Teju Cole
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LAINIE KAZAN I don't know what makes a writer's voice. It's dozens of things. There are people who wr... PAULA FOX IVANA TRUMP WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. ... PATRICIA MACLACHLAN JACKIE COLLINS BARRY EISLER I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it... W. P. KINSELLA ASHTON KUTCHER It's not a very popular subject amongst my audience, who are by nature more internationalist, bu... BILLY BRAGG STING JULIA QUINN HELENA BONHAM CARTER One of the biggest challenges of writing for middle-grade or even young-adult readers is that I don&... ALANE FERGUSON I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm d... UMBERTO ECO A. S. BYATT KRISTEN STEWART LIBBA BRAY ALBERT BROOKS ED SHEERAN When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going... TEA OBREHT PATRICK ROTHFUSS ALAN BENNETT CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE NOAM CHOMSKY RAY BRADBURY CAROL BURNETT I wouldn't wish any specific thing for any specific person - it's none of my business. But t... MIKE ROWE BRITTANY SNOW You know, I don't watch television! Sorry! I actually don't even have a television. I don... BROOKE SMITH I don't know who made the first Aquaman joke. I'm sure it was comics readers; maybe we all d... GEOFF JOHNS Still to this day, I don't know when I write something whether it's good or not. WATT KEY I know some children's writers write for specific children, or for the children they once were, ... QUENTIN BLAKE There's a crazy amount of goodwill, and I don't know where it came from, and I don't und... FEIST BARBARA MANDRELL I don't know anyone male or female who can quote-unquote have it all. It's a made-up idea. M... CALLIE KHOURI I'm a shy person. I don't know if it's in my DNA to share with the world. LISA BONET TAMORA PIERCE I would say that in my black readership, more of my readers tolerate the horror aspect of my work, y... TANANARIVE DUE I write the occasional entry for the 'Times' Theatre blog, especially when I'm in London... BEN BRANTLEY I don't have a bunch of mates. I don't have a man cave. My wife and I, we are each other'... CORBIN BERNSEN MIRANDA KERR BRIAN SELZNICK DYLAN MORAN HILARY MANTEL ELIZABETH GILBERT When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I t... ALBERTO MORAVIA I don't want to ever write a book that seems like it's pandering to younger people or talkin... RANSOM RIGGS I don't watch something just because it's a specific genre. DREW ROY JESSICA BIEL And I don't have any specific steps to take because I don't start the same way every time. B... BRUCE NAUMAN MAEVE BINCHY The business of music. You know, it's an oxymoron in a sense. It's like the two things. Alth... KELIS FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR. DAVID JOHANSEN It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't kn... ADAM GARCIA JAY-Z I don't feel unlucky in love anymore, and it's not all emo. It's a scary place to be in ... JENNY LEWIS RAIN The secret of it is to read what you've got in front of you. Don't, if you suspect that some... HUMPHREY LYTTELTON CANDACE BUSHNELL TANITH LEE FRANK OCEAN CYNTHIA OZICK AARON SORKIN CHELSEA HANDLER I don't really have a metaphor for how I write, but it kinda feels like chipping away at a big d... BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY When I write a story, I have no idea what I'm doing. All I know is that I want to share somethin... ETGAR KERET I am a shy person, basically. I don't think I can take my shirt off in front of so many people. ... MAHESH BABU KEVIN HART TOM PETERS CHINUA ACHEBE DAVID A. ADLER I do write by hand. I just think - I don't know, it's a physical thing for me. It's a bo... ELIZABETH STROUT MEGAN FOX When you're a guest star on a movie or a TV show, I always say it's like being invited to a ... ATO ESSANDOH My mother's a psychologist, my stepfather's a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and... ZACH BRAFF What cracks me up is people who think I don't take baseball seriously. It's the most importa... BRADY ANDERSON RACHAEL TAYLOR So I don't really have much rivalry, or if there is any, I don't really know anything about ... EMILY BLUNT I don't know if it's embarrassing, but I have a lot of girl Christian music. TONY OLLER YAEL NAIM WALTER MOSLEY I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tel... LEE DANIELS
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NATALIE COLE One of these days, I'd like to put together a revue of all my music, which would probably turn i... NATALIE COLE I love what I do so much. I just keep going. Not much can bring me down. NATALIE COLE I don't think that my parents even imagined that I would be exposed to drugs. In those days, for... NATALIE COLE A lot of people want to donate a kidney, but they're not in a position to because they have heal... NATALIE COLE I never got to make that transition from little girl to young woman... and that really screws you up... NATALIE COLE I'm an ordinary person under extraordinary circumstances. NATALIE COLE God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, an... NATALIE COLE I think that I am a walking testimony to you can have scars. You can go through turbulent times and ... NATALIE COLE When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is... NATALIE COLE I think people hear the warmth in my voice and the friendliness, and they think: 'Oh, she must b... NATALIE COLE I have been to hell and back. I have seen the edge. I have seen the dark side of life. NATALIE COLE Life is such a gift, I just say thank you all day. NATALIE COLE COLE SWINDELL COLE SWINDELL J. COLE I was of the type who gets bullied rather than the one who does the bullying, which I'm glad abo... LILY COLE There has been a fairly marked recovery in retail demand that has created a slightly greater lift in... ALAN COLE There are other kitchens running locally, but you know there are lots of folks who may not get the r... ALAN COLE We got an e-mail before we got here and the Red Cross needs 300,000 meals a day for 90 days and poss... ALAN COLE We had a lot of trouble at the Grove and the guys stayed up all night getting the cars ready to come... ALAN COLE I saw Keith there at the end so I guess he was pretty close. Charlie gives us real good stuff and I ... ALAN COLE I've been coming here a long time trying to win one of these fair races. It's real nice to finally g... ALAN COLE This was a goal of mine for a long time. To come over here and win a Fair race. My owner gives us wh... ALAN COLE COLE SWINDELL COLE SWINDELL Yes, I've already done a couple of guest voices. GARY COLE There is no handbook about how a career is going to go. GARY COLE I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going. GARY COLE I was a little nervous coming in mostly because my first scene was with Martin Sheen, who I'm a ... GARY COLE If someone comes up to me, 90 percent of the time it's about Office Space. GARY COLE I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the... GARY COLE A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good. GARY COLE Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera s... GARY COLE I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem. GARY COLE I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San F... GARY COLE I still like to listen to the people that I came of age on. GARY COLE Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've d... GARY COLE I don't think anyone sets out to do something bad, it's just that it's very difficult. GARY COLE I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway. GARY COLE Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things. GARY COLE I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though. GARY COLE You need someone to tell you how to do things like hitting your marks, or driving a car so it looks ... GARY COLE When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people. GARY COLE I was initially a leading man, but only on television. 