Jane Austen Quotes
And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.
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 really tend to write in retrospect.
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I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
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I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.
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I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.
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I write romance because I love to read romance.
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I really don't have anything urgent to say, and I think you shouldn't write unless you have something urgent to say. Sometimes that troubles me, and sometimes I don't really care.
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I was always falling in love at a very young age - kindergarten is when I can remember. There was always a crush. And when I was in sixth grade, I started picking up guitar, so I started wanting to write about it and sing about it.
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I just write mechanical things.
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I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.
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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.
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As long as they are working, they should be legalized. I admire so much each and every migrant. They are the most loyal workers in the U.S. economy. They build the homes of those who are attacking them.
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If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
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I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.
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Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.
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I like PETA as a group for many reasons, but one of the reasons that I admire them is that they say and do the things that other groups won't do.
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If you can write it, I can be it.
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I write to escape; to escape poverty.
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I like people who are as unlike me as possible, which is not an expression of self disgust or self hatred, but it's just that you know you obviously particularly admire things that you recognize yourself as not having.
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Cofounder relationships are among the most important in the entire company.
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.
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Why did I become a writer? A bird's feather on my windowpane in winter and all at once there arose in my heart a battle of embers never to subside again.
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And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.
