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“The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?”

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Author:Randy Wayne White

“I'm just very, very slow. I would not make it as a journalist, I've got to tell you. I sweat bullets over every sentence, and sometimes, you know, a day will pass and I've written one paragraph, and I've been at the computer for four hours.”

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Author:Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“One of my heroes, almost necessarily from what I'm saying, of course, is Borges, who is a supreme master of doing thing -- being a data bank -- and the beauty of this economy is that he could have written War and Peace in three or four pages; who knows, it might have been a better book.”

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Author:Peter Greenaway

“A great deal has been written about personal power by Carlos Casteneda, and I find his first four books valuable. Of the experiences themselves, who knows? But the principles that are presented are quite valuable for one who seeks power.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Winston has written four volumes about himself and called it 'World Crisis'.”

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Author:Arthur Balfour

“I did a weird thing when I was about 24. For four years I had written quite a lot of poetry, and I started reading through it and thought some of it was really good. So I burnt it all.”

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Author:Cliff Curtis

“I started reading Dickens when I was about 12, and I particularly liked all of the orphan books. I always liked books about young people who are left on their own with the world, and the four children's books I've written feature that very thing: children that are abandoned by their families or running away from their families or ignored by their families and having to grow up quicker than they should, like David Copperfield - having to be the hero of their own story.”

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Author:John Boyne

“My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis.”

“A curious thing about written literature: It is about four thousand years old, but we have no way of knowing whether four thousand years constitutes senility or the maiden blush of youth.”

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Author:John Barth

“A lot of the album is made of love songs I've written over the past three or four years that have lasted the test of time. It's probably the thing that connects the songs together other than the sound of my vocals.”

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Author:Vance Joy

“Not too many people work in a job where, waiting out there are three or four hundred people who are paid to tear apart what you've done. And often they are brighter than you are, or they know more about the subject than you do, or they wish they had written a book themselves, or done a lot better. Or they just don't like it! And you have to live with it.”

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Author:James A. Michener

“If you were to say to me that you needed a romantic and sentimental song in four hours, I would have that song written in four hours.”

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Author:Alice Cooper

“Genes are biochemical recipes written in a four-letter alphabet called DNA.”

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Book:The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

Source: The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

“All the Cosmic Drama, as it is written in the four Gospels, should be lived inside ourselves, here and now. The isn't something merely historic, it's something to live, here and now!”

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Author:Samael Aun Weor

“I believe good software is written by small teams of two, three, or four people interacting with each other at a very high, dense level.”

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Author:John Warnock

“Right now I feel so inspired, it's hard to believe. I've written about 20 songs in the last two days. I'd gone about four months without writing a thing.”

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Author:Tommy Bolin

“I've written books that have taken me fifteen years, from first sentence to last, and some that only take three or four months.”

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Author:Paul Auster

“Some of the stories in Dogwalker were written as long as four years ago, but I wouldn't say I've been working on this collection for four years. I have always been a little unsure of whether I could make it as a writer so I've held other jobs and worked on other projects this whole time.”

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Author:Arthur Bradford