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ADAM COLE COLE PORTER I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn't underst... JUAN COLE You can't help but be in a good mood around Blake Shelton. I felt like I always knew him even th... COLE VOSBURY KRESLEY COLE KRESLEY COLE ...our souls may be consumed by shadows, but that doesn't mean we have to behave as monsters. EMM COLE KRESLEY COLE COLE PORTER K.C. COLE COLE PORTER COLE PORTER I'd love kids. I'm obsessed with babies. Of course I've thought about baby names. A mill... CHERYL COLE J. COLE We had some wonderful people raising us, but they still weren't our parents. As you get older, i... NATALIE COLE My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture. NATALIE COLE J. COLE PAULA COLE An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied soc... JUAN COLE I believe in soulmates, yes, but I believe you also have to work at love. 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There's no such thing as a perfect person, so it makes no sense to write a perfect person. I don... 
War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other... 
One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry. 
When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write. 
Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the mu... 
When you pick up a book, everyone knows it's imaginary. You don't have to pretend it's n... 
I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand peop... 
I don't set out to transmit a message. I don't write with a political point of view. There a... 
In each of my homes, I have a leopard room. I don't know why, but I do. It's like my lounge ... 
Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until... 
I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't k... 
What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it'... 
I don't read the magazines that make things up about people. I know what the truth is. I don'... 
That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't... 
I have a lot of teenage readers and readers in their early twenties. My writing style appeals to the... 
Famous people come up to me, but I don't know who they are because my sight is so bad. It's ... 
I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. P... 
I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a s... 
I'm one of those people who has to write. If I don't write, I feel itchy and depressed and c... 
I'm a member of the Academy, but I don't know who all the other Academy members are. It'... 
I've never dated anyone in Hollywood - or anyone famous, for that matter. I don't know that ... 
I write what I don't know. It's way more interesting. 
I can't complain that I've had a public all through my writing life, but people don't qu... 
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I don't know if I officially proofread my father's book, but I read it. I did get some conce... 
You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers ... 
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I have to shave every day. If I don't, it's sort of like going to bed without brushing your ... 
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I think the perception of me can be, you know, confused. But that's only because people only see... 
A lot of people who don't write for kids think it's easy, because they think kids aren't... 
I draw hundreds and hundreds of pictures of sort of gnarly looking men, so I don't know what tha... 
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I'm not a perfect person who doesn't mess up, eat bad, not work out - I do all those things.... 
I once tried to write a novel about revenge. It's the only book I didn't finish. I couldn... 
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I don't know why I'm alive but I know there's a reason for it. 
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I don't get my inspiration from a specific source. It's more like if you listen to a good tu... 
I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it... 
It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm ... 
I think we all change each other's paths. I don't know which law idea that is in physics, bu... 
I don't like to read contemporary fiction while writing - I need a sense of isolation, a kind of... 
The properties of people and the properties of character have almost nothing to do with each other. ... 
I'm a devilish kind of person, but I embrace it. I don't try to fight it. It's proven ve... 
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I think, first of all, I don't think people understand Ice Cube's body of work. Ice Cube is ... 
Business book writing for me is when some set of ideas gets stuck in my mind, I write a book about i... 
Many writers can't make a living. So to be able to teach how to write is valuable to them. But I... 
In my office I have a sign that says, 'Don't think. Just write!' and that's how I wo... 
I don't read my own press, so I don't know what's being reported on a daily basis - I on... 
Sometimes when Australians go overseas, it's as though the 'Aussie' is refined out of th... 
When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion tha... 
I don't ever know where I'm going. Because one of the wonderful things about writing, which ... 
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In countries with a properly functioning legal system, the mob continues to exist, but it is rarely ... 
I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listen... 
If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My mo... 
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Me and Luke are fraternity brothers. Luke Bryan was already in Nashville when I got to college. He h... 
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Being a big Braves fan, Turner Field would be cool to play a show at. 
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anythi... 
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I think it's important to find the little things in everyday life that make you happy. 
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You said you'd give me half an hour!'