Satyajit Ray
Related OCTAVIA E. BUTLER I can't write things. I'm embarrassed all the time about that, particularly if people don... DANNEL MALLOY SUZANNE COLLINS BILLY COLLINS I kind of just write what I like to write. I'm thankful that readers of different ages seem to c... GENE LUEN YANG DORIS LESSING LIBBA BRAY A. S. BYATT I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art. BALTHUS BRIE LARSON URSULA K. LE GUIN RAINBOW ROWELL RAY CHARLES CAROL BURNETT AARON SORKIN PAUL THEROUX BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN JOHN IRVING ALEKSANDAR HEMON Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don&#... ABBAS KIAROSTAMI I'm an artist. Artists don't need permission to work. Regardless of whether I'm acting o... CHADWICK BOSEMAN ALICE MUNRO I don't do 'political correctness,' whatever that means. I write the stories I want to w... PAUL S. KEMP I don't project no image. I just act like myself. I write about how I feel, the emotional stage ... WAKA FLOCKA FLAME CHRIS WARE With relationships, I've been through a lot of different situations with different people, and I... KAT DAHLIA CANDACE BUSHNELL ASHTON KUTCHER ANN HOOD I don't buy into the idea that an Irish writer should write about Ireland, or a gay writer shoul... JOHN BOYNE I'm not an extremely prolific writer. I don't write songs all the time. BILLY BURKE I don't work in a straight line. I don't write with an outline. I write where I can see thin... DIANA GALBADON LIAM GALLAGHER I'm a big eater. I mean, a lot of my stand-up is about food, and you write about what you know, ... JIM GAFFIGAN I'm actually writing history. It isn't what you'd call big history. I don't write ab... LOUIS L'AMOUR DAN SAVAGE I'm not a hustler. I don't pitch songs. I don't ask people to write with me. It's no... CHRIS STAPLETON GEOFFREY S. FLETCHER STEVE BUSCEMI I don't know why sportswriters always have to write bad things about Joaquin Andujar. JOAQUIN ANDUJAR PETER JENNINGS I write about people in small towns; I don't write about people living in big cities. My kind of... LEE SMITH ADELE I'm such an antsy type of person. I can't write in a room without other people around. I wri... PAUL HAGGIS JODI PICOULT CHARLI XCX JOHN HUGHES I'm a city boy. I grew up in a big city, in Birmingham, and I want to write about a city. It'... MARK BILLINGHAM SOPHIE KINSELLA MIRANDA JULY I'm excited and terrified to write something new. I won't be writing about suburbia. MARC CHERRY I'm pretty obsessive-compulsive, and I'm very fast. I tend to not write for a long period of... ADAM RAPP I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story. ZOEY DEUTCH HARUKI MURAKAMI LARRY DAVID GEORGE LUCAS MARTHA GELLHORN I don't sit down and say I'm going to write a song about this or that. They are never mapped... JOHN DARNIELLE I write about true-life type things. KAREN KINGSBURY CECELIA AHERN I write every day. I don't have a writing schedule. I write when I feel like it. Fortunately, I ... EVE BUNTING While I'm writing, I'm also the first reader, and I want to write a book where I'm excit... HAKAN NESSER As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write... SAMUEL BARBER EL DEBARGE PATRICK ROTHFUSS ALICE MUNRO EDMUND WHITE I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require. GARRY WILLS FRIDA KAHLO I don't sit down to write a funny story. Every single thing I sit down to write is meant to be s... LORRIE MOORE I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'... ERIC BROWN Everything that I write is sort of autobiographical, and I don't know that I'm getting bette... KRIS KRISTOFFERSON I like to write about the things I care about. It's no fun to sing about things you don't li... ESTELLE FANTA SWARAY ED SHEERAN BRYCE COURTENAY JOHN HUGHES When something irritates me, I don't go home and write; I just don't do that. KERRY KING A. N. WILSON JACKIE COLLINS KRISTIN ARMSTRONG PHILIP YANCEY JOHN TRUDELL MARY KARR CAMILA CABELLO ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER HARLAN COBEN Still to this day, I don't know when I write something whether it's good or not. WATT KEY To be honest with you, I don't male-bash. I don't believe in male-bashing. I write about thi... CHERRELLE KAZUO ISHIGURO When I write music, I know a lot of artists like Taylor Swift or Ed Sheeran tend to write from perso... CHRISTINA GRIMMIE BETH HENLEY CHARLES BUKOWSKI I'm not sure there are too many people who write what I write. L. E. MODESITT, JR. ABRAHAM A. RIBICOFF You’re too much”, he said. “You talk too much, love too much, feel too much. And I don’t kno... A BOOK I'LL NEVER WRITE I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write ... BRUCE VILANCH LANA DEL REY Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. ... KATE ATKINSON I would get up at 3 in the morning and write. Or sometimes I would write at midnight. Or I would wri... BEBE MOORE CAMPBELL CHINUA ACHEBE
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I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write ab... 
