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As difficult as it is for a writer to find a publisher-admittedly a daunting task-it is twice as difficult for a publisher to sort through… — Olivia Goldsmith
Plot springs from character... I've always sort of believed that these people inside me- these characters- know who they are and what they're about and… — Anne Lamott
The writing process is sort of like when you've got no electricity and you've gotten up in the middle of the night to find the… — Carolyn Chute
Have some sort of a private place to work in. Put up a sign to keep from being interrupted. Mine says: "Please, do not knock,… — Judith Krantz
The tantalizing and compelling pursuit of mathematical problems offers mental absorption, peace of mind amid endless challenges, repose in activity, battle without conflict, refuge from… — Morris Kline
It's the first time in the history of the world that creatives are also distributors. And that's very profound if you think that up until… — Chase Jarvis
Well, I sort of don't trust anybody who doesn't like Led Zeppelin. — Jack White
Endings of one rook and pawns are about the most common sort of endings arising on the chess board. Yet though they do occur so… — Jose Raul Capablanca
I have sort of a Zen body philosophy, I'm sort of like: we're one weight one day, we're one weight another day, and some day… — Lena Dunham
Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be a gentleman there.… — George Bernard Shaw
I think there's a reason why wine figures into so many religions. There's something transcendent about it. It's sort of the way that music is… — Maynard James Keenan
When not deeply engaged in creative activities, or numbed out by the TV, I felt empty. My heart hurt. I often felt hollow or as… — Judith Wright
I have the same confidence in the ability of our people to reject noxious literature as I have in their capacity to sort out the… — William O. Douglas
Modern economics is sick. Economics has increasingly become an intellectual game played for its own sake and not for its practical consequences for understanding the… — Mark Blaug
Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that which the term… — James Madison
You're saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
States are violent institutions. The government of any country, including ours, represents some sort of domestic power structure, and it's usually violent. States are violent… — Noam Chomsky
Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. — Robertson Davies
Remember that the animals and plants have no M.P. they can write to; they can't perform sit-down strikes or, indeed, strikes of any sort; they… — Gerald Durrell
The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is… — Charles Macklin

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