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CJ Heck

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If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
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A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive.
ERNESTO CHE GUEVARA
'Tis easy to write epigrams nicely but to write a book is hard
MARCUS AURELIUS
No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you...
CYNTHIA OZICK
Absolutely Disgusted! Your Father's Facing An Inquiry At Work And It's Entirely Your Fault! If You P...
J.K. ROWLING
If you would be a reader, read; if a writer,write
EPICTETUS
The most difficult thing about living as a writer is precisely 'having to write.' Pretending...
KIM YOUNG-HA
You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call the "...
COUNTEE CULLEN
At this stage in my life, I've finally come to realize that I've learned more from my children than ...
CJ HECK
I miss the childish days of my youth, when each day was as long as a month is now.
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If you've never jumped from the couch to a chair to avoid the burning lava, you didn't have a childh...
CJ HECK
Real love is feeling so loved and so secure that even your name feels safe in his mouth.
CJ HECK
“May you always see the world through the eyes of a child.”
CJ HECK
Adults are only children with a few more years on top.
CJ HECK
Fishing is a lot like marriage. You can get into a lot of trouble with either of them by rocking the...
CJ HECK
Life is full of choices. Every breath, every minute, every path you take is a choice. To be or not b...
CJ HECK
Don't let thoughts from your mind block feelings from your heart.
CJ HECK
You never know how important a moment is, until it becomes a memory.
CJ HECK
Pet Peeve: pill bottles that say, "Take one tablet daily by mouth." Where the heck do they THINK I'm...
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Children see fairies because they believe in them.
CJ HECK
Is anything better than motherhood? Maybe, just maybe, grandmotherhood.
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“We all have an inner voice, our personal whisper from the universe. All we have to do is listen, ...
CJ HECK
There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call '...
COUNTEE CULLEN
I never learned to be a writer. I never took screenwriting courses. I never read anyone's script...
DEREK CIANFRANCE
All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION
We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD
You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.
CASSANDRA CLARE
Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a w...
AVI
Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child.
MAX MULLER
Writer advice... Write. Finish things. Go for walks. Read a lot & outside your comfort zone. Sta...
NEIL GAIMAN
He who likes cherries soon learns to climb
GERMAN PROVERB
I am what I have ever read
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS
The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure...
MARCEL ACHARD
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.
STEPHEN KING
The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO
Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO
Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO
The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO
Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO
We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO
Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO
I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO
We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO
I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO
It’s very hard to invent a pen but very easy to write with the same.
CHANDAN KUMAR DE
I knew which way it was going to go anyway, with CJ moving into that slot, ... So, I figured there w...
BILL HORN
Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way roun...
MAYA ANGELOU
Dixon Steele: You know, when you first walked into the police station, I said to myself, “There sh...
DOROTHY B. HUGHES
if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the wri...
P. L. TRAVERS
Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportu...
KARL MARX
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE
You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE
The fact is that if the writer's attention is on producing a work of art, a work that is good in its...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
Become my muse. And let me paint you with my words...
AVIJEET DAS
Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
I'm a simple, little book but heavy; with a lot of grammar but with few pages; with unlimited reader...
KAGABO BURANGA JACQUES
With each book, you get better as a writer. There is no back door to the industry. Read in the genre...
MICHELLE MORAN
You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's curst hard reading.
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN
You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN
A talented writer can write women, men, dogs, pigs. They can write old people, young people. Does a ...
DIRK BENEDICT
Too easy to get = Just as easy to forget.
MANDY HALE
But how?" my students ask. "How do you actually do it?"
You sit down, I say. You try to sit do...
ANNE LAMOTT
'Made it as a writer'? I'm still wondering if I've made it as a writer. I've mad...
ERIC BROWN
He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
EDGAR FIEDLER
He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
EDGAR R. FIEDLER
The greatest tribute one can give to a writer is that it is simply enough to read him.
ISAAC GOLDBERG
Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live.
JOYCE RACHELLE
Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
A WALK TO REMEMBER
Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
The power of the writer is to capture the thoughts live and present them as they appeared in his min...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
When I write sometimes I strike gold, sometimes I labor in vain and keep producing rubbish
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
A writer reports on the universe. When he presents his credentials, the gates of heaven and hell are...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
The world would have been a better place if some men had just shut their mouths.
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
I am not a supporter of burning books; but like poison, some books should be kept away from simple m...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
A writer is a thought smith; he educates men to think for themselves
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
One author said "I write because I want to live a footprint in the sands of history.” It's hard to...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
Don't believe in everything that is written. Not everything that is written is true
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
Many writers write because they’ve been there, seen that, did it and burnt their fingers
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
I used to be afraid about what people might say or think after reading what I had written. I am not ...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
The power of a writer is that he is a god of sorts. He can create his own worlds and populate them w...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
Able writers let us into their minds and show us how they think and by that open our minds to oursel...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
Sometimes I have a good idea, something I wish I could remember, and instead of writing it down, com...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN
Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER
I definitely want to act and I want to sing. If those two fall through, I want to become a writer, p...
CASSIE STEELE
To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not...
MARIA MITCHELL
I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand peop...
ANN HOOD
As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I co...
MICHAEL CHABON
Being a professional writer is not an easy way to make a living.
TRACY KIDDER
If you wish to be a writer, write.
EPICTETUS
A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard-by stealing wha...
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH

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