"People say you can't teach writing, but I think that's nonsense."

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"People say you can't teach writing, but I think that's nonsense."

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"I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories."

Donna Tartt, American Novelist

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"If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers."

Lenny Kravitz, American Musician

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"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

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"One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

Thomas Mann, German Writer

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"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

Douglas Adams, English Writer

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"The way you see people is the way you treat them."

Zig Ziglar, American Author

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Bryant Gumbel, American Entertainer

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"At first, I spend about four hours a day writing. Toward the end of a book, I spend up to 16 hours a day on it, because all I want to do is make it good and get it done."

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"I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it."

"I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories."

"If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers."

"You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like."

"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."

"One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide."

"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

"The way you see people is the way you treat them."

"It's not that I dislike many people. It's just that I don't like many people."

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"I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in."

"At first, I spend about four hours a day writing. Toward the end of a book, I spend up to 16 hours a day on it, because all I want to do is make it good and get it done."

"You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness."

"I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way."

"I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard."