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title: "3 Owen Sheers Quotes - Famous Writer"
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# Owen Sheers

(1974)   Writer

 **3** quotes in **8** categories

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Owen Sheers is a writer.

## Quick Facts About Owen Sheers

Born September 20, 1974

Profession Writer

## About Owen Sheers

Poet and novelist... \| Owen Sheers is a Welsh poet, author, playwright and television presenter. He was the first writer-in-residence to be appointed by any national rugby union team.

##  Quotes by Owen Sheers

> [“Life, she felt, was an instrument, and the trick was to find the tune you could play on it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/owen-sheers/life-she-felt-was-an-instrument-and-the-trick-was-to-find-the-tune/)

Owen Sheers

[Instrument](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/instrument/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2da/owen-sheers-77994_life_life-she-felt-was-an-instrument-and-the_1330651.jpg)

> [“There are narrow windows for certain beginnings. Multiple strands of personal histories, psychologies, emotions that intersect once only, and then never again.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/owen-sheers/there-are-narrow-windows-for-certain-beginnings-multiple-strands-of/)

Owen Sheers

[Beginnings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/beginnings/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef3/owen-sheers-77994_beginnings_there-are-narrow-windows-for-certain-beg_2457713.jpg)

> [“Better by far to live in the truth and know it, however bad it may be, than hide yourself away behind ignorance…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/owen-sheers/better-by-far-to-live-in-the-truth-and-know-it-however-bad-it-may-be/)

Owen Sheers

[Habits](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/habits/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0cd/owen-sheers-77994_habits_better-by-far-to-live-in-the-truth-and-k_2492700.jpg)

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