"While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying."

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Marilyn vos Savant

#Writing Quotes #Literature Quotes #Wells Quotes

“All my favorite stars, my family and my friends are here. I'm having the happiest birthday that an 18-year-old girl could ever have.”
“The Bible was the only book he read. He didn't read it often but when he did he wore his mother's glasses. They tired his eyes so that after a short time he was always obliged to stop.”
“Health care is at the beginning of a dialogue with the world... as health care providers, we have to ask ourselves this question: What stories are we not hearing?”
“The firmest purpose of a woman's heart to well-timed, artful flattery may yield.”
“War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.”
“The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.”
“No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book.”
“Lisa's baby was due about now. I've decided she had it and it was a girl. I've named her Rachel.”

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