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#1. We immigrants can sometimes sound a little hysterical about this because we come from places that have tried this and we know where it leads. Anybody who's lived in countries with socialized health care knows that it becomes the dominant political issue.

Mark Steyn

#2. If you enter a race and finish last, you are a winner. The loser never entered the race.

Roger Crawford

#3. But he had heavy hands with thick muscular fingers and black fingernails and there was a look of power to him, a coiled tight set to the way he stood, balanced, ugly, slightly contemptuous, but watchful, trying to gauge Chamberlain's strength.

Shaara

#4. I've always put myself intensely into my work.

Josefina Vazquez Mota

#5. Very few writers really know what they are doing until they've done it.

Anne Lamott

#6. She had wanted her son to stand for what he believed and to be respectful. And he had died for believing his friends had a right to play their music loud, to be American teenagers.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#7. It was worse
knowing he knew the difference between kindness and cruelty and chose the baser of the two.

C.J. Roberts

#8. It usually takes me about three years to research and write one of my historical sagas; this is one reason why I take medieval mystery breaks, for they can be completed in only a year.

Sharon Kay Penman

#9. It always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair.

Chinua Achebe

#10. My friends would howl if I claimed I was androgynous - I'm not tall enough!

Sophie McShera

#11. I wrote my first book without being to Ethiopia since I was two years old.

Dinaw Mengestu

#12. Dignity is for people who have options. We

Joe Hill