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I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was like that.
— Markus Zusak
The Masons may not have taught me much about how to treat a guest, but they taught me not to shoot at them unless it was absolutely necessary.
— Mira Grant
Oh, I wish that God had not given me what I prayed for! It was not so good as I thought.
— Johanna Spyri
I had always wanted to have children, so it caused me a lot of grief when I was younger, and I had supposed that gay people could not be parents.
— Andrew Solomon
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
— William Hazlitt
For me to propose a division of Jerusalem was really terrible. I did it because I reached a conclusion that without which there will not be peace.
— Ehud Olmert
It was more important for me to try, than to not have the chance at all.
— Rebecca Donovan
I could not sleep when I got on the hunt for an idea, until I had caught it. This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck with me.
— Abraham Lincoln
Well, why not just snap my damn olive branch and beat me with it? I was only trying to help.
— Carrie Butler
For whatever reason, college was just not a huge focus for me. I wasn't planning ahead. I just didn't think about it too much.
— Gwynne Shotwell
Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
— Gail Simmons
She used to tell me that she couldn't feel the sunlight anymore, not even when she was standing in it, not even when it was hot on her cheeks
— Kristin Hannah
I wanted someone to open doors and lend a helping hand, not because it was expected but because they wanted to. Because they liked me that much.
— Laurel Ulen Curtis
I wasn't bred to kill with my hands. I was trained to. There's a difference." "Not to me. It amounts to the same deadness.
— K.F. Breene
It was like some unseen force telling me you were it. Not to let you go. And every time I saw you with him ... I couldn't breathe.
— Carly Phillips
That wish - that prayer - both men and women would have scorned me for - "But, Father, Thou wilt not despise!" I said, and felt that it was true.
— Anne Bronte
It was very relaxing to be away from civilization, and this bothered me. I should not have found the loneliness so welcoming.
— Stephenie Meyer
I can hear the Colonel - no land was ever acquired honestly in the history of the earth - but it does not make me feel any better.
— Philipp Meyer
Killing prostitutes had become an obsession with me. I could not stop myself. It was like a drug.
— Peter Sutcliffe
The truth is I don't regret it. It was the right decision [not run for president] for my family, and the right decision for me.
— Joe Biden
I dropped my dress to the floor and sat on the sofa with renewed determination. This man was going to have sex with me whether he liked it or not.
— Denise Grover Swank
It was books that taught me that perhaps I was not alone.
— Cassandra Clare
I don't know why I went with him. Maybe it was because he'd said he'd missed me, and I was sick and tired of not being wanted.
— J.L. Merrow
I was writing of something I did not know about, and it seems to me that in a so-called writer this is criminal.
— John Steinbeck
I was new to sorrow, but it did not the less alarm me.
— Mary Shelley
It was fun while it lasted, but it never seemed real to me. I could not believe I was in Van Halen.
— Gary Cherone
But courage was growing in me too. Little by little it was getting harder and harder for me not to speak out.
— Anne Moody
What surprised me about 'The Casual Vacancy' was not just how good it was, but the particular way in which it was good.
— Lev Grossman
I was strong enough not to let them get the best of me, but I'm definitely one who has taken what people say to heart and let it eat away at me.
— Beverley Mitchell
Peace made him bold; his life was in God's hands, and there it would always stay. 'The Lord is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?
— C.R. Hedgcock
Chief point was that all this was, as it were, not accidental in me, but as though it were bound to be so.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
It never really was difficult for me not starting because I understood the circumstances.
— Cedric Benson
The pain was a river I rode; I could not plant my feet in it or it would knock me down
— Frances Greenslade
For the first time in my life I've done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it was good or bad.
— Lauren Oliver
It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation.
— Marian Wright Edelman
Can you be brave?' I did not know. I did not think so. It seemed to me that all I had done so far that night was to run from things.
— Neil Gaiman
Advice is not really very useful. People gave me terrible advice, and I guess I was just smart enough to ignore some of it.
— Travis Morrison
No one could tell me not to eat an entire cake - not my mom, not Santa, not God - no one. It was my cake and everyone else could go fuck themselves.
— Allie Brosh
I did not find him absurd. I saw he was kind, that he was on the verge of real love. I thought it would be nice for me to be in love with him, too.
— Francoise Sagan
Therefore it was not pride that took me into the village twice a week, or even stubbornness, but only the simple need for books and food.
— Shirley Jackson
I had enjoyed something that did not belong to me, you see. When it was taken away, I was disappointed but not harmed.
— Mary Doria Russell
My dad always, he helped me by not helping me. He always said, being a producer, it was all about conviction.
— Thomas Langmann
I never thought I was breaking a glass ceiling. I just had to do what I had to do, and it never occurred to me not to.
— Marian Wright Edelman
You kissed me yes, But it was not just goodnight even then I could feel the promise in it. The promise that you could kiss me like that forever.
