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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art. — Balthus
I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a… — Robert Caro
Nobody believes this, but I write very fast, — Robert Caro
I always want to write something better than the last book. — Tracy Kidder
I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to… — Tracy Kidder
I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a… — Tracy Kidder
I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth… — Tracy Kidder
The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying… — Tracy Kidder
A lot of people go off and have fun adventures, or hard adventures, and their impulse is to write about them right away. What really… — Cheryl Strayed
But every point of view is a point of blindness: it incapacitates us for every other point of view. From a certain point of view,… — Richard Wurmbrand
Without dignity our lives are only blinks of duration. But if we manage to lead a good life well, we create something more. We write… — Ronald D Dworkin
I don't think the press are vindictive. They can write what they want — Mike Gatting
I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words, — P.J. O'Rourke
They ask me what I'd like written about me when I'm gone. I hope they write I made Penn State a better place, not just… — Joe Paterno
A writer works from the material she has, but it comes from the unconscious. Everything is stored up and one never knows what comes up… — Rosamond Lehmann
Singing is my main goal, and I think philosophy will help me write songs. — Jackie Evancho
Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about. — Jackie Collins
I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can… — Jackie Collins
Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about… — Jackie Collins
I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre. — Jackie Collins

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