By Anne Frank
If I haven’t any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.

By Anne Frank
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Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men’s stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
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We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.
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To a poet every curve of her was a well place word.
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Poetry is composing, you are writing words to move the world like music.
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One day I’ll paint the perfect sunset – if I can only find the words.
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With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
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Common people are merely intent on spending time – whoever has some talent, on making use of it.
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No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.
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A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new content.
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Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
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Ordinary people merely think how they shall ‘spend’ their time; a man of talent tries to ‘use’ it.
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He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.
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The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.
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A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
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For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
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The savants will write excellent volumes. There will be laureates. But wars will continue just the same until the forces of the circumstances render them impossible.
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There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.