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In 1957, I decided: write or perish.

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James Salter
American - Novelist
June 10, 1925 - June 19, 2015

The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write.

Grace Paley

Staying where you now are, you must perish; coming to Christ, you can but perish; coming to Christ, no one ever did perish; while you sit still and starve, there is bread enough and to spare in your Father's house. Will you return?

Samuel I. Prime

I don't think I consciously decided to write for the young adult audience; my subconscious decided for me.

Mark Frost

In 1957, with the arms race in full swing, the Department of Defense had decided it was just a matter of time before an airplane transporting an atomic bomb would crash on American soil, unleashing a radioactive disaster the likes of which the world had never seen.

Annie Jacobsen

If anyone e-mails you something "by George Carlin," there's a 99 percent chance I did not write it. I didn't write "Paradox Of Our Time." I didn't write "George Carlin On Aging." I didn't write a eulogy for my wife after she died. I didn't write the New Orleans thing. I didn't write "I Am A Bad American." None of them. You know what I've decided to do? I'm going to get a little cheap put-it-together-yourself website called NotMe.com.

George Carlin

Those who refused to respond to the new stimulus would perish. Adapt or perish.

Philip K. Dick

I have decided that maybe I want to write when I grow up. I just don't know what I would write.

Stephen Chbosky

We all decided that from the start, me and Richey can't write music but we can write lyrics and look pretty tarty.

Nicky Wire

Richard Hoggart's cultural analysis 'The Uses of Literacy' was published in 1957, but its influence still hovers over anyone setting out to write seriously about people's affection for things that aren't serious, such as the products of pop culture.

David Hepworth

Now I write often. I decided that I need to write for myself - I can't really direct other people's material.

Brady Corbet

My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs write life. I decided to take her up on that.

R. Kelly

My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs... write life. I decided to take her up on that.

R. Kelly

It dawned on me then that you either had to survive apartheid, or you had to perish with it. And I decided to survive.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

I went with the old adage that you should write what you know. What I knew was 18th century Britain, so what I decided I would do is write a novel based on my dissertation research.

David Liss

In 1982, when I was almost 26 years old, I decided I wanted to write fiction. I'd majored in journalism in college, and I'd always assumed I would write nonfiction.

Cynthia Kadohata

The slogan used to be 'Populate or perish'. We can now see that it is more like 'Populate and perish'. A sustainable future has to be based on stabilisation of both population and consumption.

Ian Lowe

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