Born Quote by Alistair Maclean Download Open image “I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing.” — Alistair Maclean ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Born Enjoy Writing
If you didn't want to be written about, you shouldn't have been born to a writer! — Emily Yoffe Copy Share Image
I was born a writer. When that happens, you have no choice in the matter. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
One doesn't choose to become a writer. One is just born that way. — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Copy Share Image
I was never born to write. I was taught to write. And I am still being taught to write. — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
You were born with the seeds of your talent, the ability to observe the world around you and weave piece of it into a… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Bowman turned his back on her and began to search the place methodically and exhaustively. When one searches any place, be it a gypsy… — Alistair Maclean Copy Share Image
“Foster always said that education was very important, but that it didn't really matter, because intelligence was more important than that, and that even intelligence didn't count for so much, that wisdom was far more important still. He said he had no idea in the world whether you had education or intelligence or wisdom and that it couldn't matter less,… — Alistair MacLean Copy Share
I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished. — Alistair Maclean Copy Share Image
There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, to live, to die—that takes courage enough in itself, and more than enough. We are all brave men and we are all afraid, and what the world calls a brave man, he too is brave and afraid like the… — Alistair Maclean Copy Share
“Tallal, Lawrence relates, gave a moan like a hurt animal. Then he rode off to higher ground and remained there for some moments, shivering violently and staring after the retreating Turks. Lawrence moved to speak with him, but Auda caught his rein and stopped him. In one blow, in one moment, Tallal had lost every person in the world who… — Alistair MacLean Copy Share
...the men of the Ulysses had no need to stand in shame...many had found, or were finding, that the point of no return was… — Alistair Maclean Copy Share Image
This won't look so good in my obituary," Schaffer said dolefully. There was a perceptible edge of strain under the lightly-spoken words."Gave his life… — Alistair Maclean Copy Share Image
“The point I make is simply that cruelty and hate and intolerance are the monopoly of no particular race or creed or time. They… — Alistair MacLean Copy Share Image
“I should have listened to Hunslett. Again I should have listened to Hunslett. And again for Hunslett's sake. But I didn't know then that… — Alistair MacLean Copy Share Image
“He must have courage, not the physical courage required on a battlefield but the moral courage to make and carry out decisions that might… — Alistair MacLean Copy Share Image
“She was still doing forty knots, driving in under the guns of the enemy, guns at maximum depression, when "A" magazine blew up, blasted… — Alistair MacLean Copy Share Image
“She had the best kind of courage, or maybe the worst kind, the kind that gets you into trouble.” — Alistair MacLean Copy Share Image
My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
I always thought if I was born 2000 years earlier, I would be a monk, probably carving a monastery or some giant pantheon buildings. — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow everything your high-born teachers tell… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Orlando, where the economy and culture has been powerfully shaped by tourism, and so I've long been interested… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I know that in the rap game you've got a lot of people, that come from poverty, was born in poverty and if it… — Jon Connor Copy Share Image
Nothing old is ever reborn but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been born, will always reappear in a new… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Must I go bound while you go free Must I love a manwho doesn't love me Must I be born with so little art… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I'm not against gay people. I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way. — Manny Pacquiao Copy Share Image
For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies. — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
