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My top priority in any trade negotiation is expanding opportunity for hardworking Americans. It's no secret that past trade deals haven't always lived up to their promise, and that's why I will only sign my name to an agreement that helps ordinary Americans get ahead, the bill put forward today would help us write those rules in a way that avoids the mistakes from our past, seizes opportunities for our future and stays true to our values.

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There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Writing Quotes , Two Quotes

The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of literature from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order.

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One day I'm going to write a book about osprey. It has really gotten deep into my bloodstream. So when you ask what else I do, I feel like this is part of what I do....is to watch these birds.

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Tags : Alan Lightman Quotes , Book Quotes , Writing Quotes

To be allowed to call her "Dora", to write to her, to dote upon and worship her, to have reason to think that when she was with other people she was yet mindful of me, seemed to me the summit of human ambition - I am sure it was the summit of mine.

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Taking the question in general, I should say, in the case of many poets, that the most important thing for them to do ... is to write as little as possible

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Writing Quotes , Important Quotes

If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all.

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Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Writing Quotes , Greatness Quotes

I believe that the main thing in beginning a novel is to feel, not that you can write it, but that it exists on the far side of a gulf, which words can't cross: that it's to be pulled through only in a breathless anguish.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Believe Quotes , Writing Quotes

When you're writing about something that happened, it helps you transition to the present.

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I write because I need to share my thoughts with the audience.

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One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Writing Quotes , Editing Quotes

Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Inspiration Quotes , Writing Quotes

Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?

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Never write about a place until you're away from it, because it gives you perspective. Immediately after you've seen something you can give a photographic description of it and make it accurate. That's good practice, but it isn't creative writing.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing Quotes , Practice Quotes

I like sitting and writing with my buddies.

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One usually dislikes a play while writing it, but afterward it grows on one. Let others judge and make decisions.

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I think age is really changing how I write and the themes that I connect with. But there are also things I'm really intrigued about.

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Tags : Abi Morgan Quotes , Writing Quotes , Thinking Quotes

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Time Quotes , Writing Quotes

A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing Quotes , Owl Quotes