Am Quotes (page 238)

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• reading
• writing
• presenting

I am a recluse at present & do nothing but write & read & read & write Katherine Mansfield

• best
• writing
• life

That is one thing I am sure of amid my many uncertainties regarding the literary vocation: deep inside, a writer feels that writing is the best thing that ever happened to him, or could ever happen to him, because as far as he is concerned, writing is the best possible way of life, never mind the social, political, or financial rewards of what he might achieve through it. Mario Vargas Llosa

• vampire
• vampirism
• jesus

Jesus, are all vampires over two hundred perverts?"I am over two hundred," Jean-Claude said."I rest my case. Laurell K. Hamilton

• knows
• know
• marxist

All I know is that I am not a Marxist. Karl Marx

• women
• effort
• she

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to suceed. If I fail, no one wil say, "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't have what it takes. Clare Boothe Luce

• god
• doubt
• creatures

All of God's creatures have names, every last one of them. Of that I am sure: of that I have no doubt at all. Kate DiCamillo

• world
• star
• rich

Bunny slippers remind me of who I am. You can't get a swelled head if you wear bunny slippers. You can't lose your sense of perspective and start acting like a star or a rich lady if you keep on wearing bunny slippers. Besides, bunny slippers give me confidence because they're so jaunty. They make a statement; they say, 'Nothing the world does to me can ever get me so far down that I can't be silly and frivolous. Dean Koontz

• thinking
• intellectual
• intellectually

I think, therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches. Milan Kundera

• god
• sea
• waves

I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea; Yet know I how the heather looks, And what a wave must be. I never spoke with God, Nor visited in Heaven; Yet certain am I of the spot, As if a chart were given. Emily Dickinson

• kiss
• fly
• evening

I pull an arrow, whip the notch into place, and am about to let it fly when I'm stopped by the sight of Finnick kissing Peeta. And it's so bizarre, even for Finnick. Suzanne Collins

• song
• bird
• watch

The bird, the pin, the song, the berries, the watch, the cracker, the dress that burst into flames. I am the mockingjay. The one that survived despite the Capitol's plans. The symbol of the rebellion. Suzanne Collins

• book
• son
• mind

I am the son of a murdered woman—anybody who'd call my books misogynistic is, frankly, out of their fucking mind. James Ellroy

• learning
• perfect
• thing

But I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you if you let it. Emily Giffin

• family
• parts of the body
• part

I am a collection of the family's body parts. Witold Gombrowicz

• friends
• friend
• my friend

I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober Diana Wynne Jones