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You think you choose the subjects of your books. But sometimes, in ways you don't know, the books choose you.
J. R. Moehringer
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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.


Salman Rushdie
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I have to live my books before I write them.


Dave Ramsey
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I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.


Wayne Dyer
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I have a lot of books I want to write.


Douglas Brinkley
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I write entertainment. There are some books you read but don't inhale. There are books that will change your life.
Michael Robotham
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I just try to write entertaining books that are easily identifiable.


J. A. Konrath
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I try to write the kind of books I like to read.


Isabel Allende
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That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I will pick and choose.
Jeffrey Eugenides
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For me, who loves to draw and who loves to write and cannot choose between one or the other, the comic is the best form.
Marjane Satrapi
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And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music, and I make programs.
Victoria de los Angeles
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.


G. H. Hardy
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I say, 'I write romance, women's fiction, chick lit.' I think it all fits very comfortably under the same umbrella. Basically, I write books for women - books about relationships: books that make you laugh and sometimes make you cry a little.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.


Barbara Mertz
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But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
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Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.
Lady Gaga
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Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.


Frank Lloyd Wright
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I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.


Patrick deWitt
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I like writing. I get cranky when I can't. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.
Terry Pratchett
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Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.
Margaret Thatcher