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The only equivalent plunge from genius I could think of was Ernest Hemmingway's tragic loss of ability to write. Hemmingway got up one morning and… — Ian Wooldridge
We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit. We do not write about… — Jonathan Kozol
When you set a goal, write it down and then it's like making a promise to yourself. — Tony DiCicco
I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write… — Arthur C. Clarke
Young people today have lots of experience ... interacting with new technologies, but a lot less so of creating [or] expressing themselves with new technologies.… — Mitchel Resnick
By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware. — Barry Schuler
My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind… — Edward Abbey
You're not being paid by how hard you work, but by what you accomplish. If you can't hack it, pack it. Our challenge today is… — William A. Connelly
I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting as weeding. I went crazy… — Robert Louis Stevenson
I never before knew the full value of trees. Under them I breakfast, dine, write, read and receive my company. — Thomas Jefferson
Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one. — Brad Paisley
How interesting it would be to write the story of the experiences in this life of a man who killed himself in his previous life;… — Leo Tolstoy
It isn't often that a writer of superlative skills knows enough about flying to write well about it. — Samuel Hynes
I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work. — Charles Babbage
Dream dreams and write them aye, but live them first. — Samuel Eliot Morison
One of these days I'm going to write a book on drops. That ought to sell. The shot's become more popular than putting. — Jimmy Demaret
More than anything else, though, to anyone who would write about it, golf offers a four-hour drama in two acts, which becomes memorable even in… — Alistair Cooke
You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script. — Oprah Winfrey
We must begin to make what I call "conscious choices," and to really recognize that we are the same. It's from that place in my… — John Denver
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for… — Moliere

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