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I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

Quote by George W. Bush about americans, history, people

The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.

Quote by George W. Bush about law

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about mind

Bookstores see a book by a woman and they put it in the romance section. I write mainstream fiction about women.

Quote by Barbara Taylor Bradford about fiction, woman

Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.

Quote by Michael Caine about comedy, writing, contentment

Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.

Quote by Michael Caine about comedy, actors, life

You can write shorthand and still look at the guy you're talking to.

Quote by Michael Caine about talking, contentment

Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.

Quote by Orson Scott about writers

I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.

Quote by Orson Scott about writers

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

Quote by Orson Scott about motivation, contempt, admiration, writers, miracle

On a more practical level, what it takes to succeed is to be self-critical enough to learn from your errors, but confident enough (arrogant enough? ) to decide that what you've got is good enough to write and, having written, good enough to send...

Quote by Orson Scott about error, good, good luck, self-control, contentment

As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I could write about World War Two from a totally new place.

Quote by Michael Chabon about war, world

How was I to do that? If I wrote about them in the same language that I was using to write about Joe and Sammy, it would give the comics characters the same level of familiarity.

Quote by Michael Chabon about language

I wasn't involved, except to the degree that they sent me drafts of the script as the writer turned them in. They asked me at one point to write a memo about what I thought of it.

Quote by Michael Chabon about writers, thinking

That was the flash: I was going to write about comic book creators in the 1940s.

Quote by Michael Chabon

I knew I would never write an autobiography.

Quote by Catherine Deneuve

I'm lucky; people write scripts for me.

Quote by Catherine Deneuve about nation, people

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

Quote by Winston Churchill about history, past

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

Quote by Winston Churchill about history

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about glory, contempt, praise, books, man