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• I've always written down how I feel.

  Adele

  Feels

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• Steve Dallas...a frat-boy lawyer who I knew in school. He's never written me. I suspect he was shot by an annoyed girlfriend, which has saved me many legal fees.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Girlfriend, School, Boys

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• A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Mean, Political, Social

  New York Times, October 22, 1964.

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• Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader.

  Katherine Paterson

  Reading, Imagination, Creative

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• I could have written a story about a well-adjusted family. Ned Stark comes down to King’s Landing and takes over and solves all their problems. Would that have been as exciting?

  George R. R. Martin

  Kings, Stories, Problem

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• Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Stronger, Oral Tradition, Way

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• If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?”'afterwards than before There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Wise, Book, Agony

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.71, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• As long as woman regards the Bible as the charter of her rights, she will be the slave of man. The bible was not written by a woman. Within its leaves there is nothing but humiliation and shame for her.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Rights, Long

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• History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.

  Peter Drucker

  Motivated, Has Beens

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• But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film.

  Terri Windling

  Stronger, Film, Written Word

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• I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

  Brené Brown

  Struggle, Names, People

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, andLead”, p.171, Penguin

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• I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, and can claim to know more about interesting children than most.

  Enid Blyton

  Children, Book, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.

  Abraham Verghese

  Shows, Love To Read, Willing

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• I had never thought about what it might mean to be deaf, to be deprived of language, or to have a remarkable language (and community and culture) of one’s own. Up to this point, I had mostly thought and written about the problems of individuals–here I was to encounter an entire community.

  Oliver Sacks

  Mean, Community, Encounters

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• And then the really awful thing is that at the end of the day after crying and experiencing things, then you look at what you've written and you're like, 'Hmm, there's half a page that's good here.' Then you throw out everything else.

  Zoe Kazan

  The End Of The Day, Looks, Half

  "The Exploding Girl Blows Up". Interview with Meryl Cates, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 20, 2011.

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• Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations anything but its simpler findings.

  Charlton Laird

  Civilization, Generations, Succeed

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• I begin to perceive that I am a woman. What that is, heaven knows... the philosophy is yet to be written, there is a world to be explored.

  Pam Gems

  Philosophy, Heaven, World

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• All my high school papers were written in the rare book room.

  Jim Sanborn

  Book, School, Paper

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• The biography I've written about Wendy Wasserstein will almost invariably be different than the one anyone else would write.

  Julie Salamon

  Writing, Different, Biographies

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• If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.

  Buzz Bissinger

  Believe, Should, Criticize

  "Buzz Bissinger’s Trip". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2012.

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• Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.

  Adam Clymer

  Morning, Book, Writing

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• I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons.

  Paul Conrad

  Ideas, Cartoon, Readership

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• I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.

  Iris DeMent

  Causes, Feels

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• I've had offers to sign a record deal, but the people I've talked to have wanted to package me and have me meet with songwriters who've written stuff for Whitney Houston, that sort of thing. That's not at all my style.

  Lukas Haas

  People, Style, Records

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Man Who Never Was,' by Ewen Montagu, remains the best book about wartime espionage written by an active participant - incomplete, and dry in parts, it nonetheless summons up the ingenuity and sheer eccentricity of those who played this strange and dangerous game.

  Ben Macintyre

  Book, Men, Games

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