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I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'.

— Howard Barker

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✓Similar Perspectives

I rarely find that things put in quotes, attributed to me, are things that I said -certainly in the context in which they are presented.

— Annie Potts

People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never say.'

— Jennifer Weiner

I let people say and write what they want.

— Ruud van Nistelrooy

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

— Michel de Montaigne

With no more than six levels of misquotation, any statement can be made to say whatever you wish.

— John McCarthy

People will read into what you say no matter what, so it doesn't matter to me.

— Norah Jones

I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example; I don't read what's handed to me. People say, 'Here, here's your speech, or here's an idea for a speech.' They're changed. Trust me.

— George W. Bush

✗Opposing Perspectives

I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it.

— Lou Reed

I never stop making sure that what I say is the best of what could be said about a particular thing. It's a constant evolution. If I planted a tree one way yesterday, and somebody tells me of a better way to plant a tree, I think, 'You know, they're right, that's better.' Then I change my way to accommodate the new way of planting trees.

— Martha Stewart