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The most important story we'll ever write in life is our own-not with ink, but with our daily choices. — Richard Paul Evans
I become one of those people who walks alone in the dark at night while others sleep or watch Mary Tyler Moore reruns or pull… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. — Alvin Toffler
I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words. — Craig Claiborne
For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which… — Virginia Woolf
If this advertisement be not sufficient, I can only protrude my wormlike tendrils of apology, craving forbearance on the grounds that a writer must write… — William T. Vollmann
If you want to become a man of letters and perhaps write some Histories one day, you must also lie and invent tales, otherwise your… — Umberto Eco
No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes… — Edwidge Danticat
A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues can persecute writers… — Doris Lessing
We lie. That's what we do. You're selling me a line of bullshit and you want me to sell you a line of bullshit back… — Jennifer Egan
I am too fond of reading books to care to write them. — Oscar Wilde
I was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone who won prizes, got published and was given the time… — Ann Patchett
I want to sleep like the birds then wake to write you again without hope that you read me. — Donald Hall
Nobody can write such ironic things unless he has a deep sense of injustice-injustice to those members of the race who are victims of the… — Franklin P. Adams
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet,… — Robert A. Heinlein
What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question… — Ernest Hemingway
The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry aboutâ€”cloudsâ€”daffodilsâ€”waterfallsâ€”what happens in a cup of coffee when the cream goes inâ€”these things… — Tom Stoppard
Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink. — A. S. Byatt
No matter where; of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write… — William Shakespeare
Write what should not be forgotten. — Isabel Allende

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