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Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.
- David Ben Gurion
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
- Lord Byron
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Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
- Jack Lynch
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education -- sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
- E. B. White
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In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.
- Pearl S. Buck
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I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.
- Pearl S. Buck
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The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.
- Elizabeth Drew
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It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time, and one goes on more steadily. Doubts creep in. Then one becomes resigned. Determination not to give in, and the sense of an impending shape keep one at it more than anything.
- Virginia Woolf
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If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
- Isaac Asimov
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Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
- Gloria Steinem
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Women do not always have to write about women, or gay men about gay men. Indeed, something good and new might happen if they did not.
- Kathryn Hughes
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Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
- Flannery O'Conner
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All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by ... religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.
The Seduction of the Spirit, 1973
- Harvey Cox
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Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods -- or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.
- Willa Cather
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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