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I have also written a book about the Giving of the Torah, and a book on the Days of Awe, and a book on the… — Shmuel Yosef Agnon
We think that it's the big moments that define our lives-the wedding, the baby, the new house, the dream job. But really, these big moments… — Sarah Ban Breathnach
I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books. — Margaret Haddix
WIDE, the margin between carte blanche and the white page. Nevertheless it is not in the margin that you can find me, but in the… — Edmond Jabes
THE WRITER can get free of his writing only by using it, that is, by reading oneself. As if the aim of writing were to… — Edmond Jabes
Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this… — Blaise Pascal
I did a terrible television pilot that was so badly written and dumb that it became a turning point for me and I decided that… — Fran Drescher
Books written out of fire give me a great deal of pleasure. You get the sense that the world for these writers could not have… — Hisham Matar
Living like that utterly convinced me of the extreme limitations of language. I was just a chlld then,so I have only an intuitive understanding of… — Banana Yoshimoto
It just makes me realize how . . . fleeting life can be. How quickly it all passes by. And it's strange to read something… — Toni Blake
DAYS THAT I'LL REMEMBER is a lovingly assembled and beautifully written collection of conversations, observations, and memories of music, friendship, and days gone by. It's… — Martin Scorsese
If I had more time, I would have written less. — Mark Twain
You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you to… — Anne Lamott
I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is… — Dawn French
I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being a writer. I… — John Grisham
The Bible must be the invention either of good men or angels, bad men or devils, or of God. However, it was not written by… — Charles Wesley
The Bible was written not to satisfy your curiosity but to help you conform to Christ's image. Not to make you a smarter sinner but… — Howard G. Hendricks
I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs. — Gregory Harrison
Well, the first thing to say is that we've worked hard to maintain compatibility, so that any program written with an earlier version of Mathematica… — Stephen Wolfram
There was reference made to a book written in Greek by a former Rabbi who had been converted to Christianity. There was reference to a… — Julius Streicher
Wave after wave has brought to our shores beautiful and mysterious treasures from unknown worlds: figurines, animals, fetishes, masks, ceremonial or useful objects. They are… — Dominique de Menil
He [Zampano] probably would of insisted on corrections and edits, he was his own harshest critic, but I've come to believe errors, especially written errors,… — Mark Z. Danielewski
The letter kills the spirit. The written text is mute in the face of responding challenge. It does not admit of inward growth and correction.… — George Steiner
Dappled sunlight and looked at the silver vapor swirling inside. "Mist gathered at first light on the first day of the new moon on the… — Mary Pope Osborne
You can't prove anything about a program written in C or FØRTRAN. It's really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar. — Bill Joy

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