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Once someone gave me a picture and I wrote 'Do good in school.' I looked up and the guy was 78 years old — Casey Stengel
There is no security, no assurance that because we wrote something good two months ago, we will do it again. Actually, every time we begin,… — Natalie Goldberg
Poe wrote like a drunkard and a man who is not accustomed to pay his debts. — Arthur Twining Hadley
Even though other people wrote my songs I put my stamp on them. I have a connection, but there is no truer connection than an… — Justin Guarini
I wrote in the War of Art that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better. — Steven Pressfield
I wrote about drugs, and I didn't think I was being unsafe or careless by writing about them. I didn't want fans to think heroin… — Layne Staley
I lived to write, and wrote to live. — Samuel Rogers
I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to… — Lisa Alther
My own experience of growing up as a Roman Catholic in Scotland has led me to fear independence in Scotland. The possibility of Scotland being… — George Galloway
There are some writers who wrote too much. There are others who wrote enough. There are yet others who wrote nothing like enough to satisfy… — Margaret Drabble
It is recorded how towards the end of the eighteenth century a Muslim visitor to England was taken to see the House of Commons at… — Margaret Thatcher
Cooper wrote a novel which is absolutely indistinguishable from Austen, completely from a female point of view, completely English, no sense that he was an… — Leslie Fiedler
I wrote my songs despite the fact that I was a drunk, not because of it — Warren Zevon
The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it. — William Golding
There were epochs in the history of humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote the sacred books, universal books, the codes,… — Augusto Roa Bastos
To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one… — Vincent Van Gogh
Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. — Eudora Welty
My theory is that I decided to be a writer when I was about seven, but of course it is not as simple as that.… — Margaret Mahy
For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now… — August Wilson
For ten centuries Christianity, armed with the omnipotence of the Church and State and opposed by no competition, was able to deprave, debase, and falsify… — Mikhail Bakunin

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