When I wrote 'The Pregnant Widow' three or four years ago, I tried to reread my first novel, 'The Rachel Papers,' because their young heroes are the same age. I couldn't finish it. It seemed to me so technically slapdash and weak.
Martin Amis
I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.
I don't like slapdash careless prose, and if I saw myself doing it, I would give up writing altogether.
The slapdash way producers used to assemble a show seems a little unbelievable when we talk about them now.
When he brought it to me four years ago, Rodney King had just arrived, I was involved in the clean-up of L.A. and I guess it was part of my experience.
Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It's been a marvelous and important experience.
Three or four years ago, I got really caught up in the movies people were making, the opportunities they were getting, and I was looking at them with bitterness.
I don't reread my books.
Graham Swift
I don't reread my books after they're published, because it's agony.
Laurie Halse Anderson
When I love a novel I've read, I want to reread it - in part, to see how it was constructed.
I love books. I want to read them, and I want to own them so they're always available to be reread.
Writers want to be reread. They want to think that their words don't just flash by but deserve some reflection.
I think we just knew that we had a movie when Rachel walked in the room.
If there's one person in the world with whom a chemistry read is unnecessary, it's Rachel McAdams.
I'm not a Rachel Dolezal. I don't fake tan; I don't have the cornrows, I don't misappropriate. I just want to be Beyonce.
I was a campaign widow.
Laura Moser
Widow. The word consumes itself.
Sylvia Plath
I get lonely when I'm a Playstation widow.
Ashley Judd
It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.
A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
Being a rock widow is not my job, so I would hire people to do it for me.
I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
Toni Morrison
I completed my first novel when I was 19 years old.
Danielle Steel
I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old.
Kevin J. Anderson
My first novel, 'Sacrifice,' was set on the Shetland Islands.
I wrote my first novel when my daughter was about six months old.
I was twenty-seven when I came up with the idea for my first novel.
I'm drowning in papers.
Wislawa Szymborska
I don't read the papers or watch TV.
Luis Suarez
I only know what I read in the papers.
Pat Nixon
I still like the physicality of papers.
David Muir
Sunday afternoon is for papers and writing.
Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.
I love reading other people's papers on the Tube.
I love being pregnant!
Soleil Moon Frye
I loved being pregnant.
Bryce Dallas Howard
Oh, I'm pregnant on 'Girls.'
Gaby Hoffmann
I'm not a great pregnant woman.
Melissa McCarthy
You can't be partially pregnant.
I love being pregnant in general.
I didn't binge when I was pregnant.
I seemed to have been born reading.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
I took my writing seriously, and it seemed to pay off.
Samuel R. Delany
The longer we were in it, the smaller it seemed to get.
William Beebe
I remember when the idea of living to be 40 seemed absurd.
Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.
Every worldview I chose, it seemed, edged me toward belief.
Human nature is weak.
Anthony Fauci
I'm so weak at saying no.
Richard Burton
You know I'm weak on good looks.
Rachel Lambert Mellon
My body gets weak without truth.
Andrei Platonov
I consider myself a little weak.
Strong women only marry weak men.
A lot of women feel ashamed to be weak.
Nice guys finish last.
Leo Durocher
Last guys don't finish nice.
Saul Alinsky
I start a picture and I finish it.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
To finish first you must first finish.
Rick Mears
Eventually, I want to finish my degree.
I'd like to finish my career as a Brave.
Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.
A well-aimed spear is worth three.
Tad Williams
Most books are three-thirds rubbish.
Lionel Shriver
My heart beats in three-quarter time.
Eric Kandel
I am only six foot three, by the way.
L'Wren Scott
I was performing from the age of three.
I would like to have three or four kids.
I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
I wrote the worst novel ever.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
We became the songs we wrote.
Barry Mann
I lived to write, and wrote to live.
Samuel Rogers
I wrote my thesis on welfare policy.
Bob McDonnell
I've written pilots. I wrote a movie.
I came up with a story and I wrote it.
I wrote a fan e-mail to Michael Chabon.
Trust one who has tried.
Virgil
Let us be tried by our actions.
John N. Mitchell
I have tried so hard to do right.
Grover Cleveland
I've tried to let the work I do speak.
I tried. But not everybody thought so.
I tried to learn the violin for a while.
A novel is not a rant.
Rachel Kushner
A novel is about people.
Judy Blume
Novel writing wrecks homes.
C. S. Forester
I wrote the worst novel ever.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
I've never abandoned the novel.
Novel writing is solitary work.
'Lagoon' is an ambitious novel.
Love has no age.
Gail Porter
Youth has no age.
Pablo Picasso
Age is irrelevant.
Frances Hesselbein
I don't mind my age.
Heather Mills
Age is not our fault.
Old age is a shipwreck.
People dance at any age.
Go West, young man.
Aaron Burr
Go west, young man.
Horace Greeley
Live fast, die young.
Ed Westwick
I'm just a young kid.
Tory Lanez
I feel young every day.
Only the young die good.
I'm a chava, a young one.
Tech never comes back the same.
Samuel J. Palmisano
We never do the same set twice.
David Bryan
Boys and girls are not the same.
Tucker Carlson
The world remains ever the same.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I never wear the same shoe twice.
Our songs all carry the same way.
I don't write the same book twice.
Lebanon first.
Saad Hariri
I'm a mom first.
Mindy McCready
I'm a father first.
Pilou Asbaek
Jazz was my first love.
Frankie Valli
Music is my first love.
Music is my first love.
I'm a songwriter first.
It's my show.
Knute Rockne
It's nice to win.
Bess Truman
It's an odd world.
Timothy Spall
Use it or lose it.
Jimmy Connors
It's wrong to kill.
It's a sin to swear.
It's tough being me.