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If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms.


Charles J. Shields

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BILAL SAIF If you want to be different, if you want to be better than normal, then you must live differently.
CRAIG GROESCHEL If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE SR. If you want to make people weep, you must weep yourself. If you want to make people laugh, your face...
GIOVANNI JACOPO CASANOVA Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you k...
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CASSANDRA CLARE It comes a point in which you don't know if you write books or the books write you
ROBIN SACREDFIRE To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
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TONI MORRISON If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.
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HARRY YOU If you want honesty and love, you have to be honest and loving and loveable.
AKSEL HENNIE If you want to be a writer, then write.
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JUDY BLUME If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it
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TONI MORRISON Because I want to be remembered.
SHERMAN ALEXIE Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, w...
AUSTIN KLEON Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.
G. W. F. HEGEL If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
SPANISH PROVERB If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
PROVERB Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
J. B. PRIESTLEY Know the rules if you want to break them.
OCTAV DRUTA You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you sh...
NIKKI GIOVANNI To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
ADAM JONES If you want to write it that way, ... that would be helpful.
DAVID AKERS If you want to be successful. You must pay the price in advance.
GODWIN ELENDU PH.D Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.
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SUNDAY ADELAJA If you don’t have a goal and don’t know where you want to be and when you want be there. You are...
AHMED ALI ANJUM Small venues are critical in New York, ... If you want to be in the business, you also have to break...
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GORDON ATKINSON 'Must not give up even if you break.
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STEVE MARABOLI To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
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RAY BRADBURY Have the courage to do what you're not ready to do.
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PAWAN MISHRA Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
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BILLY ECKSTINE If you want to govern the people,
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LAO TZU The sad heart needs work to do.
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GEORGE MACDONALD you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame;
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IKE BARINHOLTZ To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need.
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THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others.
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ISRAELMORE AYIVOR By encouraging the critic in themselves (the hater) they have killed the artist (the lover).
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ANTHONY T. HINCKS I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
DANA PLATO This is your moment. You're meant to be here.
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GAIL WINAWER If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!
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FEREIDOON YAZDI It is all very well to be able to write books, but can you waggle your ears?
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“How can I partic...
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GARY SHIELDS You get penalized if you don't have high taxes.
GARY SHIELDS I think it'll be a wash out.
GARY SHIELDS Here's the deal. I want people reading. We are professionals, and we need to be reading and studying...
GERALD SHIELDS We had 20 presentations, and everyone had a chance to talk and ask questions about it. And out of th...
GERALD SHIELDS We'll take a book like The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership or The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Peo...
GERALD SHIELDS It's more than just a book club. It's a way for me to invest in our people.
GERALD SHIELDS Any lack of joy in the world is the result of disobedience.
CAROLYN SHIELDS The needs change. Sometimes Scout camps that were once outside of town are swallowed up by sprawl, o...
GREGG SHIELDS We are deeply concerned for every person affected by the heat, and we sincerely hope they are back o...
GREGG SHIELDS We didn't have any hint of any criminality. This is accidental, and we're going to look into ways to...
GREGG SHIELDS We recognize that a growing portion of our population isn't Caucasian and isn't suburban, A lot of t...
GREGG SHIELDS Thank God he's found. The boy's safe, and that's what's important.
GREGG SHIELDS The overriding concern is always safety.
GREGG SHIELDS A tragedy,
FRANK SHIELDS I think of the present digital/IT evolution happening in the global industry as the most exciting pe...
FRANK SHIELDS Over the past five years in particular new websites have been popping up all over the world, selling...
FRANK SHIELDS There are more film schools here than any other city, pumping out more aspiring filmmakers, and ther...
FRANK SHIELDS There is no distribution outlet for young bloods to exhibit,
FRANK SHIELDS This could sap thousands of dollars from schools that are already financially strapped to provide ed...
GREG SHIELDS The whole thing is, you don't know what's going to happen.
GREG SHIELDS I'm pretty sure at that time economically it was very painful because I don't think they had insuran...
ED SHIELDS Front Street was just about completely flattened.
ED SHIELDS It was a path that looks just about like the worst areas in New Orleans.
ED SHIELDS I would have thought that I would have become one of those parents - just because it's my nature...
BROOKE SHIELDS I've never been naturally fashion conscious. I'm the kind of person who sees a whole outfit ...
BROOKE SHIELDS I have a place in the Broadway community that can only be earned.
BROOKE SHIELDS