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I understand now my father really thought he was doing me good. Education means a lot to Palestinians. We’ve become some of the most educated…
— Suheir Hammad
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I have neither curiosity, interest, pain nor pleasure, in anything, good or evil, they can say of me. I feel only a slight disgust, and…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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In many college English courses the words “myth†and “symbol†are given a tremendous charge of significance. You just ain’t no good unless you can…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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When people say to me, 'Why are you so good at writing at women?' I say, 'Why isn't everybody?' Obviously there are differences between men…
— Joss Whedon
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For me, the first sign of oncoming madness is that I'm unable to write.
— Marya Hornbacher
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It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody else's, and then…
— William Golding
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I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important,…
— William Golding
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[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying... Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help
— Donald Miller
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There is nothing you can do except try to write it the way that it was. So you must write each day better than you…
— Ernest Hemingway
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I love to write and I assure you I write regularly... But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be…
— J D Salinger
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The whole point about vision is that it's very individual, it's very personal, and it has to be confessional. It has to be something which…
— Clive Barker
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The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes. Then there is the business of…
— Gore Vidal
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Write like a motherfucker.
— Cheryl Strayed
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I have become convinced that the more wealth a country accumulates, the more isolated and lonely its people become. The loneliest are usually the children…
— Wess Stafford
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As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I developed a sense that meaning itself was resident…
— Joan Didion
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Ringo: 'I do get emotional when I think back about those times. My make-up is emotional. I'm an emotional human being. I'm very sensitive and…
— Ringo Starr
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You can't write a script in your mind and then force yourself to follow it. You have to let yourself be.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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…my life has been a remarkable one. Maybe one day someone will write a book about me . . .†"I’ve never much cared for…
— Anthony Horowitz
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I write the word solitude on my wall and then below it: Do you know me at all? Are my words just air? Is my…
— Jessica Sorensen
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