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Writing and reading are the only ways to find your voice. It won't magically burst forth in your poems the next time you sit down… — Dorianne Laux
If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin. — Ivan Turgenev
Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose itâ€™s an early… — Eudora Welty
Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light. — Kate DiCamillo
I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go… — George Eliot
Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up… — E L Konigsburg
[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, if there is… — Charles Fort
So many versions of just one memory, and yet none of them were right or wrong. Instead, they were all pieces. Only when fitted together,… — Sarah Dessen
When she packed up to leave, she knew that she was saying goodbye to something important, which was not that bad, in a way, because… — Lorrie Moore
The end of THE END is the best place to begin THE END, because if you read THE END from the beginning of the beginning… — Daniel Handler
If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the world a better place,… — Sarah Dessen
There are those of us who are always about to live. We are waiting until things change, until there is more time, until we are… — George A. Sheehan
When I play too many video games I begin to feel chubby-minded, caffeinated, bad. — Tom Bissell
When King Lear dies in act five, do you know what Shakespeare has written? He has written, 'He dies.' No more. No fanfare, no metaphor,… — Suzanne Weyn
No person [should] walk out into the world to begin the day until he or she has stood beneath the cross to receive Godâ€™s love. — Max Lucado
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. — Benjamin Franklin
Turn the page, continue reading, and let the next story begin... — Suzanne Weyn
Is," "is," "is"â€”the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything… — Robert Anton Wilson
Where does contagion end and art begin? — Neil Gaiman
True love is delicate and kind, full of gentle perception and understanding, full of beauty and grace, full of joy unutterable. There should be some… — Dorothy Day

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