Think much, speak little, write less. ~French Proverb
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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. ~Slovenian Proverb
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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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A watched pot never boils. ~English Proverb
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I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. ~Petrarch
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I am kind of a grinder. I am a Cinderella, an underdog story who fights. ~Zach Johnson
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As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are. ~Quentin Tarantino
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Two wrongs don't make a right. ~English Proverb
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When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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I don't usually think of my writing as a "challenge" because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid "writer's block" all these years. ~Melody Carlson
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Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills. ~Hebrew Proverb
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A good companion shortens the longest road. ~Kurdish Proverb
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I have a folder of scraps and pieces of paper with stuff, ideas for songs from the last 25 years; just little things, maybe early songs that I finished, but didn't think they were good enough. ~Lucinda Williams
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A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. ~Latin Proverb
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. ~J. G. Ballard
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I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small. ~Robert Dessaix
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The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson who showed me that one could write in any way at all. ~Lydia Davis
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A woman either hates or loves, there is no third course. ~Latin Proverb
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There is no place like home. ~English Proverb
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I like to play music; play guitar; I love that. Play some golf in the summer. Just relax, enjoy the summer. That's nice. ~Henrik Lundqvist
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The obstacle is the path. ~Zen Proverb
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It is better to practice a little than talk a lot. ~Zen Proverb
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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