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I've written about domestic violence in my book, Lola Rose and it's a great relief to know that terrified children like Jayni, my fictional heroine… — Jacqueline Wilson
I don't like lyrics that are just thrown together, that were obviously written as you went along, or the song was already written and the… — Neil Peart
How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: 'The lady is smiling because she is… — Stanley Kubrick
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
When the history of our times is written, will we be remembered as the generation that turned our backs in a moment of global crisis… — Nelson Mandela
An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past — Pierre Corneille
Astronomy is written for astronomers — Nicolaus Copernicus
I never assign a product to a writer unless I know that he is personally interested in it. Every time I have written a bad… — David Ogilvy
In an age when other fantastically speedy, widespread media are triumphing, and running the risk of flattening all communication onto a single, homogenous surface, the… — Italo Calvino
Because a poem is not written while running or while answering the phone. It's written in whatever minutes one has. Sometimes you have half an… — Sharon Olds
I'm late to everything. I've always wanted to have it written in my will that when I die, the coffin shows up a half hour… — Axl Rose
I have written on numerous occasions that there is no distinction in the American Muslim community between peaceful Muslims and jihadists. While Americans prefer to imagine… — Robert Spencer
There is nothing in anything that I have ever written that could be reasonably construed as an incitement to violence against anyone. — Robert Spencer
I've lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about writing, dreaming about writing, can… — Laurell K. Hamilton
Poetry, which is written while no one is looking, is meant to be looked at for all time. — Kenneth Koch
Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics specifically, I mean… — Kenneth Koch
The saddest songs are written when a person is happy. — Merle Travis
Awareness-mindfulness-is the first step in healing. In Counterclockwise, Dr. Ellen Langer eloquently describes how becoming more aware of our beliefs and expectations allows us to… — Dean Ornish
I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write. — Donna Tartt
A statute is written to entrap meaning, a poem to escape it. — Hilary Mantel
If you read the biographies of people who have written good books, you often see the point where they suddenly come into themselves, and those… — Jonathan Franzen
I say this often, THINK. There is something in life called common sense. Webster's says common sense is sound and prudent judgment based on a… — Jack White
I certainly wouldn't want a song that I'd already written to be used on a commercial. That seems strange. — Jack White
The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to… — Saul Alinsky
We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to document our history… — Erykah Badu

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