want, you must first decide what you want. Most people really foul up at th... JACK CANFIELD Readers have the right to say whatever the fuck they want about a book. Period. They have that right... STACIA KANE They want a positive conclusion, ... They want to be able to work. JOE MANCHIN Doubt the people that say who they are and believe in the people who tell you who they want to be. ANDONI GARCIA i dont like when people say you know when they are in the middle of telling you something to me it g... DALLY SALAD A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessaril... ROSALYNN CARTER It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going... SINCLAIR LEWIS There are some purists out there, who really go to sporting events for the love of the sport. Most p... JOE WEISS The problem for a lot of people is that they don't really know what they want. They have vague desir... JOHN C. PARKIN They want to do this, they want to help us, so we won't be out there in the street, and so they won'... CRYSTAL MOORE I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor j... A. S. BYATT They want to make a difference. They just have to be told how. SHANNON BABB Most people do not really want others to have freedom of speech, they just want others to be given t... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody ... MARK TWAIN I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody... MARK TWAIN People don’t keep journals for themselves. They keep them for other people, like a secret they don... MARILYN MANSON Dont GiVe UP iF U StIll WaNna TrY* DonT WIpE YOUR TeARS IF YOU StiLL WANT TO Cry DON'T SET... TRENT REZNOR I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it's poetry or ... TAYLOR SWIFT Most people go in bookshops and have no idea what they want to buy. Somehow, the books sit there, al... CECELIA AHERN To be honest, I'm not as goal oriented and ambitious as I once was. CHANTAL KREVIAZUK O yes youwl want to think on that you dont want your mouf to walk you where your feet dont want to g... RUSSELL HOBAN I don't want to know that you don't want me. I don't want to know what you do without me. I don't wa... SARA QUIN You have to decide what you want first of all. The problem with so many people is that they do not k... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA People want to know more about me. They want to know who I am. DAVID OTUNGA Lots of people want to have written; they don't want to write. In other words, they want to see ... ELIZABETH GEORGE If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at s... CAMILLE PAGLIA Some people say, "Give the customers what they want." But that's not my approach. Out job is to figu... WALTER ISAACSON On the whole, lying is a cheerful affair. Embellishments are intended to give pleasure. People long ... ISABEL FONSECA It's nice when people say they want to raise money for you. Because it was brought to us by the writ... DAVID GREENE If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers. IRVIN S. COBB People are wanting a different connection with their food. They want not only to do the right thing,... KRISTINE GREIBER I feel like the writers that I'm drawn to, the writers that I really cling to, are the writers w... SAM SHEPARD There is a sort of creative purity in an independent film, in the passion of the director, the passi... AMY IRVING
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FORBES Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black. JAMES A. BALDWIN The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's ... JAMES A. BALDWIN Long before I fell in love with writing, I fell in love with reading. Sometimes, honestly, I feel li... JAMES A. MOORE Painful experiences are like scars in our minds. Some have healed and been forgotten. Others are the... JAMES A. MURPHY I am a poor hater. JAMES A. GARFIELD The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other. JAMES A. GARFIELD A man needs selfacceptance
or he can't live with himself; he needs selfcriticism
or others can't li... JAMES A. PIKE These divestitures ensure that consumers of milk, an American staple, continue to get the benefits o... CHARLES A. JAMES Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.... JAMES A. GARFIELD He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation JAMES A. GARFIELD Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is... JAMES A. GARFIELD The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think. JAMES A. GARFIELD A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil JAMES A. GARFIELD Suicide is not a remedy. JAMES A. GARFIELD A law is not a law without coercion behind it. JAMES A. GARFIELD Whosoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerc... JAMES A. GARFIELD Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce. JAMES A. GARFIELD Ideas control the world. JAMES A. GARFIELD This merger would give General Dynamics a permanent monopoly in nuclear submarines and would substan... CHARLES A. JAMES Thoughts turn to other's just a little more this time of year. Days grow shorter and memories grow l... JAMES A. MURPHY For those scientists who take it seriously, Darwinian evolution has functioned more as a philosophic... JAMES A. SHAPIRO I know,” said Peter. “Perhaps better than anyone. But you can’t stay a child forever. To choos... JAMES A. OWEN Kids are naturally curious about the world around them. Everything is fascinating and holds their at... JAMES A. MURPHY Music is the language of all. It tames the savage beast and allows us to get over heartbreak. It hel... JAMES A. MURPHY Faith is about going through hell, coming out with some scars, and becoming a wiser person from the ... JAMES A. MURPHY THE RETURN OF THE REPRESSED: RELIVING DISSOCIATED EXPERIENCES The reexperiencing of previ... JAMES A. CHU Good times are a reminder and a reward for dealing with the difficult and challenging times we all g... JAMES A. MURPHY This merger would create a monopoly in those areas where cable television is not available, thereby ... CHARLES A. JAMES If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it. JAMES A. GARFIELD Seeking excellence means choosing to forge your own sword to cut through the limitations of your lif... JAMES A. MURPHY Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, ... JAMES A. BALDWIN To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be pr... JAMES A. BALDWIN Most of us go through each day looking for what we saw yesterday And, not surprisingly, that is what... JAMES A. KITCHENS The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no rem... JAMES A. GARFIELD It ain't bragging if you've done it. There's nothing wrong with being proud of doing something well.... JAMES A. OWEN Life is this simple ~ birth, eat, drink, play, explore, and relate to family and friends; be happy a... JAMES A. MURPHY It has occurred to me that the thing you have, that all men have enough of, is perhaps the thing tha... JAMES A. GARFIELD The difficulties in diagnosing DID result primarily from lack of education among clinicians about di... JAMES A. CHU