All Quotes

I can write anywhere that's quiet. I have a study in my apartment, but I often work in the kitchen of a house that we rent in the country.
‐‐ Jonathan Galassi

I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
‐‐ Zane Grey

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
‐‐ A. J. Liebling

I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.
‐‐ Judith Guest

I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.
‐‐ Ann Patchett

I can write, He floated up to the ceiling, and a baby rabbit came out of his pocket, grew wings, and flew away. And you will believe that it really happened. That's magic, isn't it?
‐‐ Humphrey Carpenter

I can write most places. I particularly like writing on trains. Being between places is quite liberating, and looking out of the window, watching a procession of landscapes and random-ish objects, is very good for stories.
‐‐ Susanna Clarke

I can write music but I'm not much for words.
‐‐ Jim Diamond

I can write pretty much anywhere.
‐‐ David Mitchell

I can write pretty much anywhere if you give me time and some quiet. The home is not usually the best place because I have four children. It's usually pandemonium around here!
‐‐ Harlan Coben

I can write songs, I've had songs in movies, but I can't compose film scores, you know?
‐‐ Brian Wilson

I can write ten or twelve screenplays in the time it takes me to write one novel. This allows me to offload all of my stories. But it's also not as creatively fulfilling.
‐‐ Benjamin Percy

I can write two scripts concurrently, but I usually prefer to do one at a time. However, I also usually have 5 or 6 story ideas that are percolating in my head at any one time, so it can get a little crowded in there.
‐‐ Michael Arndt

I can write with absolutely perfect penmanship with my feet. If I broke both my arms, I could still write a girl a love letter using just my toes.
‐‐ Ian Somerhalder

I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.
‐‐ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I can zero in on subtle things because I'm holding the camera.
‐‐ Patrice Leconte

I cancel going out if my hair doesn't look good.
‐‐ Brad Goreski

I canceled a show once to be with someone that I loved.
‐‐ Ricky Martin

I canceled the Russian shows because, from the days of the first Dire Straits album, I've supported Amnesty International. It's not a good thing to read about people being jailed for no reason, so I raised my hand and made a small objection. It was good to do - but where do you stop?
‐‐ Mark Knopfler

I cannot abide anyone treating another human being like a piece of dirt, whatever the context.
‐‐ Jo Brand

I cannot abide being bored.
‐‐ Felix Dennis

I cannot abide stupidity, in myself or in others.
‐‐ Ginger Rogers

I cannot absorb living in a world where I have an Oscar for best actress and Denzel doesn't have one for best actor.
‐‐ Julia Roberts

I cannot accept a divide between Malagasy people and a civil war.
‐‐ Andry Rajoelina

I cannot accept fraud.
‐‐ Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.
‐‐ Louis Agassiz

I cannot afford to watch Fox News.
‐‐ Gil Scott-Heron

I cannot allow state government to continue to be consumed by this game of political 'gotcha.'
‐‐ Ernie Fletcher

I cannot always write at the same time, in the same place. I work, travel and have a vigorous family life. If I'm stranded in an airport lobby - I write. If I have to wait in a doctor's office - I write. If I have a morning or evening to myself - I write.
‐‐ Carmen Agra Deedy

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.
‐‐ Philip Roth

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion.
‐‐ Lillian Hellman

I cannot and will not play something if I still have questions. I feel like I am being fraudulent.
‐‐ Riley Keough

I cannot and will not raise money on Benghazi. I also advise my colleagues to follow suit.
‐‐ Trey Gowdy

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.
‐‐ Martin Luther

I cannot approach someone; I lack the confidence when it comes to the guy I desire. I'm very good when it comes to matchmaking and hooking others up. But I can't help my own cause.
‐‐ Kangana Ranaut

I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read the accounts of several travellers, and in many cases the devotional rhapsodies - the ecstacies of awe and reverence - in which they indulge, strike me as forced and affected.
‐‐ Bayard Taylor

I cannot avoid forgiving everybody that threw a brick at me during my various campaigns, so I think it's important for all of us to bury that and say, 'OK, we need to look forward' - we've got to move forward from 'never Trump' to 'never Hillary.'
‐‐ Bill Flores

I cannot be a character in a bad movie. I can't be.
‐‐ Robert McKee

I cannot be a placard waver for every campaign; that's why I have mostly kept quiet about gay marriage.
‐‐ Clare Balding

I cannot be alone in being pretty nauseated by Red Nose Day, or at least its television manifestation. Do I think that wretchedly poor children in Africa should get food and life-saving drugs? Of course. Do I want to be hectored into contributing by celebrities who earn more in a 10-minute slot than many of these families get in a year? Nope.
‐‐ Simon Hoggart

I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses.
‐‐ Aaron McGruder

I cannot be Mary Hart - or even worse, Samantha Harris - and stand there with my hip out talking about Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes taking Suri to an art museum without making fun of it.
‐‐ Chelsea Handler

I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.
‐‐ Frances Burney

I cannot be separated from Rudy Giuliani. But I am also not Rudy Giuliani.
‐‐ Joe Lhota

I cannot be silent when facing these evils against women and children.
‐‐ Chen Guangcheng

I cannot be so bad when everybody is so fond of me.
‐‐ Clara Schumann

I cannot be understood in three minutes.
‐‐ Sidney Poitier

I cannot bear the responsibility for one drop of blood.
‐‐ Mohamed ElBaradei

I cannot believe how fine I am with being bald.
‐‐ Robin Roberts

I cannot believe how much I love my kid. It's a beautiful thing.
‐‐ Scott Baio