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Margaret Atwood: Because I am...

Margaret Atwood: Because I am...

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

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Margaret Atwood: If I were...

Margaret Atwood: If I were...

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints...

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Sarah Orne Jewett: The road was...

Sarah Orne Jewett: The road was...

The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back.

Source: The Country of the...

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Anthony Trollope: Success is the...

Anthony Trollope: Success is the...

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes...

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E L Doctorow: Writing is like...

E L Doctorow: Writing is like...

Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole...

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Artemus Ward: I have already...

Artemus Ward: I have already...

I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's...

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Harper Lee: I do much...

Harper Lee: I do much...

I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you're working at home they think nothing of walking...

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Lisa Alther: What a surprise...

Lisa Alther: What a surprise...

What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a...

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Salman Rushdie: Sometimes legends make...

Salman Rushdie: Sometimes legends make...

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

Source:...

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Salman Rushdie: In this world...

Salman Rushdie: In this world...

In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible,...

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Evelyn Waugh: I came to...

Evelyn Waugh: I came to...

I came to the conclusion many years ago that almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic...

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Evelyn Waugh: It is a...

Evelyn Waugh: It is a...

It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: If you can't...

Lois McMaster Bujold: If you can't...

If you can't do what you want, do what you can.

Source: In Collection of 10,000...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: I am who...

Lois McMaster Bujold: I am who...

I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose?though not always what I pleased....

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Jane Austen: How can you...

Jane Austen: How can you...

How can you contrive to write so even?

Source: (Miss Bingley) Pride and Prejudice,...

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Jane Austen: It was not...

Jane Austen: It was not...

It was not very wonderful that Catherine . . . should prefer cricket, base ball . . . to...

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Margaret Drabble: The middle years,...

Margaret Drabble: The middle years,...

The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too...

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Joseph Heller: I don't believe...

Joseph Heller: I don't believe...

I don't believe in miracles because it's been a long time since we've had any.

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Peter De Vries: It is the...

Peter De Vries: It is the...

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

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Peter De Vries: I write when...

Peter De Vries: I write when...

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every...

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