George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust - or less than dust - in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing.
Carl Sagan
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In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.
Patrick O'Brian
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If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.
Joanne Rowling
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
Octavia E. Butler
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Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.
Gabrielle Zevin
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I write romance because I love to read romance.
Rachel Gibson
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I just write mechanical things.
Barry Zito
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My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
Wendi Deng Murdoch
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I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse.
Octavia Spencer
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
L. E. Modesitt
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Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.
Carl Clinton Van Doren
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I write in the studio.
Macy Gray
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Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what is nurturing.
Patricia MacLachlan
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I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.
Taslima Nasrin
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I have a nice little movie career, and I write plays and do my act.
Taylor Negron
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At least I can write.
R. L. Stine
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The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.
Victor Hugo
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I have been to Kashmir many times, especially with my family, in the '70s.
Zubin Mehta
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Here (Jerusalem), tears do not weaken the eyes, they only polish and shine the hardness of faces like stone.
Yehuda Amichai
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There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Refrain from following the example of those whose craving is for attention, not their own improvement.
Seneca the Younger
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I always try to honor a character by being honest and truthful to who they are, in spite of my own personality and beliefs.
Jasmine Guy
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Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.
George Bernard Shaw