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8803 Writer Quotes

I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

Live Forever Intend Possible
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You don't need to dim anyone's light to shine brighter

Dim Light Shine Need
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Religion will be the death of many. Church is not a building

Religion Death Church Building
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Awards are great...but never the validation for this job. Celebrate the winners and get them next time.

Awards Great Never Validation
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Little girls with dreams, become women with visions.
Little Girls Dreams Women
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Blocking off people’s negative vibe(s) is self-preservation. Your mental health is important. We can’t all be mad.

Blocking Mental health Negative Vibe
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When you are in love it shows, so start loving LIFE, your JOB, and those around you. It makes a huge difference.

Love Loving Life Job Difference
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A lot can change in a second, a minute, a day, a week, a month and in a year, just try to hang in there a little longer. I’m rooting for you.

Change Second A day Rooting
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Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up. Didn’t work out? Try again, again, and again.

Champion Contender Give up Try again
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How do you want others to love you if you don’t love yourself FIRST? Don’t be afraid to put you first.

Love Yourself Afraid You first
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No day is late to change whatever you don't like about you
Change Day Late About you
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The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

Young Aspiration Pass Old
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
Little Inaccuracy Saves Explanation
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I'm living so far beyond my means that we may almost be said to be living apart.

Living Means Apart
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To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.
Clever Argues Evening
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There is no easy in the world neither hard everything is the same in a way.

Easy World Hard Same
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..when once you have taken the Impossible into your calculations its possibilities become practically limitless...
Impossible Calculations Practically Limitless
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Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.

Blameless Brightened Blazing Indiscretions
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Never be a pioneer. It's the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.
Never Pioneer Christian Lion
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When one has nothing left to one but memories, one guards and dusts them with especial care

Nothing Left Memories Guards
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My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.
Based Books Documentary Evidence
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The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.

Across Art Art Form Authentic
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The biographical novel sets out to document this truth, for character is plot, character development is action, and character fulfillment is resolution.

Action Character Character Development Development
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There's nothing romantic about my work... I don't believe in inspiration. I believe that you get to your desk, you stay there, you work, you think of nothing else. You write and you write, and in the end, you write something good.

About Believe Desk Else
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My goal always is to tell a universal story, meaning it's about a person who has an idea, a vision, a dream, an ambition to make the world somewhat less chaotic.

About Always Ambition Chaotic
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Even if there is endless documentation, it would be impossible to know what a man thought inside his own mind... This is where the novelist's creative imagination has to take over.

Creative Documentation Endless Eve
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I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.

Art Dead Exhibit Feet
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Strange story about Degas. He hated women, didn't want to be with them. Yet he spent much of his life painting them. He had seen his father maltreat his mother, must have had a deep fear that he'd do the same thing.

About Deep Father Fear
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An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.

Ability Absolutely Almost Both
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Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.

Contradictory Different Even Every
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I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.
Am Critics Forced I Am
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A writer has to live with a sense of honor.

Honor Live Sense Writer
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
All Writers Bad Bad One Forget
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.

Critics Reach Readers Regardless
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My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.

Been Critics Less Me
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Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.
Everybody Going Judgments Lot
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The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.

Around Citizen Compromises Everybody
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When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.

1930s Almost Almost Nothing Early
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Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.

Begin Fiction Form Likely
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Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
Find Life Living Nocturnal
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.

Achieved Expect Popularity Writer
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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.

Avoid Chance Expensive Fortune
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The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.

Looser Interesting Adult Losers
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If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.

Any Apprenticeship Enough Kind
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My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.
Attitudes Books Changed Find
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I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.

Become Began Characters Complicated
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I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young.

Hopeful When Was Young
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Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.

Expecting World Treat Fairly
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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Wait Everything Right Perfect
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Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.

Even Got House Invited
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