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• I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.

  Abraham Verghese

  Shows, Love To Read, Willing

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• Sometimes I wonder if I'm a character being written, or if I'm writing myself.

  Marilyn Manson

  Writing, Character, Sometimes

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• I had never thought about what it might mean to be deaf, to be deprived of language, or to have a remarkable language (and community and culture) of one’s own. Up to this point, I had mostly thought and written about the problems of individuals–here I was to encounter an entire community.

  Oliver Sacks

  Mean, Community, Encounters

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• And then the really awful thing is that at the end of the day after crying and experiencing things, then you look at what you've written and you're like, 'Hmm, there's half a page that's good here.' Then you throw out everything else.

  Zoe Kazan

  The End Of The Day, Looks, Half

  "The Exploding Girl Blows Up". Interview with Meryl Cates, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 20, 2011.

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• I think it takes a lot of desire because I think a lot of people who've never written books don't know quite how hard it is to stick with, to put in the amount of time and just make the commitment to just sit there every day and do it while everybody else is out having fun.

  Ted Bell

  Fun, Book, Commitment

  "Adventures on the High Seas". Interview with Demarian Williams, www.scholastic.com.

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• I am really looking for a chance to direct. I feel like that's kind of the next frontier for me. I know that it's really hard to do, but I feel like I want to have a chance to try and translate something I've written and try and get a tone across.

  Dana Fox

  Trying, Next, Tone

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• For some men, nothing is Written unless they Write it.

  Omar Sharif

  Writing, Men, Arabia

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• The best introduction by far to representation of the human figure in art. The Nude is a beautifully written work of sophisticated connoisseurship that analyzes art in its own terms rather than imposing strident, politicized categories on it. It outlines the major body types, male and female, in Western art and, via a wealth of illustrations, trains the reader's eye to detect and evaluate proportion. This book reveres art

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Book, Eye

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• I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.

  Sara Gruen

  Book, Want, Way

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• Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations anything but its simpler findings.

  Charlton Laird

  Civilization, Generations, Succeed

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• I begin to perceive that I am a woman. What that is, heaven knows... the philosophy is yet to be written, there is a world to be explored.

  Pam Gems

  Philosophy, Heaven, World

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• All my high school papers were written in the rare book room.

  Jim Sanborn

  Book, School, Paper

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• The biography I've written about Wendy Wasserstein will almost invariably be different than the one anyone else would write.

  Julie Salamon

  Writing, Different, Biographies

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• Every time I sit in the audience and watch a show that I have been involved with, it is such an amazing feeling to see all those people around me, knowing they are actually watching and enjoying something I have written.

  Bjorn Ulvaeus

  Knowing, People, Feelings

  "Bjorn Ulvaeus: ABBA star behind Mamma Mia". Interview with Gisella Deputato, www.cnn.com. September 3, 2009.

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• I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television.

  Roone Arledge

  Eye, Thinking, Television

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• If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.

  Buzz Bissinger

  Believe, Should, Criticize

  "Buzz Bissinger’s Trip". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2012.

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• Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.

  Adam Clymer

  Morning, Book, Writing

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• Some very plausible stuff is being written by women in a way that most men are not doing.

  Amy Clampitt

  Men, Stuff, Way

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• I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons.

  Paul Conrad

  Ideas, Cartoon, Readership

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• I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.

  Iris DeMent

  Causes, Feels

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• The really successful work in England tends to be working-class writers telling working-class stories. The film industry has been slow to wake up to that, for a variety of reasons. It still shocks me how few films are written or made in England about working-class life, given that those are the people who go to movies.

  Stephen Daldry

  Successful, Class, People

  "Stephen Daldry Dances to Success with 'Billy Elliot'". Interview with Andy Bailey, www.indiewire.com. October 17, 2000.

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• Well, there are three different processes of making a film, of course. They're sort of re-written three times. You write it to start with, and then you shoot it and you re-write it while shooting and you sort of re-write it as you edit.

  Stephen Daldry

  Writing, Different, Three

  "RT Interview: Reading The Reader with Stephen Daldry". editorial.rottentomatoes.com. February 17, 2009.

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• It is only what is written upon the soul of man that will survive the wreck of time.

  Francis James Grimke

  Men, Soul, Wrecks

  Francis James Grimké (1942). “The Works of Francis J. Grimke,̀: Edited by Carter G. Woodson...”

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• I've had offers to sign a record deal, but the people I've talked to have wanted to package me and have me meet with songwriters who've written stuff for Whitney Houston, that sort of thing. That's not at all my style.

  Lukas Haas

  People, Style, Records

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Man Who Never Was,' by Ewen Montagu, remains the best book about wartime espionage written by an active participant - incomplete, and dry in parts, it nonetheless summons up the ingenuity and sheer eccentricity of those who played this strange and dangerous game.

  Ben Macintyre

  Book, Men, Games

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