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[Newton wrote to Halley ... that he would not give Hooke any credit] That, alas, is vanity. You find it in so many scientists. You… — Albert Einstein
Olive Ann describes Sanna as 'a perfectionist and a worrier.' She is obsessed with the idea of finding happiness, and for her, as Olive ann… — Olive Ann Burns
I was so mad at my agent. I had polished and polished and polished [the play], and he referred to it as a draft. I… — Cynthia Ozick
. . . I wrote a letter to Thomas Pynchon asking, Can I have your permission to try to make an [adaptation] of your book?… — Laurie Anderson
. . . the whole idea of WHAT HAPPENED WAS.... is not about dating. It is more about people who are not committed to who… — Tom Noonan
I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it… — J. Milton Hayes
Jacob wrote that the true poet 'is like a man who is happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he is allowed to look at leaves… — Jacob Grimm
When Cynthia smiles, said young Bingo, the skies are blue; the world takes on a roseate hue; birds in the garden trill and sing, and… — P.G. Wodehouse
I never waited for my Irish Cream coffee to be the right temperature, with a storm happening outside and my fireplace crackling ... I wrote… — Stephen J. Cannell
Listen to us rather than to Arkady Mamontov talking about us. Don't twist and distort everything we say. Let us enter into dialogue and contact… — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
Ah, yes! I wrote the "Purple Cow" - I'm sorry, now, I wrote it! But I can tell you anyhow, I'll kill you if you… — Gelett Burgess
George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar. — Oscar Wilde
I just Fell Down the Stairs Holding a Guitar and Accidentally Wrote a One Direction Song — Will Ferrell
Looking back at his career, Mr. Rustin, a Quaker, once wrote: â€˜The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means;… — Bayard Rustin
You can never read your own book with the innocent anticipation that comes with that first delicious page of a new book, because you wrote… — Margaret Atwood
In New York I was always so scared of saying that I wrote fiction. It just seemed like, 'Who am I to dare to do… — Jhumpa Lahiri
My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is… — Frederik Pohl
People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece. — Richard Rodney Bennett
Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays. — James Merrill
You have to write a lot. And you have to rewrite what you wrote a lot more. — Holly Black

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