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I was educated privately for free because I was a scholarship girl, 100% scholarship girl. I got it on my own merits. I would never… — Louise Mensch
Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear… — Nelson Goodman
And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about. — Maynard James Keenan
Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble. It sounds swell when you write about it, but it's hell when you meet it face to… — Louis L'Amour
I didn't really choose to write; I more or less fell into it. — Anne Tyler
I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write… — Anne Tyler
I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I… — Anne Tyler
But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the… — Anne Tyler
I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving… — Anne Tyler
I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays — Beth Henley
I try and write honestly about what I see around me now. — Billy Bragg
I write to please myself—of course, that is a given. But beyond this reach for pleasure, I know that I write for my countrymen, that… — F. Sionil JosÃ©
I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart. — Taiye Selasi
I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims. — Taiye Selasi
With fiction, there’s no reason why everything you write shouldn’t be amazing. Nobody’s stopping you from making up better stuff. — Wells Tower
I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out. — Alan Bennett
I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me. — Edward Bond
It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play — Edward Bond
I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing. — Rosanne Cash
I think it's silly for anyone to think you could write under the influence, but if they'd like to think that, I'd like to keep… — Denis Johnson
With tremendous clarity and wisdom, Daniel Tomasulo has crafted a memoir at once heartbreaking and uplifting. Layers of time and memory—childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle… — Dani Shapiro
I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it. — Richard Brautigan
Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women — Kristin Hersh
Dreamt I died in Chicago next weekend (heart attack in my sleep). Need to write my will today, — Unknown Author
I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the… — Vaclav Klaus

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