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• I find that the most interestingly written parts happen to be the bad guys.

  Liev Schreiber

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• I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.

  Irwin Shaw

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• If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

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• If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.

  Toni Morrison

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• I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I’ve wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written.

  James Rollins

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• To have everything written for you… It’s not really creating. That’s why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They ‘re limited to exactly what was played a hundred years before them by a thousand other drummers.

  Buddy Rich

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• I’ve written about 15 screenplays and they all sold – they were all sold on pitches.

  Bruce Vilanch

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• I stand behind all the lyrics I’ve ever written; I don’t have a problem with that.

  Ian MacKaye

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• The people who send us fan mail written in blood say the nicest things, so it doesn’t freak us out too much.

  Davey Havok

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• I had repeatedly made written requests to the Fuehrer that I might be allowed to join the Wehrmacht as an ordinary soldier. He refused to give me this permission.

  Fritz Sauckel

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• Probably all the books I’ve ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity.

  Fred Saberhagen

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• When Byrd came out of there, he had written a lot things while he was in the hospital.

  Billy Eckstine

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• The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

  Frank Zappa

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• It is only what is written upon the soul of man that will survive the wreck of time.

  Francis James Grimke

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• I would rather have bad things written about me than be forgotten.

  Pamela Harriman

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• How shall a man escape from that which is written; How shall he flee from his destiny?

  Ferdowsi

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• All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.

  Felix Frankfurter

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• I do still get the odd fan letter about The Good Life, clearly written by somebody aged 18, who says: Will you send a photograph? And I think: Maybe it’s kinder not to. I’m deeply into my 50s now.

  Felicity Kendal

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• I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn’t think I could read, much less write.

  George W. Bush

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• Fate is written in the face.

  Federico Fellini

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