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Money is not worth dying for. I know, because years ago, while nearly a million dollars in debt, suicide was an option. Rather than run,… — Robert Kiyosaki
In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him. — Thomas Hobbes
Dig deep into your heart, where the answer spreads its roots in your being, and ask yourself solemnly, Must I write? — Rainer Maria Rilke
I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny. — Paula Danziger
It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere. — Annie Dillard
I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in… — Jodi Picoult
Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker alone is truly free. — George Berkeley
It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together. — Maurice Gibb
The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan… — Augusten Burroughs
We've backed off in good faith to try and give you a chance to straighten this problem out. But I am going to beg with… — James Mattis
I think everything I do has Howard Roark [hero of The Fountainhead] in it, you know, as much as anything. The person I write for… — Neil Peart
I never had any lessons. When I first started playing I used to read music. I was very interested in music. But when I started… — John Bonham
I write because I'm unhappy. I write because it's a way of fighting unhappiness. — Mario Vargas Llosa
I write poetry because I can’t disobey the impulse; it would be like blocking a spring that surges up in my throat. For a long… — Gabriela Mistral
I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up… — Amy Tan
You may be able to write a novel, you may not. You will never know until you have worked very hard indeed and written at… — Ngaio Marsh
You must be able to write. You must have a sense of form, of pattern, of design. You must have a respect for and a… — Ngaio Marsh
I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work. — Sara Paretsky
I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book — Sara Paretsky
It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating — Sara Paretsky
What I try to do is write a story about a detective rather than a detective story. Keeping the reader fooled until the last, possible… — Dashiell Hammett
I write every day when I'm at home - trying to catch up with correspondence. — Colin Dexter
I think that you've got to be prepared to write a load of nonsense to start with and then you can tart it up. The… — Colin Dexter
I do not allow fan-fiction. The characters are copyrighted. It upsets me terribly to even think about fan-fiction with my characters. I advise my readers… — Anne Rice

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