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.
Bartolomé de las Casas
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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.
Zadie Smith
I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
P. J. O'Rourke
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
I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.
Wayne Dyer
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
Octavia E. Butler
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
Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.
Carl Clinton Van Doren
I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.
Barbara Mertz
I write in the studio.
Macy Gray
I will always, forever, write songs, and wherever they're meant to be is where they'll be.
Bebe Rexha
That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.
Karin Slaughter
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
