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I started writing because of a terrible feeling of powerlessness," the novelist Anita Brookner has said. The National Book Award winner Alice McDermott noted that the most difficult thing about becoming a writer was convincing herself that she had anything to say that people would want to read. "There's nothing to writing," the columnist Red Smith once commented. "All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein. Wally Lamb
If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine. Fernando Pessoa
Dave Eggers quote: "If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you..."
If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air. Dave Eggers
Martha Graham quote: "Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what..."
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can Martha Graham
When we make our own misery we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable. Dean Koontz
Do you know what I feel about you, Devin? About us?...Dazzled, you dazzle me. You make me feel things, and want things I never knew I could have. -Cassie Nora Roberts
The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep! You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep! People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch, The door is round and open. Don't go back to sleep! Rumi
The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon. Kurt Vonnegut
I wanted to sit there forever, drinking in bitter satisfaction, using someone else as a license. In the years that followed, I did a lot of that. Pete Hamill
Samuel Johnson quote: "Do not suffer life to stagnate, it will grow muddy for want of..."
Do not suffer life to stagnate, it will grow muddy for want of motion; commit yourself again to the current of the world. Samuel Johnson
Bob Dylan quote: "It's easier to be me than someone else. But just like most..."
It's easier to be me than someone else. But just like most famous people, I just want to be left alone most of the time. Bob Dylan
When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, wither do we turn? To the murder column; and there we are rarely disappointed. George Bernard Shaw
You can’t manage me, Lindsay. I’m more than happy to be the recipient of your persuasive skills, but not if you’ll be pissed off when it doesn’t get you what you want. Sylvia Day
You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will ever give you love because you want him or her to give it. Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else. Cheryl Strayed
They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force - nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others. Joseph Conrad

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