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I've never written the things I'd like to write that I've admired all my life. Maybe one never does. — Elizabeth Bishop
When a dancer comes onstage, he is not just a blank slate that the choreographer has written on. Behind him he has all the decisions… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
Do you know we have more acreage of forest land in the United States today than we did at the time the Constitution was written. — Rush Limbaugh
Amnesiac was written to make fun of senior citizens with alzheimers. I hate them and I wish they'd die. — Thom Yorke
It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare. — Virginia Woolf
I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I… — PJ Harvey
People no longer write letters. Lacking the leisure, and, for the most part, the ability, they dictate dispatches, and scribble messages. When you are in… — Joel Chandler Harris
I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into… — Shmuel Yosef Agnon
You have to write the book that wants to be written, — Madeleine L'Engle
There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren't loads of countries where they're followed. — Stephen Breyer
If you don’t have a plan, you will fail, and you can quote me.” You need a definite plan, it should be written down, and it… — Napoleon Hill
I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires. — Roddy Doyle
You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved… — Roddy Doyle
These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular… — Alain Badiou
A great deal has been written about the forthrightness of the moderns shocking the Victorians, but there is no shock like the one which the… — Margery Allingham
Why multiply instances? It is written, the Heavens and the Earth shall fade away like a Vesture; which indeed they are: the Time-vesture of the… — Thomas Carlyle
Africa’s story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story. — Paul Kagame
I've never made an outline for any novel that I've written. Never. — Don DeLillo
It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that… — Don DeLillo
When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery. — Don DeLillo
There ought to be a book written about me, that there ought! — Lewis Carroll
Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the… — Victor Hugo
I was shocked at college to see one hundred of my classmates in the library all reading copies of the same book. Instead of doing… — John Cage
In all spheres of modern life the influence of Stalin reaches wide and deep. From his last simply written but vastly discerning and comprehensive document,… — Paul Robeson
All that we have to do is to send two mujahedeen to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is… — Osama bin Laden

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