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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 be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.Simone De Beauvoir
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I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.Dodie Smith
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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. It's a book, when I need to be somewhere else. It's control, when I feel so out of control. It's healing, when everything seems pretty messed up. And it's fun, when life is just flat-out boring.Alysha Speer
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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.Nicole Krauss
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Question like a child, reason like an adult, and write like a sage.Criss Jami
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Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.Paula Danziger
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There are no lungs like the ones that breathe poetry.D. Antoinette Foy
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Camomille: Fallible men write books. God writes in sunlight and rivers and planets. Isn't the Universe a good book? I trust it above the printed kind.Mark Siegel
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She wrote love with her smile and magic with her eyes.Giovannie De Sadeleer
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Jesus Christ is the source–the only source–of meaning in life. He provides the only satisfactory explanation for why we’re here and where we’re going. Because of this good news, the final heartbeat for the Christian is not the mysterious conclusion to a meaningless existence. It is, rather, the grand beginning to a life that will never end. That same Lord is waiting to embrace and forgive anyone who comes to Him in humility and repentance. He is calling your name, just as He called the name of Pete Maravich. His promise of eternal life offers the only hope for humanity. If you have never met this Jesus, I suggest that you seek spiritual counsel from a Christian leader who can offer guidance. You can also write to me, if that would help. Thanks for reading along with me. I hope to meet you someday. If our paths don’t cross this side of heaven, I’ll be looking for you in that eternal city. By all means, Be there!.James C. Dobson
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They took one look at me, And hated my black face. They took one look at me, And decided on my fate. They took one look at me, And forced an unknown fear. They took one look at me, And caused the shed of tears. They took one look at me, And decided I was wrong. They took one look at me, And now I'm singing the slave mans song...NZuri Za Austin
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Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name of the person to whom the sentences are attributed.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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If you write then you are reborn because by writing about the moment, you can relive it for a second time.Kamand Kojouri
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Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We don't read and write poetry because it's cute.Tom Schulman
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When a poet settled down to write a poem, could he foresee the lines he would write? Did his head constantly spin with riddles and rhymes and was his only job to put them down? What if he couldn’t get them to make sense, and no one, not even the person he cared for most, could have pleasure in reading it? What would he do?Alysha Speer
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I never have time to write anymore. And when I do I only write about how I never have time. It's work and it's money and I've written more lists than songs lately. I stay up all night to do all these things I need to do, be all these things I want to be, playing with shadows in the darkness that shouldn't be able to exist. Empty bottles and cigarettes while watching the sunrise, why do I complain? I have it all, everything I ever asked for.Charlotte Eriksson
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If you ask a twenty-one-year-old poet whose poetry he likes, he might say, unblushing, "Nobody's, " In his youth, he has not yet understood that poets like poetry, and novelists like novels; he himself likes only the role, the thought of himself in a hat.Annie Dillard
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Writing poems is simply an excuse to remember You.Kamand Kojouri
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You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.Madeleine LEngle
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We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it to our readers to build them as best we can. Because somewhere out there is someone who needs that story. Someone who will grow up with a different landscape, who without that story will be a different person. And who with that story may have hope, or wisdom, or kindness, or comfort. And that is why we write.Neil Gaiman
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I write to find strength. I write to become the person that hides inside me. I write to light the way through the darkness for others. I write to be seen and heard. I write to be near those I love. I write by accident, promptings, purposefully and anywhere there is paper. I write because my heart speaks a different language that someone needs to hear. I write past the embarrassment of exposure. I write because hypocrisy doesn’t need answers, rather it needs questions to heal. I write myself out of nightmares. I write because I am nostalgic, romantic and demand happy endings. I write to remember. I write knowing conversations don’t always take place. I write because speaking can’t be reread. I write to sooth a mind that races. I write because you can play on the page like a child left alone in the sand. I write because my emotions belong to the moon; high tide, low tide. I write knowing I will fall on my words, but no one will say it was for very long. I write because I want to paint the world the way I see love should be. I write to provide a legacy. I write to make sense out of senselessness. I write knowing I will be killed by my own words, stabbed by critics, crucified by both misunderstanding and understanding. I write for the haters, the lovers, the lonely, the brokenhearted and the dreamers. I write because one day someone will tell me that my emotions were not a waste of time. I write because God loves stories. I write because one day I will be gone, but what I believed and felt will live on.Shannon L. Alder
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The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.Arthur Miller
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I am the perfect version of me.Besa Kosova
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Only write a story that only you can write.Alysha Speer
