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Anne Tyler: I've always thought...

Anne Tyler: I've always thought...

I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. . . . I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night,...

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Anne Sophie Swetchine: Travel is the...

Anne Sophie Swetchine: Travel is the...

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

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Elizabeth Bowen: All your youth...

Elizabeth Bowen: All your youth...

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are...

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Annie Dillard: I woke at...

Annie Dillard: I woke at...

I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than...

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Gertrude Stein: Native always means...

Gertrude Stein: Native always means...

Native always means people who belong somewhere else, because they had once belonged somewhere. That shows that the...

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Gertrude Stein: It is extraordinary...

Gertrude Stein: It is extraordinary...

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is...

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Agatha Christie: The best time...

Agatha Christie: The best time...

The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.

Source: In An...

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Agatha Christie: I've always believed...

Agatha Christie: I've always believed...

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each...

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Maria Edgeworth: All work and...

Maria Edgeworth: All work and...

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy,
All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.


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Emily Bronte: If I could...

Emily Bronte: If I could...

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their...

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Estelle Ramey: I don't mind...

Estelle Ramey: I don't mind...

I don't mind . . . the fun and games of being treated like a fragile flower. But as a physiologist working with the...

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Annie Dillard: You can't test...

Annie Dillard: You can't test...

You can't test courage cautiously.

Source: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, ch. 6,...

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Natalia Ginzburg: Children should be...

Natalia Ginzburg: Children should be...

Children should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to...

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Ellen Glasgow: A tragic irony...

Ellen Glasgow: A tragic irony...

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which...

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Jessamyn West: Fiction is [a...

Jessamyn West: Fiction is [a...

Fiction is [a form of writing which] reveals truths that reality obscures.

Source:...

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Ayn Rand: He liked to...

Ayn Rand: He liked to...

He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality,...

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Colette: It is wise...

Colette: It is wise...

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

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Sarah Orne Jewett: The thing that...

Sarah Orne Jewett: The thing that...

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper -- whether...

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Alexandra Ripley: [The publishers] wanted...

Alexandra Ripley: [The publishers] wanted...

[The publishers] wanted some kind of book that lands on the best-seller list again and again. They didn't understand...

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Faith Baldwin: You cannot contribute...

Faith Baldwin: You cannot contribute...

You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach,...

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