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Well, it's true that I've never been solitary, although I spend a lot of time alone. I've never felt lonely or been shy.
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When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.
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I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.


Anthony Davis
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The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then your integrity and godly behavior in an unbelieving world will make others long to know the Lord.
Charles Stanley
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
Walter Dean Myers
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I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that.


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My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opportunity to tell their own stories, so I hope that my writing won't be affected too much by my personal life.
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The one thing a lifetime in the newspaper business teaches you is pace - you spend all your time trying to make sure that the reader's going to finish what you're writing.
Carl Hiaasen
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When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.
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Science of mind teaches you how to realize how much control you have over your own life. It teaches you that we have the ability to change our lives at any point we choose.
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The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.


Randy Wayne White
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I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence.


Ewan McGregor
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You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your own way.
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You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.


Douglas Coupland
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I like to write about the solitary things people do. Humans seem to function best when they're alone.
Thomas McGuane
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I think theatre to some extent is always about telling stories, isn't it, and I think what I've learned is that freedom comes when you tell your story; freedom comes when you tell the truth.
Eve Ensler
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I started writing the one-sentence stories when I was translating 'Swann's Way.' There were two reasons. I had almost no time to do my own writing, but didn't want to stop. And it was a reaction to Proust's very long sentences.
Lydia Davis
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As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison, we continue to release, our media partners continued to write stories. The important revelations from this material continue to come out. We have approximately 2,000 cables into 250,000.
Julian Assange
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My own way of writing is very meditated and, despite my reputation, rather slow-moving. So I do spend a good deal of time contemplating endings. The final ending is usually arrived at simply by intuition.
Joyce Carol Oates
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It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.
Paul Theroux
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