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Abe's face came back into focus. "Greetings, Zmey," I said weakly. Somehow, him being here didn't surprise me. "Nice of you to slither on in."…
— Richelle Mead
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To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught…
— John Ruskin
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I am not here [in the sanitarium] to write, but to be mad.
— Robert Walser
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I have tried to write Paradise Do not move Let the wind speak that is paradise. Let the Gods forgive what I have made Let…
— Ezra Pound
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If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.
— Patrick Rothfuss
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I Write those words in steel for anything else not set in metal cannot be trusted
— Brandon Sanderson
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I have heard what poets write about women. They rhyme and rhapsodize and lie. I have watched sailors on the shore stare mutely at the…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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It is a delicious thing to write, to be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating. Today, for…
— Gustave Flaubert
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Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!
— Ray Bradbury
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I tried to keep myself away from him by using con words like "fidelity" and "adultery", by telling myself that he would interfere with my…
— Erica Jong
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I thought to myself, 'why not write a bestseller?' In the first place, more people buy them and more people read them. You make more…
— George Burns
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When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can.
— Jennifer Donnelly
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I'll think about something else. I'll just sit quietly. If I could sit still. If I could sit still, maybe I could read. Oh, all…
— Dorothy Parker
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Forget it. Never explain; never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't.
— Christopher Hitchens
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I do shodo magic,†Dali said. “I curse through calligraphy. I have to write the curse out on a piece of paper and I can’t…
— Ilona Andrews
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The BALLPOINT PENGUINS, black and white, Do little else but write and write. Although they've nothing much to say, They write and write it anyway....
— Jack Prelutsky
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- I don't want to be a writer so I can write about my life. I want to be a writer to escape from it.…
— Candace Bushnell
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To memorize something,it's best to write it down.
— Koushun Takami
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I write only for my shadow which is cast on the wall in front of the light. I must introduce myself to it.
— Sadegh Hedayat
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It never failed—I'd buy a new journal, write like a madwoman for ten pages, then lose total interest in the process. Three months later, I'd…
— MaryJanice Davidson
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