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Life is a sea of vibrant color. Jump in.A.D. Posey
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When a day goes by and I haven't written anything, I better have been doing something worth writing about.P.S. Bartlett
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Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare, or a witches sabbath or a portrait of the devil; but only a great painter can make such a thing really scare or ring true. That's because only a real artist knows the anatomy of the terrible, or the physiology of fear.H.P. Lovecraft
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Let your words be your voice. And let your voice be heard within the hearts of others.Anasia Nicole Hixon
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Always choose love over fear.A.D. Posey
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We are the thoughts we choose to keep.A.D. Posey
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The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration.Adam Johnson
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You have to believe that your voice can mean something. You have to believe that what you do matters. And you have to keep going even on days you can't find that belief. If you can't do it for yourself, you do it for all the other young souls who need to be shown that things are possible. That they too can do that thing they dream of. You do it despite the doubts and the struggles. You do it because it's what you came here to do. That's what makes an artist.Charlotte Eriksson
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If you can't write, read. If you can't read, walk. Or walk and read, then write.Joyce Rachelle
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Sometimes, when inspiration runs dry, I drink classical music until my words spill out.Kamand Kojouri
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I spent all nightweaving a poem for you to wear. You look so beautifulwhen you wear my light.Kamand Kojouri
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Illiteracy is simply the inability to read and write.Sunday Adelaja
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I began to write because of love. I wrote to understand what I felt and what I knew.Kamand Kojouri
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I write to understand what I know.Kamand Kojouri
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The longer the wondering, the longer the writing.Lailah Gifty Akita
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The gift of knowledge is empowering, but the gift of wisdom is life-changing.A.D. Posey
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Our knowledge is limited. However, reading augments our knowledge.Lailah Gifty Akita
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You can only write well, what you have experienced.Lailah Gifty Akita
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You can learn to write by writing.Lailah Gifty Akita
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My mother, who taught me how to read and write and home-schooled me for the first 12 years of my life, whose presence shaped me as much as her absence did, who imbibed in me the values of empathy and fearlessness and hard work, looks down on me today with great pride.Sharad Vivek Sagar
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Begin to write, your heart flow with sacred words.Lailah Gifty Akita
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You ought to write down your goals. It serves as a guidepost and gives strength for purposeful action.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Every child should be taught how to think, read and write.Lailah Gifty Akita
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If you fail an examination, it means you have not yet master the subject. With diligent study and understanding, you will succeed in passing the exams.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Education leads to intellectual life.Lailah Gifty Akita
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If you ought to know, educate yourself.Lailah Gifty Akita
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In the pages of a book, we are in paradise.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Everyone must be given the opportunity to think, read and write.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Every child must be taught how to think, read and write.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Every child ought to be educated.Lailah Gifty Akita
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You ought to stop everything and write the sacred-words as its flashes in your mind.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Sacred-thoughts flashes in your mind at sacred-time. If you don’t write it immediately, it will be forgotten.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Be daring to push your ideas forward.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Until you take a pen to write, then you will see the miracle of writing.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Life is a book. We write in everyday existence.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Curiosity is the art of creativity.Lailah Gifty Akita
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All the great treasures of life are hidden in a book.Lailah Gifty Akita
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We write to share our thoughts and our lives.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Until you begin to write, then you will see the beauty of writing.Lailah Gifty Akita
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I've always been shy physically. This in part tended to keep me from rushing into things, including relationships, headlong. Not rushing headlong, though I may have wanted to, but beginning to write stories about people, I drew near slowly; noting and guessing, apprehending, hoping, drawing my eventual conclusions out of my own heart, I did venture closer to where I wanted to go.Eudora Welty
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I wonderif you ever read my poemsand wish they were writtenfor you.Kamand Kojouri
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You can best write about your own experiences.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Write from the heart. A book without a pulse is like a person without a spirit." Linda Radke, President of Five Star PublicationsLinda F. Radke
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There is no greater feeling of accomplishment than to create a world that solely exists in your imagination and be able to pull someone into this hidden place inside of my thoughts. To make someone care for a person that has manifested from my dreams, to make them hate me for putting them in danger, and for them to ask to be taken on another journey with me when it is all said and done is why I write.Teresa Mummert
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Remain humble in your journey as an author and your audience will embrace you. Remain grateful for every publicity opportunity that comes your way, and the media will embrace you.Linda F. Radke
