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Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me. — Ashwin Sanghi
I started making houses for ants because I thought they needed somewhere to live. Then I made them shoes and hats. It was a fantasy… — Willard Wigan
My imagination? No, I don't think it's VIVID at all. On the contrary, it's not nearly potent enough. My poor imaginative faculties have always needed...extentions.… — Thomas Ligotti
Summer, and he watches his children's heart break. Autumn again and Boo's children needed him. Atticus was right. One time he said you never really… — Harper Lee
If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC — Kurt Vonnegut
Youâ€™ve just mentioned the price that has to be paidâ€¦Pride, freedomâ€¦Knowledge. Whether at the beginning or at the end, you have to pay for everything.… — Arturo PÃ©rez-Reverte
Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo… — Flannery O'Connor
And it was always the stories that needed the telling that gave us the rope we could cross any river with. They balanced us high… — Ali Smith
She wanted to leave, she wanted to lie alone face down on her bed and savor the vile piquancy of the moment, and go back… — Ian Mcewan
Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is… — Hunter S. Thompson
It occurred to me that if Africa needed us, sometimes we needed Africa a great deal more. — Helen Fielding
When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother's hand, his fingers could see in the dark. — John Irving
It was a bitter moment for us. We weren't two mature parents. We were just two kids playing grown-up. We still needed Mommy and Daddy's… — Erma Bombeck
...even the most independent people sometimes needed help. And if I'd learned nothing else from my life thus far, it was that you don't always… — Margaret Haddix
It smells terrible in here.' Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we tend to forget in this… — John Kennedy Toole
It wasn't torpor that kept her - she was often restless to the point of irritability. She simply liked to feel that she was prevented… — Ian Mcewan
Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to… — Robert A. Heinlein
his examination revealed that he had no fever, no pain anywhere, and that his only concrete feeling was an urgent desire to die. All that… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them. — Ian Mcewan
We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed. — Maya Angelou

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