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“I prefer not to.”

— E.L. Konigsburg

“We do not choose our destinies.”

— George R.R. Martin

“No one enjoys being talked down to, but I have a particular aversion to it.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

“But there is nothing interesting about being unprepared.”

— Michelle Moran

“I reserve hatred for a select few. And even then, I’m ashamed of it.”

— Jim Melvin

“I am pretty unextraordinary.” “I reject that out of hand. Think of something you like. The first thing that comes to mind.”

— John Green

“Write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you are writing, and aren't writing particularly well.”

— Agatha Christie

“The great chasm between the thing I say, & the thing I would say, wd be quite dispiriting to me, in spite even of…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Oh, do not scowl at me, reader, I do not intend to convey the impression that I did not manage to be happy.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“There's nothing as painful as rejection without correction. It's like direction without destination.”

— Kabelo Mabona

“There are few things more discomfiting than a spontaneous outburst of genuine decency from someone you’re determined to dislike for no good reason.”

— Gregory David Roberts

“There are some feelings, and actions, for which words are utterly useless.”

— James Patterson