Category: writer
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I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that’s been made from one of my books, I know that it isn’t going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I’ll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it.
Stephen King
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Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.
Zadie Smith
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This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.
Voltaire
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However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.
J. K. Rowling
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There are a lot of ‘chicken Christians.’ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.
Joyce Meyer
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Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I am a preacher. I’m involved in many other things, but, mainly, I preach. And I love it!
Charles R. Swindoll
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Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
Rabindranath Tagore
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The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.
John C. Maxwell