Bartolomé de las Casas Quotes
I write ... in order to help ensure that the teeming millions in the New World, for whose sins Christ gave His life, do not continue to die in ignorance, but rather are brought to knowledge of God and thereby saved.
Quotes to Explore
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I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
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I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
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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.
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I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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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.
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My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
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I write romance because I love to read romance.
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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
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My method is, I just sit down and write a book.
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I write to escape; to escape poverty.
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I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.
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Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.
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I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.
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I write in the studio.
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I will always, forever, write songs, and wherever they're meant to be is where they'll be.
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That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.
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History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
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I sometimes need to write things which I cannot completely control but which therefore prove that what is in me is stronger than I am.
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I would live in a world of Christ-like humans, but not one full of Christians, may God forgive me.
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The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
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Most attorneys practice law because it gives them a grand and glorious feeling. You give them a grand - and they feel glorious.
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I write ... in order to help ensure that the teeming millions in the New World, for whose sins Christ gave His life, do not continue to die in ignorance, but rather are brought to knowledge of God and thereby saved.
