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I like to write about women, not so much about the way they relate to men, but about the way they relate to each other. ↗

— Tina Fey

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In writing, I search for believability, simplicity and emotional impact. ↗

— Hal David

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My mother had always taught me to write about my feelings instead of sharing really personal things with others, so I spent many evenings writing in my diary, eating everything in the kitchen and waiting for Mr. Wrong to call. ↗

— Cathy Guisewite

#always #call #diary #eating #evenings

When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#critic #i #i do #me #say

Writers always know whether you like them or not. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

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For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#books #contempt #desire #even #glory

The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it's icy, and I'm in bare feet. ↗

— Mary Higgins Clark

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Drama school is fundamentally practical. I didn't write any essays, so I came out with a BA honors degree in acting. ↗

— Emilia Clarke

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