I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to...
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Simone De Beauvoir
I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.
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Dodie Smith
I choose to write because it's perfect for me. It's an escape, a place I can go to hide. It's a friend, when I feel out casted from everyone else. It's a journal, when the only story I can tell is my own. <span style="margin:15px;...
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Alysha Speer
That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox.
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Nicole Krauss
Question like a child, reason like an adult, and write like a sage.
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Criss Jami
More Quotes By Christian Bauman
Writing is the only art form where a good number of the artists make a slice of their living criticizing one another in print, in public.
Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers.
Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read.
Harold Bloom weeps for me.
I write for the same reason I read: because it's all there is for me.
