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According to Adams, Jefferson proposed that he, Adams, do the writing [pf the Declaration of Independence], but that he declined, telling Jefferson he must do…
— David McCullough
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If you want to see the consequences of ideas, write a story. If you want to see the consequences of belief, write a story in…
— Charles Baxter
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Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.
— Jane Austen
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You will have significant experiences. I hope that you will write them down and keep record of them, that you will read them from time…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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The complexity of economics can be calculated mathematically. Write out the algebraic equation that is the human heart and multiply each unknown by the population…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Still, these days when I daydream about the movie, I don't think about the big picture. It's more fun for me to think of little…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two aspirins, lie down in a dark room, and wait for…
— Lawrence Block
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(The new boyfriend) knows I write every day for hours but has no idea that all I’m writing about is me. It seems wiser to…
— Augusten Burroughs
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The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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The master said you must write what you see / But what I see does not move me / The master answered Change what you…
— Louise Glück
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If I made a joke about just dropping by, would you write me off as cliché?
— Cassandra Clare
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Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks -- those who write new values on new tablets. Companions…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Assuming you can write clear English sentences, give up all worry about communication. If you want to communicate, use the telephone.
— Richard Hugo
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Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work…
— Helen Keller
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We did meet forty years ago. At that time we were both influenced by Whitman and I said, jokingly in part, 'I don't think anything…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I do not know what I think until I write it.
— George Bernard Shaw
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At the end of the day, the circumstances of your life-- what you look like,where you come from,how much money you have,what you've got going…
— Barack Obama
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Advice to young writers wo want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.
— Elwyn Brooks White
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The future is unwritten. there are best case scenarios. There are worst-case scenarios. both of them are great fun to write about if you' re…
— Bruce Sterling
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If I ever saw my muse she would be an old woman with a tight bun and spectacles poking me in the middle of the…
— Kerry Greenwood
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