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> [Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-denney/authors-do-not-choose-a-story-to-write-the-story-chooses-us/)

[Richard Denney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-denney/)

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> [A witty and informative professor posits that more authors do not choose titles borrowed from Shakespeare's sonnets and plays for the reason some people claim not to have partners: "All the good ones are taken."](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-c-foster-2/a-witty-and-informative-professor-posits-that-more-authors-do-not/)

[Thomas C Foster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-c-foster-2/)

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