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 Beverly Cleary
If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
Tiddlywinks, tiddlywinks, I want to play tiddlywinks, " chanted Ramona, shaking her head back and forth.
The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else--grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.