I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents. 
I don't write for an auditorium full of people. I don't write for the microphone; I write fo... 
I don't write well when I'm sitting there sweating about every single phrase. 
I'm one of those people who has to write. If I don't write, I feel itchy and depressed and c... 
I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can ... 
I think that I write about stuff that others don't write about. I don't have a bunch of love... 
I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer. 
I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story w... 
I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's... 
What I like to write about is stuff I know. I don't think I could write a novel. I don't thi... 
I'm crazy about 'Breaking Bad,' but I wouldn't know how to write an episode of it. 
People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for... 
I don't write demographically. I don't write a song to reach these people or those people. 
I don't read anything electronically. I don't write electronically, either - except e-mails ... 
I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how t... 
I never start out with any kind of connecting theme or plan. Everything just falls the way it falls.... 
I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story ... 
I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it... 
I don't read the magazines that make things up about people. I know what the truth is. I don'... 
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 know what any of my songs are about. I don't sit down to write about anything. They&... 
I don't write about my life in my column. 
I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut. 
I never had any master plan about directing, and I don't really write. 
I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America. 
I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what... 
Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the mu... 
I am very spontaneous when I write; it kind of just comes out. I never think about what I'm goin... 
I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I'm done is write anoth... 
When I wrote my first book, 'The Tennis Party', my overriding concern was that I didn't ... 
When I write, I wear earplugs. I don't want to be self-conscious. I don't want to be thinkin... 
George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don&#... 
I don't write shows with dialogue where actors have to memorize dialogue. I write the scenes whe... 
Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer. 
I didn't write. I just wandered about. 
Don't force yourself to write. Some people can write a novel in a few months, whereas for others... 
When I write songs, when I sing songs, I don't have anybody in mind. I'm just trying to expr... 
I write what I don't know. It's way more interesting. 
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I hate writing. I almost never write. I write against deadlines. And when I'm teaching, I'm ... 
I don't know how to write love letters. 
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People say I don't write books, I make Christmas presents. 
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I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novel... 
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When I write, I try to represent the ordinary person in the pew, which means that, ironically, I'... 
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Most of the people I write about I'm still in touch with, so I would be loath to make up stuff a... 
A lot of the music I write is about love. Sometimes I won't understand how I am feeling until I ... 
As a composer at a point where I can absolutely pick and choose what I want to do, I don't want ... 
What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the... 
Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to w... 
I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays. 
I don't write so much now. I'm getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia. 
You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know a... 
A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New Y... 
Many writers can't make a living. So to be able to teach how to write is valuable to them. But I... 
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My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during ... 
Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory. 
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It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid. 
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You got to be willing to walk in a storm. That's what I tell people all the time. 
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Whatever it is you want to do, take a job in that field. You will learn by experience and, slow and ... 
To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society. 
Divinity means unfolding and expressing life in new ways. Divinity means radiating peace, bliss and ... 
In reality, we live in everyone. I live in you. You live in me. There is no gap, no distance. We all... 
In reality, we live in every one. Deep down there is a rose in every heart. 
If we look at the life cycle of technologies, we see an early period of over-enthusiasm, then a '... 
The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors... 
You know, before I would think, my cab driver hates me. Now I think my limo driver hates me. 
Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?. 
Bottom line, your body is a temple, and you have to treat it that way. That's how God designed i... 
Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else. 
Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left. 
Children are poor men's riches. 
Now the wren has gone to roost and the sky is turnin' gold
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In business for yourself, not by yourself. 
Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary. 
Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting? 
If I play my best, I can win anywhere in the world against anybody. 
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than love. Kindness is good will. Kind... 
I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or... 
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes. 
I never thought I would get to have my own action figure. 