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I should think it extremely improbable that anyone ever wrote for money. Naturally, when he has written something, he wants to get as much for… — P.G. Wodehouse
Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document? We now know pretty well where the various books came from,… — Clarence Darrow
No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My Ántonia. — H. L. Mencken
Perhaps the pleasure one feels in writing is not the infallible test of the literary value of a page; perhaps it is only a secondary… — Marcel Proust
The dramatic importance of climate changes to the world’s future has been dangerously underestimated by many, often because we have been lulled by modern technology… — Stephen Schneider
Some of the best stuff can be written out of dire times — Izzy Stradlin
Elisabeth Sheffield's new novel is multilayered, smart, beautifully written, and funny. I was taken in by the first paragraph and held firmly through the roller… — Percival Everett
The men and women, the weapons, the deerhunt all make a huge and fragile danger in John Bolger's novel The Hunters. There is care and… — Ron Carlson
Cherry Money Baby is fabulous in every sense of the word! It’s earthy and smart and moving, laugh-out-loud funny, surprising, inventive, suspenseful, and — Oh,… — Tim Wynne-Jones
Floyd Skloot’s Revertigo is a beautifully-written, moving account of one man’s off kilter life. Who would have imaged a memoir exploring months of extreme vertigo… — Dinty W. Moore
The Weird Sisters is a chronicle of real women, because it tells the truths of sisters. Eleanor Brown has written a compelling novel about love,… — Min Jin Lee
Everything I've ever done in my whole career, people might not know, I've never written anything down on paper. — Don Rickles
A sitcom is the closest thing for me to doing stage because you work in front of an audience, and if it's well written it… — Nathan Lane
If you want a favorite book, Orson Scott Card's 'Ender's Game'. You'll be hooked. I think he's written like twelve or thirteen. — Marisol Nichols
When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, 'I have arrived.' Because when you feel that you… — Yul Brynner
I swore an oath to uphold the laws on the books . Now, I know some people want me to bypass Congress and change the… — Barack Obama
King Lear is undoubtedly the greatest play ever written by Shakespeare — or anybody else for that matter. Hamlet is certainly great, but it doesn't… — Paul Scofield
The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters' disbelief in the veracity of the government spreads to the readers and the viewers. — Roger Mudd
Well I've written four beauty books as well. — Joan Collins
Anytime I audition for something, it's always a question of whether or not the people I'm auditioning for understand I'm an improviser and I like… — Adam Pally
The Bible was not written for entertainment purposes, so it's a real hodgepodge and a compendium of all kinds of stuff. — Robert Crumb
Although I’ve played a wide variety of roles, I’ve never had the chance to act in a story written specially for me. It’s a pity as they… — Grace Kelly
What's great about well-written material is, if you can shock with justifiable actions, that's the best. — Bryan Cranston
When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in… — Nathan Fillion
An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart. — Conrad Veidt

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