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Good style happens in one of two ways: the writer either has an inborn talent or is willing to work herself to death to get it.

Good style happens in one of two ways: the writer either has an inborn talent or is willing to work herself to death to get it.
– Haruki Murakami

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  1. No matter how much enthusiasm and effort you put into writing, if you totally lack literary talent you can forget about being a novelist. – Haruki Murakami
  2. Whenever she felt like crying, she would instead become angry-”at someone else or at herself-”which meant that it was rare for her to shed tears. – Haruki Murakami
  3. Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted. – Haruki Murakami
  4. When you’re always scheming about ways to make money, it’s like a part of you is lost. – Haruki Murakami
  5. The world is full of ways and means to waste time – Haruki Murakami
  6. There is no style in dieting but we become beautiful when we change our style of living. – Debasish Mridha
  7. However strange your style may seem to others, never mind, because it is your style! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  8. God is willing to reveal His plans to us and His ways, if He sees that we are willing to stand till the end and take responsibility for our nation – Sunday Adelaja
  9. Things change everyday. With each new dawn, it is not the same world as before. And you’re not the same person you were either. – Haruki Murakami
  10. Grandfather always said school’s a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either. – Haruki Murakami
  11. The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own. – Betty Friedan
  12. A leader is someone who creates better ways of doing things and better ways are new and comfortable ways. – Israelmore Ayivor
  13. She and I were bound together at the border between life and death. It was like that for us from the start – Haruki Murakami
  14. In the old days, it had been talent and style and brilliance and now it was more and more productivity. – David Halberstam
  15. Renounce poor work.Shun trivial work.Entertain respectable work.Welcome superior work.Honor transcendent work. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  16. Style is the woman herself. – Amit Abraham
  17. Let your body work until it is spent, but keep your mind to yourself. – Haruki Murakami
  18. Let your body work until it is spent, but keep your mind for yourself. – Haruki Murakami
  19. Something will work out tomorrow, I thought. And if not, then tomorrow I’ll do some thinking. Ob-”la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on. – Haruki Murakami
  20. Nights without work I spent with whisky and books. – Haruki Murakami
  21. What happens outside you, and what happens inside you – happens in two entirely different worlds. You can take charge of only one of these worlds. – Manoj Arora
  22. I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer . . . I am a half-fast writer. – Robert Lynn Asprin
  23. A writer never takes a vacation. For a writer life consists of either writing or thinking about writing – Eugne Ionesco
  24. Match your talent with integrity, or your talent might take you places where you lose control, and fall from grace. – Kevin J Donaldson
  25. Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads. – Erica Jong
  26. The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours,’ [T.S.] Eliot wrote. ‘But less talent was wasted. – Jonah Lehrer
  27. Talent is only cream in your coffee. There is no reason to rest on your talent. If you don’t present it, then it gets nowhere. – Mies Van Der Rohe
  28. No one is born with a talent. Talent is something we create on our own with practice and dedication. – Airicka Phoenix
  29. Although it’s good to have talent, character is so much important because bad character is an enemy for great talent. – Gugu Mona
  30. Although it’s good to have talent, character is so much important because bad character is an enemy of great talent. – Gift Gugu Mona
  31. Remember that good poets too can write bad poems! Talent has also a talent to be untalented! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  32. Talent does not search for the person, in fact the person needs to search for the talent inside him and take it out to show the world. – Unarine Ramaru
  33. You may not have the power to control whatever happens to you, but you have the power to stop it from affecting your sense of style. – Israelmore Ayivor
  34. She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels that she could lose herself in there. – Anna Godbersen
  35. Her eyes reversed into herself, to watch the secret heart of herself pounding itself into pieces against the side of her chest. – Ray Bradbury
  36. … telling herself stories about herself in a singsong voice, creating her own mythology. – Abraham Verghese
  37. She held herself until the sobs of the child inside subsided entirely. I love you, she told herself. It will all be okay. – H Raven Rose
  38. She was herself in their company but a very specific version of herself. – Sara Sheridan
  39. The best part of a writer’s biography is not the record of his adventures but the story of his style. [Vogue, interview, 1969] – Vladimir Nabokov
  40. Japanese had never seen a Western-style circus, and most of them had probably never seen foreigners, either. – Frederik L Schodt

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