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I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

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Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing. ↗

— Mike Tyson

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The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

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The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down. ↗

— A. Whitney Brown

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I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window. ↗

— Eddie Campbell

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As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

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And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years. ↗

— Joan Collins

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My grandmother passed at 104. She sang and wrote songs until she passed. ↗

— Rita Coolidge

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I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published. ↗

— Caroline B. Cooney

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I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

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