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Just because you can read, write and do a little math, doesn't mean that you're entitled to conquer the universe. — Kurt Vonnegut
As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching… — Paul Rudnick
The house became full of love. Aureliano expressed it in poetry that had no beginning and no end. He would write it on the harsh… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
If you write for God you will reach many men and bring them joy. If you write for men--you may make some money and you… — Thomas Merton
I write this sitting in the kitchen sink. — Dodie Smith
You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of… — Gertrude Stein
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. — Mark Twain
All of us have failed to match our dream of perfection. I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.… — William Faulkner
The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person,… — Margaret Atwood
Let us dare to read, think, speak and write. — John Adams
The solitude of writing is a solitude without which writing could not be produced, or would crumble, drained bloodless by the search for something else… — Marguerite Duras
I write for the unlearned about things in which I am unlearned myself. — C.S. Lewis
and then there are some who believe that old relationships can be revived and made new again. but please if you feel that way don't… — Charles Bukowski
How sweet is the assurance, how comforting is the peace that come from the knowledge that if we marry right and live right, our relationship… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Shut the door, they're coming through the window, shut the window, they're coming through the door," are the words to an old song. They fit… — Ray Bradbury
Remember, it's the winners write the history books, and the losers get the leavings. — Joanne Harris
If you don't like someone's story, write your own. — Chinua Achebe
Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself.… — Madeleine L'Engle
I don't want to analyze myself or anything, but I think, in fact I know this to be true, that I enter the world through… — Aaron Sorkin
I have said before, and shall say again, that I write this book for love of your love. — Saint Augustine
That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version. — Chuck Palahniuk
I have people in my life, of course. Some write; some don't. Some read; some don't. Some stare vacantly into space when I talk the… — Rob Thurman
I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life. I can't be satisfied with… — Sylvia Plath
When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never… — John Steinbeck
Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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