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For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story. ↗

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set. ↗

— Adlai Stevenson

#another #car #dreams #even #freedom

I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#complexities #did #ended #explain #hughes

I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#did #god #his #i #merely

I've always thought that whether I'm writing or not, I've gotta pick the best songs, whether or not they're mine. I'm not gonna sing them just because I wrote them. I've gotta find the best songs to make the best record I can. ↗

— George Strait

#because #best #find #gonna #gotta

I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves. ↗

— August Strindberg

#courage #cowards #disliked #dogs #fight

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#away #burn #consolation #could #i

I always knew I wanted to be a musician, and I always knew I wanted to write, 'cause the people I was listening to all wrote. I never thought it was an option to sing anyone else's songs. ↗

— Emeli Sande

#anyone #cause #else #i #i always

I will protect democracy with my life. ↗

— Thaksin Shinawatra

#i #life #my life #protect #will

One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution. ↗

— Bob Schaffer

#activities #begun #being #cannot #collective