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Octavia E. Butler

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SUZANNE COLLINS I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
BALTHUS I don't read the magazines that make things up about people. I know what the truth is. I don'...
ASHTON KUTCHER I don't write for an auditorium full of people. I don't write for the microphone; I write fo...
BILLY COLLINS I don't write demographically. I don't write a song to reach these people or those people.
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BRUCE VILANCH I think that I write about stuff that others don't write about. I don't have a bunch of love...
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PAUL THEROUX I'm not sure that it's possible to write a novel about people who don't transgress or st...
TOM PERROTTA Because When you write about people, you inevitably offend--but if you write about animals, the evil...
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DAVID BOWIE What I like to write about is stuff I know. I don't think I could write a novel. I don't thi...
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A. S. BYATT I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novel...
A. N. WILSON I write about personal experiences. I write about things that have happened to me and the people aro...
JAMES BAY I write about true-life type things.
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ABRAHAM A. RIBICOFF Real people - the interesting ones, anyway - don't remain static, and neither do the ones I writ...
P. N. ELROD With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.
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JOHN BOYNE I don't write about my life in my column.
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ABBAS KIAROSTAMI I don't know why sportswriters always have to write bad things about Joaquin Andujar.
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ADELE When people write about what college football is all about they should write about Michael Robinson....
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RAY CHARLES People say I don't write books, I make Christmas presents.
BRYCE COURTENAY Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the mu...
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MARY ROACH I write every day. Most weekdays, I write about ten hours a day. That doesn't mean eight hours o...
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MARY KARR I never had any master plan about directing, and I don't really write.
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NATHANIEL RICH Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women.
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DOUGLAS HODGE I don't know what any of my songs are about. I don't sit down to write about anything. They&...
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IRVING STONE I didn't write. I just wandered about.
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OLESYA RULIN I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.
JOHN ASHBERY I don't write well when I'm sitting there sweating about every single phrase.
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ALAN JACKSON I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity ...
KRISTIN ARMSTRONG I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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GEOFFREY S. FLETCHER Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to w...
KAZUO ISHIGURO I don't sit down and say I'm going to write a song about this or that. They are never mapped...
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KATE ATKINSON I just try to write songs that people are going to have a dialogue about.
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E. E. CUMMINGS Nothing recedes like progress.
E. E. CUMMINGS Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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E. E. CUMMINGS I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E. E. CUMMINGS Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
E. E. CUMMINGS It takes three to make a child.
E. E. CUMMINGS The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
E. E. CUMMINGS Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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E E CUMMINGS Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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E E CUMMINGS He without fear is king of the world.
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E. E. CUMMINGS Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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E E CUMMINGS Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
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E. E. JENKINS To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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E E CUMMINGS It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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and opens; only something in me understands
...
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E. E. CUMMINGS for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) / it's always ourselves we find in the sea
E. E. CUMMINGS The earth laughs in flowers.
E. E. CUMMINGS The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.
E. E. CUMMINGS Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong...
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E. E. CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS Here is the deepest secret nobody knows.Here is the root of the root and the bud of the budAnd the s...
E. E. CUMMINGS "maggie and millie and molly and may"maggie and millie and molly and maywent down to the beach (to p...
E. E. CUMMINGS The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.
E. E. CUMMINGS and it's you whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you.
E. E. CUMMINGS I don't know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice o...
E. E. CUMMINGS Art is a mystery.A mystery is something immeasurable.In so far as every child and woman and man may ...
E. E. CUMMINGS Progress is a comfortable disease.
E. E. CUMMINGS Since feeling is first, who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you, w...
E. E. CUMMINGS Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink
E. E. CUMMINGS We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, wort...
E. E. CUMMINGS next to of course god america i / love you land of the pilgrims and so forth oh
E. E. CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everyb...
E. E. CUMMINGS he sang his didn't he danced his did
E. E. CUMMINGS If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little -- somebody who is obses...
E. E. CUMMINGS and down went / my Uncle / Sol / and started a worm farm
E. E. CUMMINGS If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsess...
E. E. CUMMINGS Bless the flowers and the weeds, my birds and bees
E. E. CUMMINGS "maggie and millie and molly and may"

maggie and millie and molly and may
went down to ...
E. E. CUMMINGS Why do you paint?
For exactly the same reason I breathe.
That’s not an answer.
There is...
E. E. CUMMINGS When I'm 80 and sagging all over, I can tell my grandkids, 'Look, when I was a lad, 'Peo...
GERARD BUTLER Honestly, what can really be said about 'the Jewish people' as a whole? Is it not a lamentab...
JUDITH BUTLER I never worked less than 16-hour days on South Beach.
YANCY BUTLER I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.
YANCY BUTLER I'll try anything once.
YANCY BUTLER I'm open to sci-fi, but I was never a diehard fan. I have no idea why it keeps following me. I&#...
YANCY BUTLER I'm the oldest 26-year-old I know. A lot of experience has been crammed into a short amount of t...
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