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Write what you know best. If you can't survive a cross-examination from a lawyer on the subject, you won't survive an interview with a journalist or anchorperson." Linda Radke, President of Five Star Publications.Linda F. Radke
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The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.Roger Ascham
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Why read the current generation of text books when you have the ability to research and write the next generation of text books.Steven Magee
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Poetry is jealous of you tonight, for as soon as I come to pen a few words, your perfume attacks me in the most civilised manner and I forget myself. I forget the poem. I forget the ...Kamand Kojouri
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I only wrote prose before I met you. My musings were superfluous and serious as well. But now the words dance with me. I sing with them and we create poetry.Kamand Kojouri
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If I had to choose between all the books in the world and you, then I would choose to read your body for the rest of my life.Kamand Kojouri
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I don't spend money on books. I write them myself.Ljupka Cvetanova
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Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes will become wet. You undress because you want the water to touch you. You want to completely immerse yourself in the feeling of the water and to emerge anew.Kamand Kojouri
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One of the most important thing is that you need to write down your goals and plansSunday Adelaja
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It is proved that those who have plans but do not record them, lose to those who have written plansSunday Adelaja
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To bring your dreams into reality, write down all details of your process from A-ZSunday Adelaja
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You have to write down what you really want to do in this life and then you have to write down what you have to do every day to achieve the goalSunday Adelaja
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You have to write down all your everyday stepsSunday Adelaja
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There are some writers who sweep us along so strongly in their current of energy-- Normal mailer, Tom Wolfe, Toni Morrison, William F. Buckley, Jr., Hunter Thompson, David Foster Wallace, Dave Eggers--that we assume that when they go to work the words just flow. Nobody thinks of the effort they made every morning to turn on the switch. You also have to turn on the switch. Nobody is going to do it for you.William Zinsser
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Always have class but always kick ass.A.D. Posey
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Devote yourself to reading, learning and writing.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Write your sacred story.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Tickle my heart with your pen. Write me for all to read. Bind our love inside a book. Make me your poetry.NZuri Za Austin
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I was mistaken when I said you live in my heart. How absurd I was when you live in my fingertips so that everything I touch is you. How foolish I was when you live in my toes so that everywhere I go there's you. How senseless of me to say you live in my heart when you breathe in my lungs, walk on my mind, and drink in my mouth. I came to pen another poem for you, but even every unwritten poem is you.Kamand Kojouri
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I write because the security of your love allows me to develop my craft without concerning myself with trivialities – as if your love could be any more complete. But I write, in the first place, because of you, my muse. I write for your green eyes to glance at my humble words and for the pleasure of hearing you utter them.Kamand Kojouri
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I came to pen another poem for you, but even every unwritten poem is you.Kamand Kojouri
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Write as much as you can. Read as much as you can. Use the library and the internet carefully for research and talk to people about things that matter. If you have an idea in your head talk it to people as a normal conversation, to get their natural opinions. And don’t forget to jot down discreetly any new ideas you get from people. God may use other people to convey messages to you, that may add more information to the ideas you already have.Enock Maregesi
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Novelists and the literary world play an important part in shaping languages. The Swahili they write influence the readers and their languages. The literary obstacle in Tanzania is not that people do not read, but that they don’t read because there are no interesting writers.Enock Maregesi
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Every sword that was dripping the blood became a pen. Every word that was written in it became a poetry.Akshay Vasu
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Who am I? I'm just a writer. I write things down. I walk through your dreams and invent the future. Sure, I sink the boat of love, but that comes later. And yes, I swallow glass, but that comes later.Richard Siken
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A fleeting second on someone's news feed, No dearth of meanings for those who read, Not my stories but 'tis what I think, I say I don't write poems, I just write dreams.Sanhita Baruah
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You write poems with your fingertips And I keep listening to the songs written on my skin By some distant dream, similar words But the verses never meet...Sanhita Baruah
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Comfort yields complacency. Break free.A.D. Posey
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What is life? Life is living in this moment, experiencing and experimenting but experience isn’t life. Life is reflecting and meditating but reflection isn’t life. Life is helping and guiding but philanthropy isn’t life. Life is eating and drinking but food isn’t life. Life is reading and dancing but art isn’t life. Life is kissing and pleasuring but sex isn’t life. Life is winning and losing but competition isn’t life. Life is loving and caring but love isn’t life. Life is birthing and nurturing but children aren’t life. Life is letting go and surrendering but death isn’t life. Life is all these things but all these things aren’t life. Life is always more.Kamand Kojouri
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Poets, you always write about women worth dying for. Write, for a change, something about the ones worth living for!Ljupka Cvetanova