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Well I actually do have a country house in Connecticut with a population of 3,000. Like, how small is that? I spend a lot of… — Candace Bushnell
The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business. — A J Liebling
Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just as profound as… — James Turrell
The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write. — Roger Ascham
I didn't write a book. It wasn't for self-enrichment. — Linda Tripp
No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written — Alice Hoffman
I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well… — Alice Hoffman
I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies… — Alice Hoffman
There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song — Masanobu Fukuoka
And to use something as elegant as a tree? Imagine this design assignment: Design somethingÂ that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distills water, makes… — William McDonough
To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende. — Erich Auerbach
I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are. — Jean M. Auel
Nothing is better for a young journalist than to go and write about something that other people don't know about. If you can afford to… — Tina Brown
I tend to cut David Brooks more slack than most people I know do, and I do it for one main reason. He can write.… — Unknown Author
If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in… — Edmund White
I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography… — Edmund White
The Germans and Austrians are very polite, the Swiss are very reserved and the Spanish usually kiss me. The Brits write me letters. — Donna Leon
When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each one, then on… — Benjamin Franklin
On my tombstone, I really hope that someday they will write: He was true but partial... — Ken Wilber
I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to… — Haruki Murakami

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