George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Book Quotes, Writing Quotes

You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.

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Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.

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There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I were the only patient reader, for my aim is merely self-expression.

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I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.

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Writing is the easiest thing in the world.... Just try it sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and a board on my knees and I scribble away.

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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?

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Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.

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Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?

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I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.

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What women say to lovers, you'll agree, One writes on running water or on air.

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But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality.

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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

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We really try to make sure that the band writes the songs, not just one person.

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I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.

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I doubt I'll be singing forever, because at some point people aren't going to want to hear my music, and I hope that I'll still get the opportunity to write songs.

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I'm writing novels because I found something I love because I tried it. Don't be afraid to shake it up.

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I have not always been wrong. History will bear me out, particularly as I shall write that history myself.

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I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.

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Howbeit, though no scholar, I am not one of those who misuse the English speech, and, being foolishly led by the hasty custom of scriveners and printers to write the letters "T" and "H" joined together, which resembleth a "Y," do incontinently jump to the conclusion the THE is pronounced "Ye,"--the like of which I never heard in all England.

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I wanted to write some lyrics that had some meaning to them, lyrics that were meaningful to me and hopefully people can take something from that.

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