Definition of a Writer: One who tells stories that demand to be told.
– Ana Patrick
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- There must be a demand, there must be an urge and there must be a will and where there is a demand and a will, there will also be a way. – Patience Johnson
- If you demand the collective to pay for your medical expenses, then be prepared for the collective to demand to make your medical decisions for you. – AE Samaan
- What is in great demand, but scarce, is expensive, but even when wisdom is not in demand it is priceless. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- The consequence of the demand for fast answers to complicated health matters is the endless demand for tests, diagnostics, and pharmaceuticals. – Archelle Georgiou
- need is not demand. Effective economic demand requires not merely need but corresponding purchasing power. – Henry Hazlitt
- Stories arrest us. Parents use stories to capture the attention of active children. Preachers use stories to capture the attention of sleepy adults. – Tony Reinke
- People need stories…we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books. – Jennifer Chiaverini
- Souls are more important than stories, yes. But stories are a window to the soul. Without stories, the soul suffocates. – Christy Hall
- …it’s not the stories – it’s the pain and the joy and the people who stay with you long after the stories are told … – John Geddes
- Anarcho-capitalism is not by definition libertarian. It is rather a prediction, not a definition. – David D Friedman
- …if good is defined as something else, it is then impossible either to prove that any other definition is wrong or even to deny such definition. – GE Moore
- The journey as a writer is not so much about our stories, but the stories of others we meet along the way on our wonderful path. #grateful – Lee BiceMatheson
- Don’t let the excess of demand make you loose your command and get you further from what you’ve planned. – Ana Claudia Antunes
- I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer . . . I am a half-fast writer. – Robert Lynn Asprin
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- Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it’s not OK, but you can change it. – Bono
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- An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (he thinks) they want to hear. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- When a man really tells the truth, the first truth he tells is that he himself is a liar. – GK Chesterton
- Matter tells space how to curve, space tells matter how to move. – Albert Einstein
- Pride tells me to give it back, but common sense tells pride to shut up, have a joint and relax. I shrug and put the note into my wallet. – Mohsin Hamid
- If a woman tells you she’s twenty and looks sixteen, she’s twelve. If she tells you she’s twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she’s damn near forty. – Chris Rock
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- It is today that tells you if you learned from yesterday, and if tomorrow is possible. – John Patrick Hickey
- When someone tells you a piece of their life, they’re giving you a gift, not granting you your due. – Patrick Rothfuss
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- How do you paint a writer’s block?Just fill it with fifty shades of black. – Ana Claudia Antunes
- God’s laws for the spiritual world are found in the Bible. Whatever else there may be that tells us of God, it is more clearly told in the Bible. – Billy Graham
- A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way. – Anne Lamott
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- We have our stories, and we speak of them, and weave them into other people’s stories – that’s how it goes, does it not? – Susan Fletcher
- There’s no future in stories…Stories are things of the past, things for museums. – David Mitchell
- What if all religiouns were stories, and all stories were true? – Rick Chiantaretto