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If you write for yourself, you'll reach all the people you want to write for.

"On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction". Book by William Zinsser (Chapter 12 "Writing About Yourself: The Memoir," p. 98), 1976.

Money makes up in a measure all other wants in men.

William Wycherley (2012). “Four Great Restoration Comedies”, p.25, Courier Corporation

I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.

William Tecumseh Sherman, Brooks D. Simpson, Jean Vance Berlin (1999). “Sherman's Civil War: selected correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860-1865”, The University of North Carolina Press

I don't want money badly enough to work for it.

"William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

It is the mysterious that I love in painting. It is the stillness and the silence. I want my pictures to take effect very slowly, to obsess and to haunt.

William Baziotes, Michael Preble (1988). “William Baziotes: Paintings and Works on Paper, 1952-1961 : 7 March-31 March, 1984”

I don't want to be an icon. I want to be an idea. I want to represent possibilities.

"Actor-musician Will Smith". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. December 13, 2007.