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Madeleine L'Engle
"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children."
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Dodie Smith
"I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life."
— Dodie Smith (I Capture the Castle)
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Besa Kosova
"Writers write while dreamers procastinate. "
— Besa Kosova
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Dodie Smith
"It is rather exciting to write by moonlight."
— Dodie Smith (I Capture the Castle)
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Besa Kosova
"I wasn't born to cook or clean,
but to read and write,
if you don't like me the way I am,
then go fly a kite."
— Besa Kosova
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"When I write, I can be heard. And known. But nobody has to look at me. Nobody has to see me at all."
— Nora Raleigh Baskin (Anything But Typical)
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"Sanchez looked at me and we locked eyes a second too long. There was nothing I could do about it. The signal went out. A moment of clear, silent hostility passed between us as hotly charged and unintentional as a thousand-volt arc through a squirrel."
— Rick Riordan in Last King of Texas
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"I have to do this, as long as it is at all possible; for if those who are obliged to look after commas had always made sure they were in the right place, then Shanghai would not be burning."
— Karl Kraus
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"So write! Feel the power in your finger tips The compelling urge to write about good and evil!!!! Write, I say, write!!!"
— me leah a
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Alberto Manguel
"In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories. "
— Alberto Manguel (The Library at Night)
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Christian Bauman
"I write for the same reason I read: because it's all there is for me."
— Christian Bauman
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Michelle Richmond
"To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you. "
— Michelle Richmond
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"For me, I think it was a little easier to write thinking that nobody was listening."
— Dan Kennedy
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Besa Kosova
"I am the perfect version of me."
— Besa Kosova
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Gail Carson Levine
"When I write, I make discoveries about my feelings."
— Gail Carson Levine (Writing Magic: Creating Stories that Fly)
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"So write! Feel the power in your finger tips The compelling urge to write about good and evil!!!! Write, I say, write!!!"
— me leah a
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"So write! Feel the power in your finger tips The compelling urge to write about good and evil!!!! Write, I say, write!!!"
— me leah a
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"Only write a story that only you can write."
— Alysha Speer
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Rui M.
"I live well with very little things but not without my dignity"
— Rui M.
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"Life is an adventure! So live it up!"
— LM Preston (Explorer X - Alpha)
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Adam Johnson
"The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration."
— Adam Johnson
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Alysha Speer
"When a poet settled down to write a poem, could he foresee the lines he would write? Did his head constantly spin with riddles and rhymes and was his only job to put them down? What if he couldn’t get them to make sense, and no one, not even the person he cared for most, could have pleasure in reading it? What would he do?"
— Alysha Speer (Sharden)
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William Saroyan
"You write a hit play the same way you write a flop"
— William Saroyan
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