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When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don't put down a word until the play seems ready to be… — Edward Albee
It would be morally reprehensible not to tell the truth... Everything I have written has stood the test of time. — Kitty Kelley
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through. — Henrik Ibsen
I have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader. — Isaac Asimov
History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether… — Theodore White
History is written by winners, so most history books are about people who win. — Harold S. Kushner
This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it… — Anthony Trollope
All talk is just that: talk. All the words written on these pages are just that: words. If you want things to get better, take… — Larry Winget
Our life is not given to us like an opera libretto, in which all is written down; but it means going, walking, doing, searching, seeing....… — Pope Francis
Just about everybody has written a first novel that they throw away before writing their actual first novel. — Daniel Handler
A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. — Sarah Ban Breathnach
I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself. — May Sarton
I'm not an atheist. I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are… — Albert Einstein
Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just… — Michael Korda
The greatest multiplex in the universe is inside your mind, and the only ticket you need is a good, well-written novel. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
In my eyes Marlantes has become the pre-eminent literary voice on war of our generation. He is a natural storyteller and a deeply profound thinker… — Sebastian Junger
When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the luminous, inscribed disk… — Hermann Hesse
If you have all the research, all the ground rules, all the directives, all the data - it doesn't mean the ad is written. Then… — David Ogilvy
Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal. Some of it… — Alan Dean Foster
Honest songs aren`t written for money. — Pete Seeger
The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written. — Elizabeth Kenny
Poetry is music written for the human voice. — Maya Angelou
It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly. It is fatal for a woman to… — Virginia Woolf
I don't think any poetry is written that isn't primarily written to the self, in a way... I'm always talking to myself. But I seem… — Kay Ryan
I hear no one boast, that he hath a knowledge of the Scriptures, but that he owneth a Bible written in golden characters. And tell… — Saint John Chrysostom

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