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In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.


Junot Díaz

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JOYCE RACHELLE The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
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TONI MORRISON If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
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L. RON HUBBARD Judge not lest ye be judged.
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THOMAS KELLER You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD First you're an unknown, then you write one book and you move up to obscurity.
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Write.
Write more.
Write even more.
W...
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CHERRELLE Your ears love to hear, so speak to it
SOTONYE ANGA One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is...
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A. SALEH Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write
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LOUISE BROWN I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes...
LORD BRABAZON I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes...
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ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES I wouldn’t change a thing
Because all those things led me to
this place
And to you
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