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I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just… — Jackie Collins
I'm just not that fascinating a person to have had all those lives that I've written about. — Michael Stipe
Plutarch has written an essay on the benefits which a man may receive from his enemies; and among the good fruits of enmity, mentions this… — Joseph Addison
I am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about suicide that was strangely heartening. — Kay Redfield Jamison
A hastily written "Civil Rights Act" was rushed through Congress. President Andrew Johnson immediately vetoed it, noting that the right to confer citizenship rested with… — Eustace Mullins
You see, if the height of the mercury [barometer] column is less on the top of a mountain than at the foot of it (as… — Blaise Pascal
Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the wealth they owe to science, our societies are still trying to practice and to teach systems of… — Jacques Monod
The Universe is a grand book which cannot be read until one first learns to comprehend the language and become familiar with the characters in… — Galileo Galilei
For as the aged, or those whose sight is defective, when any book, however fair, is set before them, though they perceive that there is… — John Calvin
Strange, I feel as if up to now I had written no more than a few notes. — Ludwig van Beethoven
It's extremely seldom that anybody wants me to change what I've written about them. Generally I portray them in a good light, if they're friends — Harvey Pekar
When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Dialogue in fiction is always written to be read in silence. The page is the limit. Dialogue on stage and on the screen is meant… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Among the small number of things that I have liked and known how to do well, what I have assuredly known how to do best… — Guy Debord
The God in whose hands are all our days and ways, did cast into my hand one day a book of Martin Luthers; it was… — John Bunyan
Here is the life of prayer, when in or with the Spirit, a man being made sensible of sin, and how to come to the… — John Bunyan
Whatever may be said about the doctrine of election, it is written in the Word of God as with an iron pen, and there is… — Charles Spurgeon
Peace may be negotiated by politicians, but it is something written in hearts and minds not on pieces of paper — Emmanuel Jal
In no country has the historical blackout been more intense and effective than in Great Britain. Here it has been ingeniously christened The Iron Curtain… — Harry Elmer Barnes
The Bill of Rights was not written to protect governments from trouble. It was written precisely to give the people the constitutional means to cause… — Henry Steele Commager
When I wrote 'Fast Food My Way' in 2004, I hoped that my friends would prepare my recipes. Now, more people cook from that book… — Jacques Pepin
Although we have no actual written communications from the world of emptiness, we have some hints or suggestions about what is going on in that… — Shunryu Suzuki
I have never written anything sexually explicit, — Lynne Cheney
The whole function of the life of prayer is, then, to enlighten and strengthen our conscience so that it not only knows and perceives the… — Thomas Merton
Andy Harp's RETRIBUTION is a stunner: a blow to the gut and shot of adrenaline. Here is a novel written with authentic authority and bears shocking relevance… — James Rollins

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