I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.
Jeffery Deaver
WriteSingleBeginWordEightProse
Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.
Thelma Ritter
NobodyWordEverPoliteInvented
My mother was a member of the Cape Coloured community. 'Coloured' is the South African word for the half-caste community that was a by-product of the early contact between black and white.
Peter Abrahams
MotherBlack And WhiteCommunityWord
A trillion dollars spent, 2,000 American lives lost - Afghanistan is the longest war in American history. But you don't hear a word about it.
Michael Baumgartner
HistoryWarAmericanYouLostWord
When I sing, it's just... comfort is a stupid word, but it is.
Sarah McLachlan
StupidComfortSingJustWord
You power through it word by word, line by line.
Sean Hayes
PowerYouLineThroughWord
I want to block some common misunderstandings about 'understanding': In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word 'understanding.'
John Searle
UnderstandingWantFancyCommonWord
I don't like the word 'feminist.' I don't like the word 'ambitious.' I do like the word 'anti-establishment.'
Rei Kawakubo
AmbitiousLikeWordFeminist
The law is God's first word; the gospel is God's final word.
Tullian Tchividjian
GodLawFirstFinalGospelWord
Apple took the edge off the word 'computer.'
Steve Jobs
AppleEdgeOffComputerWordTook
I have had periods when I've overused a word, 'candent' being one example, but I'm trying not to do that any more.
Neal Asher
TryingMoreBeingExampleWordAny
Love is a very big word.
Tobias Menzies
LoveLove IsBigWordVery
Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word.'
Stan Brakhage
BeginningWorldAliveMovementWord
Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.
Margot Fonteyn
GeniusMagicPointWholeWord
I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense.
Norman MacCaig
BookCareFirstNaturalSenseWord
Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!
Steve Martin
FunnyBoyEverythingDifferentWord
I don't care about the word 'pop'. The Beatles were pop; it's just what's popular.
Jake Bugg
CareBeatlesJustPopWordPopular
I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.
Nora Roberts
LoveThinkYouWriteWellWord
I didn't know what the word 'genre' meant till I was twenty years old.
Trombone Shorty
KnowOldYearsTwentyWordGenre
Mum's the word.
George Colman
WordMum
I've learned with Donald Trump - take him at his word.
Richard Burr
Donald TrumpHimTakeWordLearned
I hate the word 'hippy.'
Robert Carlyle
HateWordHippy
I want to create. I think that's the one word I can grow on.
Israel Broussard
ThinkGrowI CanCreateWantWord
I hate this word 'graphic novel.' It is a term publishing houses have created for the bourgeois so they wouldn't be ashamed of buying comics... I'm not a graphic novelist. I am a cartoonist and I make comics and I am very happy about it.
Marjane Satrapi
HateI AmHappyAshamedBuyingWord
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