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To whom much is given, much is required - not expected, but required.


Andrew Young
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As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter filled with self-doubt is not a good idea.
Jo Nesbo
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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.


Thomas Mann
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I feel non-stop Brit shame!


John Oliver
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I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.


Maya Angelou
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It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers.


Neil Gaiman
It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone else.
Samuel Rogers
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As a writer given to the old formalities of rhyme and meter, I sometimes feel endangered these days.


X. J. Kennedy
Starting with 'Thirteen,' my known technique is to cast the lead, then find someone with whom they have incredible chemistry.
Catherine Hardwicke
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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.


Henry Miller
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Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions.
Malcolm Fraser
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I never think that any writer can teach someone how to write.


Mary Balogh
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Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker.
Lisa Ling
Reading a newspaper is like reading someone's letters, as opposed to a biography or a history. The writer really does not know what will happen. A novelist needs to feel what that is like.
A. S. Byatt
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I like the sound a typewriter makes.


Paul Auster
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No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.
Jacques Derrida
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The writer is someone who tears himself to pieces in order to liberate his neighbor.


Italo Calvino
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I still use a typewriter from time to time, but because I can't type as well as I used to, I really don't use one very much.
William Jay Smith
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It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight.


Audrey Tautou
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I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.


P. G. Wodehouse
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