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We human beings build houses because we're alive but we write books because we're mortal. We live in groups because we're sociable but we read… — Daniel Pennac
Dead women tell no tales. Sad men write them down. — Daniel Handler
Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take literally the tenth-hand… — Christopher Hitchens
We know of no spectacle more ridiculousâ€”or more contemptibleâ€”than that of the religious reactionaries who dare to re-write the history of our republic. Or who… — Christopher Hitchens
My books happen. They tend to blast in from nowhere, seize me by the throat, and howl 'Write me! Write me now!' But they rarely… — Robin McKinley
I have undertaken, you see, to write not only my life, but my opinions also; hoping and expecting that your knowledge of my character, and… — Laurence Sterne
True love requires action. We can speak of love all day long, we can write notes or poems that proclaim it, sing songs that praise… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
If I choose to write about sheep, it's just because I happened to write about sheep. There is no deep significance. — Haruki Murakami
I say one thing, you write another, and those who read you understand still something else! I say: cross, death, kingdom of heaven, God...and what… — Nikos Kazantzakis
How well I would write if I were not here! — Italo Calvino
You can't argue with someone who believes, or just passionately suspects, that the poet's function is not to write what he must write but, rather,… — J D Salinger
If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are. — Arthur Conan Doyle
If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read. — Giacomo Casanova
I don't know what I think until I write it down. — Joan Didion
we should write because writing brings clarity and passion to the act of living. writing is sensual, experiential, grounding. we should write because writing is… — Julia Cameron
Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or… — Sylvia Plath
â€¦[Thomas Wolfe] says that we are the sum of all the moments of our lives, and that, uh, anybody who sits down to write is… — Richard Linklater
As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to… — Virginia Woolf
In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write… — Junot Diaz
I could have guessed it all along, cuz now some drama queen is gonna write a song for me — Emilie Autumn

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