— Nicholas Sparks
And I knew that I could not bear the thought of never hearing that laughter any more. For me, it was like a spring of fresh water in the desert.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
It was never about you not being what I wanted. It was me not knowing that what I had was everything I needed.
— Corinne Michaels
It is not often one chooses a demon over an angel.
So they told me. But this demon was the only one who made me feel safe. — Heather Heffner
So they told me. But this demon was the only one who made me feel safe. — Heather Heffner
The story she had told me was possible, but it was not believable.
— Giacomo Casanova
I was going through the motions of life, instead of really living, and there's no excuse for that. It's not something I'll let happen to me again.
— Charles De Lint
But I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was not a very happy time for me.
— Dinah Sheridan
I'm not saying she was very silly, but one of us was very silly and it wasn't me.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
It's never lost on me that it was the religious who Jesus had to challenge not to throw stones.
— Steve Maraboli
The fact the book was a tragic one did not make me unhappy since I believed that life was a tragedy and knew it could have only one end.
— Ernest Hemingway,
I always said to myself that the minute I thought I'd slipped, and not be the player I wanted to be, it was time for me to go.
— Joe Sakic
Feeling her against me, I was reminded of desire. Would that always be the case now - not desire, but only the reminder of it?
— Graham Greene
However, my wine told me not to worry about it. And who was I to argue with wine? It had never steered me wrong before.
— Aly Martinez
You're killing me, Rebecca," Law muttered, probably not realizing that in his case, it really was a double entendre.
— Meg Cooper
It was romance though that compelled me, not lust; I wanted to lose myself in a woman, to have an ally, a partner, a girlfriend.
— Anonymous
It was a strange way of killing, not by inches, but by fractions of hairbreadths, to beguile me with the spectre of a hope, through eighteen years!
— Emily Bronte
He found me, and whether he knew it or not, I was his, in a way.
You know what they say ...
Finders keepers. — Belle Aurora
You know what they say ...
Finders keepers. — Belle Aurora
If I walked in on two of my clones having sex, I'd think it was gay, incestuous, and just plain rude to have not invited me.
— Jarod Kintz
Blessed with so many resources within myself the world was not necessary to me. I could do very well without it.
— Jane Austen
Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he had in mind.
— Margaret Atwood
It was not I who was teaching my cat to gather rosebuds, but she who was teaching me.
— Irving Townsend
It's the first film that I made where the director was not present under the camera, and it threw me.
— Leslie Caron
I didn't go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.
— Agnes Varda
I knew I never was, and never would be, someone she loved. And whether she deserved me or not, it was still painful to admit.
— Rebecca Donovan
All the work built my fame and certainly made me more money, but the toll it took in my home was not good.
— Jamie Lee Curtis
It makes me forget that I'm not going to be a major star and lead female in films whether it was 20 years ago, 10 years ago, five or in the future.
— Pam Grier
Nobody was hard with him or with me. There was duty to be done, and it was done, but not harshly.
— Charles Dickens
It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
— Zola Jesus
People often expect me to be very serious, but it's not like my record company told me not to smile in photographs, because I was like that anyway.
— Jose Gonzalez
I wanted to quit Nichia. I didn't care about anything. It was OK for them to fire me. I was not afraid of anything.
— Shuji Nakamura
New York had impressed me as a place where there was lots of money and not much difficulty in getting it.
— James Weldon Johnson
And when I retired, trust me, not only did Nolan Ryan, but the entire Ryan family had withdrawals from baseball. And it was tough.
— Nolan Ryan
He called me a pie!" she announced, defensively. There was a pause. "Wait. That's not right."
"A tart?"
"Yes! That's it! — Sarah MacLean
"A tart?"
"Yes! That's it! — Sarah MacLean
After several interactions in which he questioned my authority and pretended not to hear me speaking, it was clear he was my type
— Lena Dunham
I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.
— Winston Churchill
It's not that I'm apolitical ... In my youth, I was a freelance political speechwriter, which taught me a lot about writing fiction, I must add.
— Susan Isaacs
And there he was. Standing not five feet away from me. It took me a second to realize, and then I was airborn and throwing myself at him.
— Chelsea M. Cameron
You're not in love with me. You never wanted to marry me, did you?' 'It was the twilight,' he said wonderingly.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Mine. He was mine, and not even death would take him from me - not if I could help it.
— Patricia Briggs
So this was what it was like not to be me.
— Miranda July
I tried not to think about it too much, though. I was good at mental hide and seek. If I couldn't see it, it couldn't see me. I
— April White
It occurred to me then that a lot of life was either about wanting and not having, or having and not wanting.
— Deb Caletti
There was not an industry for child actors. I never really made any money. It was all about fun for me.
— Michiel Huisman
I'll always want you, Olivia. It was never about not wanting you, it was about wanting you too much and you not wanting me back!
— Tarryn Fisher
And his love was heavy and hot, but not at all the burden I'd imagined it would be because he carried it for me, I realized now.
— Laurelin Paige