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Joseph Wambaugh Quotes

The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore.

Joseph Wambaugh

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: January 22, 1937

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Real Over Cop Onion Knew Made

We are watching things happen with one degree changes in ocean temperature that we thought wouldn't happen until there were two or three degree changes in ocean temperature. These are facts.

Ocean Facts Thought Things Happen

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.

Life Children Fancy Order Own Than

I talk, watch TV, spout opinions, schmooze, negotiate, talk some more, play games, and have a little cocktail.

Opinions Play Games Talk More Watch

Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time.

Time World Say Everything Out Kids

I've always been trying to do as little as possible, and I'm getting better at it all the time.

Time Better Getting Better Trying

I have spent years as a leadership coach to the very wealthy and have been able to get behind the eyes of some of the world's best, studying the minute details of what makes a person great.

Robin S. Sharma

Leadership Eyes Great Best World

I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.

Michael Morpurgo

Write Up Fiction Things Make

I'm not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.

Yourself Writing Easy You Why Hard

The reality for us in America is that we will never get out of debt with more than 15 million people out of work.

Debbie Stabenow

Work People Reality America Never

When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away from other people, and my writing sucked. Now I have a laptop; I can do the most tedious part of my job in a public place.

Chuck Palahniuk

Alone Time Job People Me Writing

On the surface I look fragile and insecure; you have to know me very well.

Me You Look Know Fragile Well

In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.

I Am Gravity Excitement Fabric Poem

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