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• I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day.

  Mary MacLane

  Book, Writing, Years

  Mary MacLane (2014). “Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader”, p.24, Petrarca Press

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• Here is the operating motto of the Obama White House: 'So let it be written, so let it be done!' Like Yul Brynner's Pharaoh Ramses character in Cecil B. DeMille's 'The Ten Commandments,' the demander in chief stands with arms akimbo issuing daily edicts to his constitution-subverting minions.

  Michelle Malkin

  Character, White, House

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• Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate how different people had written about motherhood, and childhood.

  Natalie Merchant

  Motherhood, People, Giving

  "Natalie Merchant: mother superior" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. July 08, 2010.

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• All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.

  Norman MacCaig

  Writing, People, Literature

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• I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At the time, when I sort of knew him, he was recording a song a day. I wondered if I could do that. So I wrote it.

  Randy Newman

  Song, If I Could, Ifs

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• I've written some great things. That's a gift, but there's consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

  Frank Ocean

  Suffering, Great Work, Yeah

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• To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's also to feel, quite powerfully, that you're not allowed to descend into the deepest fathom of your grief - that to do so would be taboo somehow.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Grief, Over You, Faces

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• I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.

  Tea Obreht

  Animal, Trying, Process

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• The Holy Spirit is no skeptic. He has written neither doubt nor mere opinion into our hearts, but rather solid assurances, which are more sure and solid than all experience and even life itself.

  Martin Luther

  Heart, Doubt, Spirit

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• If you can stand to wait 24 hours before you decide the fate of what you have written - either good or bad - you're more likely to see that invisible thing that is invisible for the first few days in any new writing. We just can't know what all is in a sentence until there are several sentences to follow it. Pages of writing need more pages in order to be known, chapters need more chapters.

  Lynda Barry

  Writing, Fate, Order

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• The full history of the interlocking participation of the Imperial German Government and international finance in the destruction of the Russian Empire is not yet written...It is not a mere coincidence that at the notorious meeting held at Stockholm in 1916, between the former Russian Minister of the Interior, Protopopoff, and the German Agents, the German Foreign Office was represented by Mr. Warburg, whose two brothers were members of the international banking firm, Kuhn, Loeb and Company, of which the late Mr. Jacob Schiff was a senior member.

  Boris Brasol

  Senior, Brother, Government

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• Catch me on a good day, I think half of my books aren't too bad. Catch me on a bad day, I think I've never written a good line.

  Dennis Lehane

  Book, Good Day, Bad Day

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• I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.

  Tamora Pierce

  Writing, Thinking, Stories

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• I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and will be doing more writing and do at least two assignments a year besides my writing.

  Gordon Parks

  Writing, Years, Two

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• I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

  Manuel Puig

  Book, Literature, Study

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• I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

  Manuel Puig

  Literature, Novel, Convince

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• There's a lot of artists whose contracts are written in such a way that they do not get paid for what's happening on streaming services.

  Sean Parker

  Artist, Way, Streaming

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• The Wire,' I was such a fan of that show the first season - I think that's the best-written show on TV.

  Amy Ryan

  Thinking, Wire, Fans

  "Amy Ryan" with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. February 21, 2008.

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• I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.

  Ian Rankin

  Dad, Reading, Home

  "Gothic Scot". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2001.

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• I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.

  Nora Roberts

  Writing, Thinking, Stories

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• I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.

  Sally Ride

  Television, Made, Memoir

  "A Conversation With Sally Ride; Painful Questions From an Ex-astronaut" by Claudia Dreifus, www.nytimes.com. August 26, 2003.

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• But everything written has style. The list of ingredients on the side of a cornflakes box has style. And everything literary has literary style. And style is integral to a work. How something is told correlates with - more - makes what's being told. A story is its style.

  Ali Smith

  Style, Ingredients, Lists

  Ali Smith: Style vs content? Novelists should approach their art with an eye to what the story asks, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2012.

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• I liked to think I had written 'scripts' when I was in high school, but looking back at them, they were about thirty pages of wannabe-Mamet dialogue with a staple through them.

  Lorene Scafaria

  School, Thinking, Pages

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as technical objects when they're being written. Or at least they do for me. They're the result of thousands of decisions made at speed during revision.

  George Saunders

  Decision, Stories, Revision

  "On 'Tenth of December': an interview with George Saunders". Interview with Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. January 24, 2013.

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• It is not our job to apply laws that have not yet been written.

  John Paul Stevens

  Jobs, Law

  "Retiring justice an 'unexpected liberal,' negotiator". CNN Wire Staff, www.cnn.com. April 9, 2010.

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