"Better that you should take the chance of trying something that is close to your heart, you think is what you want to write, and if they do not publish it, put it in your drawer. But maybe another day will come and you will find a place to put that."

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"Better that you should take the chance of trying something that is close to your heart, you think is what you want to write, and if they do not publish it, put it in your drawer. But maybe another day will come and you will find a place to put that."

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"True love asks no question of the heart. It knows with surety."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!"

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling."

William James, American Philosopher

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"Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?"

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart."

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"Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't."

Eleanor Roosevelt, American First Lady

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"The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French Novelist

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Homer, Greek Poet

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"For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work."

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"People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about how to get an alimony settlement better than they got last week."

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"Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them."

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"With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living."

Time

"Thirteen years I took on this last book."

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"News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all."

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"I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work."

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"The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm."

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"The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved."

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