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I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing.


Alistair Maclean
It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.
Cesar Chavez
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You become a great writer by writing.


Peter Thiel
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Having grown up in Bombay, from the day you're born, you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be.
Freida Pinto
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Is Billy Idol just doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born that way?


Freddie Mercury
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I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.


Paulo Coelho
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The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.


Friedrich Nietzsche
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Vampires aren't made - they're just born that way, and no one knows why. They're sort of a race unto themselves.
Holly Black
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Just writing a lot doesn't necessarily make you a better writer. You have to hear yourself as a writer, and the best way to do that is to read your writing out loud.
Christopher Paolini
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You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.
Mario Vargas Llosa
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What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a kind of science fantasy. It's a vampire story - but my vampires are biological vampires. They didn't become vampires because someone bit them; they were born that way.
Octavia Butler
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The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.


Marianne Faithfull
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Dreamers become writers, and for me, being a published writer is a dream come true.


David A. Adler
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It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter.
Brian Aldiss
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You have to be born a sex symbol. You don't become one. If you're born with it, you'll have it even when you're 100 years old.
Sophia Loren
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The writer works in a lonely way.


Irwin Shaw
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It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.
Jim Bishop
A writer's obligation is to invent: to go beyond what did happen and to look at what could have happened but didn't. Fiction writers are born liars.
Tim O'Brien
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You never choose the way that you're raised, it's just the way that you were raised, but you do get to a certain age where you're in a position to question the expectations of you and the way that you've been formed by your surroundings.
Mia Wasikowska
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I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous.
Rachel Sklar
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