#rite

If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth. ↗

— George Bancroft

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Oftentimes what happens is that the writer understands one character, but they don't understand the other one, and the other one ends up not being written as well. ↗

— Jennifer Beals

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My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

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Writers always say, 'I always knew I wanted to be a writer; when I was a three-month-old foetus a pen formed in my hand and I began to scratch my first story on the inside of my mother's womb.' I started later, in my early twenties. ↗

— Harlan Coben

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After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

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I write about my life. ↗

— George Michael

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If you take my entire golfing life, my favorites are the older courses, the more traditional and the more authentic. ↗

— Trent Dilfer

#courses #entire #favorites #golfing #life

My favorite on screen moments are when you are really there and you know you're creating something. That's so exciting... it's why you come to work. ↗

— Jason Dohring

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If you are a writer you're at home, which means you're out of touch. You have to make excuses to get out there and look at how the world is changing. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

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I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

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