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We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one… — Anne Lamott
The best morals kids get from any book is just the capacity to empathize with other people, to care about the characters and their feelings.… — Louis Sachar
I hope I am not too old to take it up seriously, nor too stupid about machines to qualify as a commercial pilot. I do… — Samuel Beckett
I am beguiled by your physical beauty, and I am moved by how head-over-heels in love with books you are. And nowhere else have I… — Kurt Vonnegut
You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because there's too much… — Gore Vidal
You write your books. You scatter your seeds. Rats might eat them, or they might rot. In California, some seeds lie dormant for decades because… — Rebecca Solnit
When I want to read a novel, I write one. — Benjamin Disraeli
When you write your first novel you don't really know what you're doing. There may be writers out there who are brilliant, incisive and in… — Robin McKinley
The story is always better than your ability to write it. — Robin McKinley
Ah men, why do you want all this attention? I can write poems for myself, make love to a doorknob if absolutely necessary. What do… — Margaret Atwood
What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks â€˜the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat,â€™....… — Maya Angelou
I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live. — Francoise Sagan
Harry: This book belongs to Harry Potter. Ron: Shared by Ron Weasley, because his fell apart. Hermione: Why don't you buy a new one then?… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Write a little every day, without hope, without despair. — Isak Dinesen
You cannot write unless you write much. — W. Somerset Maugham
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A… — Nelson Algren
When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity. — Edwidge Danticat
To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man. — Aristotle
I have a dark and dreadful secret. I write poetry... I believe poetry is a primal impulse within all of us. I believe we are… — Stephen Fry
The Gods we worship write their names on our faces; be sure of that. And a man will worship something ... That which dominates will… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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