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Emily Bronte: I'll walk where...

Emily Bronte: I'll walk where...

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading-
It vexes me to choose another guide.


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Emily Bronte: I've dreamt in...

Emily Bronte: I've dreamt in...

I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and...

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Fay Weldon: The New Women!...

Fay Weldon: The New Women!...

The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself . . . .They are satiated by...

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Anzia Yezierska: The real thing...

Anzia Yezierska: The real thing...

The real thing creates its own poetry.

Source: Red Ribbon on a White Horse,...

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Daphne DuMaurier: She could not...

Daphne DuMaurier: She could not...

She could not separate success from peace of mind. The two must go together.

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Daphne DuMaurier: Writers should be...

Daphne DuMaurier: Writers should be...

Writers should be read -- but neither seen nor heard.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Nancy Mitford: An aristocracy in...

Nancy Mitford: An aristocracy in...

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in...

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Barbara Kingsolver: Come to...

Barbara Kingsolver: Come to...

Come to think of it, just about every tool was shaped like either a weenie or a pistol, depending on your point of...

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Madeleine L'Engle: A book comes...

Madeleine L'Engle: A book comes...

A book comes and says, Write me. My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough,...

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Fay Weldon: The desire for...

Fay Weldon: The desire for...

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting...

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Anzia Yezierska: The power that...

Anzia Yezierska: The power that...

The power that makes the grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us...

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Anne Rice: To write something,...

Anne Rice: To write something,...

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

Source: In The...

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Jean Ingelow: It is not...

Jean Ingelow: It is not...

It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Shirley Hazzard: It's a nervous...

Shirley Hazzard: It's a nervous...

It's a nervous work. The state that you need to write is the state that others are paying large sums to get rid...

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Madeleine L'Engle: When I am...

Madeleine L'Engle: When I am...

When I am grappling with ideas which are radical enough to upset grown-ups, then I am likely to put these ideas into a...

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Francoise Sagan: To jealousy, nothing...

Francoise Sagan: To jealousy, nothing...

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

Source: La Chamade,...

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Djuna Barnes: Time is a...

Djuna Barnes: Time is a...

Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg...

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Djuna Barnes: Dreams have only...

Djuna Barnes: Dreams have only...

Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.

Source: Doctor, in Nightwood, ch. 5,...

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Djuna Barnes: We are beginning...

Djuna Barnes: We are beginning...

We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes...

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Gail Godwin: Good teaching is...

Gail Godwin: Good teaching is...

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.

Source: The Odd...

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