--- title: "1 Intend Write Quotes By Lore Segal" description: "1 Intend Write quotes by Lore Segal. Plus more from Lore Segal and more Intend Write sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/718/lore-segal-25570_dream_i-m-always-amused-by-the-way-questions-a_1324121.jpg" --- > [I'm always amused by the way questions are asked. "What did you intend?" That's not even a recognizable verb. You don't intend when you write. You sit down and you're thinking things and dreaming things and someone says something and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lore-segal/i-m-always-amused-by-the-way-questions-are-asked-what-did-you-intend/) [Lore Segal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lore-segal/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/718/lore-segal-25570_dream_i-m-always-amused-by-the-way-questions-a_1324121.jpg) ## More by Lore Segal > [“Story has a mind of its own and tells things sometimes it might have preferred us not to know. Stories operate like dreams; both…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lore-segal/story-has-a-mind-of-its-own-and-tells-things-sometimes-it-might-have/) [Lore Segal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lore-segal/) > [Gustave Flaubert said, "Emma Bovary, c'est moi." It is not possible to write something you are not, but to have a new form, with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lore-segal/gustave-flaubert-said-emma-bovary-c-est-moi-it-is-not-possible-to/) [Lore Segal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lore-segal/) > [“I once wrote a suicide story: A woman watches a truck bearing down toward the place on the sidewalk where she stands waiting to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lore-segal/i-once-wrote-a-suicide-story-a-woman-watches-a-truck-bearing-down/) [Lore Segal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lore-segal/) > [I read on a Kindle. I must be of the opinion that the new way to read is a pretty good way to read.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lore-segal/i-read-on-a-kindle-i-must-be-of-the-opinion-that-the-new-way-to-read/) [Lore Segal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lore-segal/) > [I'm very moved and very excited. And it just seems to me here are houses and trees and streets that feel so different from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lore-segal/i-m-very-moved-and-very-excited-and-it-just-seems-to-me-here-are/) [Lore Segal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lore-segal/) > [My idea in Half the Kingdom was simply, or not so simply perhaps, that medical science has given us twenty extra years of life.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lore-segal/my-idea-in-half-the-kingdom-was-simply-or-not-so-simply-perhaps-that/) [Lore Segal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lore-segal/) > [I'm not going to say it's laziness, but I'm not a grand creator of new characters.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lore-segal/i-m-not-going-to-say-it-s-laziness-but-i-m-not-a-grand-creator-of-new/) [Lore Segal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lore-segal/) > [I don't go to the movies because they scare me. I don't like anything that is suspenseful, even pleasantly so.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lore-segal/i-don-t-go-to-the-movies-because-they-scare-me-i-don-t-like-anything/) [Lore Segal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lore-segal/) > [I wrote Her First American and I always say it took me eighteen years. It took me that long was because after about five…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lore-segal/i-wrote-her-first-american-and-i-always-say-it-took-me-eighteen-years/) [Lore Segal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lore-segal/) > [Did the nineteenth-century novelists create more generously than we do now? In a general reading of contemporary work, do you see a lot of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lore-segal/did-the-nineteenth-century-novelists-create-more-generously-than-we/) [Lore Segal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lore-segal/) > [I'm bad at thinking about society. I love to make fun of very small aspects. For instance the privacy rules we have in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lore-segal/i-m-bad-at-thinking-about-society-i-love-to-make-fun-of-very-small/) [Lore Segal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lore-segal/) > [I'm always amused by the way questions are asked. "What did you intend?" That's not even a recognizable verb. You don't intend when you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lore-segal/i-m-always-amused-by-the-way-questions-are-asked-what-did-you-intend/) [Lore Segal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lore-segal/) > [There's that wonderful line in Measure for Measure. I forget which of the characters has committed adultery and is going to die. He looks…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lore-segal/there-s-that-wonderful-line-in-measure-for-measure-i-forget-which-of/) [Lore Segal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lore-segal/) > [I dare say you believe I'm going to die. I bet you don't believe you're going to die. You know it, but you don't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lore-segal/i-dare-say-you-believe-i-m-going-to-die-i-bet-you-don-t-believe-you/) [Lore Segal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lore-segal/) > [First book was handwritten, then the printing press, now we've got our Kindles. To be able to push a button and a dictionary comes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lore-segal/first-book-was-handwritten-then-the-printing-press-now-we-ve-got-our/) [Lore Segal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lore-segal/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/intend-write/lore-segal/#itemlist", "name": "1 Intend Write Quotes By Lore Segal", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I'm always amused by the way questions are asked. \"What did you intend?\" That's not even a recognizable verb. You don't intend when you write. 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