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  1. Terry Tempest Williams _ When Women Were Birds:

    To be read. To be heard. To be seen. I want to be read, I want to be heard. I don't need to be seen. To write requires an ego, a belief that what you say matters. Writing also requires an aching curiosity leading you to discover, uncover, what is gnawing at your bones. Words have a weight to them. How you choose to present them and to whom is a matter of style and choice.
    book-quotewritingwriterego

  2. Simone Elkeles _ Rules of Attraction

    I want to make sure Kiara's got a boyfriend who has more to offer than a hot bod and a face that could make angels weep.
    book-quoteego

  3. Simone Elkeles _ Rules of Attraction

    Do you ever lose the ego?" Westford asks me."Yeah." When his daughter kisses me, my ego flies out the window.
    book-quoteegoconversationwestford

  4. Anne Rice _ Interview with the Vampire

    And I realized that I'd tolerated him this long because of self-doubt."
    book-quoteego

  5. Zia Haider Rahman _ In the Light of What We Know

    Zafar argues that the greatest influence on a writer may be on her psychic dispositions as a writer. Reading Philip Roth, writes Zafar, might clear the way of inhibitions that held you back from writing about reckless desire, the temptations of power, and the immanence of rage, or reading Naipaul might convince you to seize the ego that so wants to be loved, drag it outside, put it up against a wall, and shoot it."
    book-quotewritingegowriters

  6. Tahir Shah _ House of the Tiger King: The

    The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.
    book-quoteegoglory

  7. Walter Isaacson _ American Sketches: Great

    Kissinger would probably be outraged even if he reread his own memoirs, on the grounds that they are not favorable enough.
    book-quotereflectionegohumility

  8. Margaret Atwood _ The Blind Assassin

    Thinking he knows can be a trap. An ex-professor once told him he had a diamond-hard intellect and he'd been flattered at the time. Now he considers the nature of diamonds. Although sharp and glittering and useful for cutting glass, they shine with reflected light only. They're no use at all in the dark
    book-quoteegointellect

  9. Mitch Albom _ Tuesdays with Morrie

    Mitch," he said, "the culture doesn't encourage you to think about such things until you're about to die. We're so wrapped up in egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks - we're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don't get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?
    book-quotelifediethink
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