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If you grow up in Ireland and read books then you really are obliged to attempt your own some time. It is not exactly a choice. I still don't know if I am a writer. Believe me, there are days when I have my doubts.

~Anne Enright

Topics: Am Attempt Believe Books Choice Days Doubts Exactly Grow Grow Up Ireland Know Me Obliged Own Read Really Some Still Then Time Up Writer You Your I Am

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There are certain books that should be taken away from young writers; that should be prised out of their clutching fingers and locked away until they are all grown up and ready to read them without being smitten.

~Anne Enright

Topics: Away Being Books Certain Fingers Grown Locked Out Read Ready Should Smitten Taken Them Until Up Without Writers Young Young Writers

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I have a small room to write in. One wall is completely covered in books. And I face the window with the curtain closed to stop the light hitting the computer.

~Anne Enright

Topics: Books Closed Computer Covered Curtain Face Hitting Light Room Small Stop Wall Window Write

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If I haven't any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.

~Anne Frank

Topics: Always Any Articles Books Myself Newspaper Talent Then Well Write Writing I Can

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My life's goal is not to write books; my life's goal is to know God better today. The neat thing about a goal like that is you can achieve it. Faith is constant; it's a relationship.

~Anne Graham Lotz

Topics: About Achieve Better Books Constant Faith Goal God Know Life Like Neat Relationship Thing Today Write You

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I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Because Books Come Could Exist Must Students Tell Then Used Wished Would Write Writing

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I try to write the books I would love to come upon that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual transformation, families, secrets, wonder, craziness - and that can make me laugh.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Books Come Concerned Craziness Families Hearts Honest Human Laugh Lives Love Make Make Me Laugh Me Real Secrets Spiritual Transformation Try Wonder Would Write

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I don't often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood when originating the concept.

~Anne Mccaffrey

Topics: Am Another Books Concept Going Mood My Own Need Often Own Refresh Series Unless I Am

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I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens.

~Anne Mccaffrey

Topics: Books Closes Comfort Happens Me Read Shelf Something Which World

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What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, balancing a pile of books on the head. Baby-carriage, parasol, kitchen chair, still under control. Steady now! This is not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity that the wise men warn us of.

~Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Topics: Act Balancing Books Chair Circus Control Daily Day Every Every Day Head Kitchen Life Lives Look Men Multiplicity Now Our Our Lives Perform Pile Run Simplicity Steady Still Tightrope Us Warn Wise Wise Men Women

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