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Boredom is what you fight. Constant, ever-present boredom. So you learn to look forward to small things. Sunlight glimpsed through a cloud, an extra piece… — Valerie Wilson Wesley
Vincent Lingiari, I solemnly hand to you these deeds as proof, in Australian law, that these lands belong to the Gurindji people and I put… — Gough Whitlam
Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before sending your manuscript… — Arthur Quiller-Couch
Too many poets write poems which are only difficult on the surface, difficult because the dramatic situation is easily misunderstood. It's not difficult to write… — Miller Williams
Every morning between 9 and 12 I go to my room and sit before a piece of paper. Many times, I just sit for three… — Flannery O'Connor
One of my latest sensations was going to Lady Airlie's to hear Browning read his own poems - with the comport of finding that, at… — Henry James
You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in for you creatively.… — Anne Lamott
I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me. — Evelyn Waugh
The home front is always underrated by Generals in the field. And yet that is where the Great War was won and lost. The Russian,… — David Lloyd George
Today [the voice of women] is being heard loud and clear. But I do not read the welcome triumph of feminism, social, economic, and creative,… — E. O. Wilson
Many years ago, I was in a Broadway show and I had to wear a fox fur around my shoulders. One day my hand touched… — Bea Arthur
In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture. For… — Anton Chekhov
I wish that we lived in a time and a generation where people would stop viewing my honesty as overly emotional. People always act like… — Drake
Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the unavoidable… — George Orwell
During the first five years that I was writing the series, I made plans and wrote small pieces of all the books. I concentrate on… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
There is no better feeling than when you write something you know is a piece of you and that, at some point, is going to… — Alanis Morissette
I started writing novels while an undergraduate student, in an attempt to make sense of the city of Edinburgh, using a detective as my protagonist.… — Ian Rankin
I like density, not volume. I like to leave something to the imagination. The reader must fit the pieces together, with the author's discreet help. — Maureen Howard
One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen. — Leo Tolstoy
To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too,… — Eudora Welty
The best way is to read it all every day from the start, correcting as you go along, then go on from where you stopped… — Ernest Hemingway
A novel is a piece of architecture. It's not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It's a building-it has to have walls and floors and the… — John Irving
A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes. — Jose Raul Capablanca
The king, which during the opening and middlegame stage is often a burden because it has to be defended, becomes in the endgame a very… — Jose Raul Capablanca
Although the Knight is generally considered to be on a par with the Bishop in strength, the latter piece is somehat stronger in the majority… — Jose Raul Capablanca

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