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Write the news as if your very life depended on it. It does!
Journalism and Journalists
Heywood Broun

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Writers are the main landmarks of the past.
Writers and Writing
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
Arts and Artists
Albert Camus

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When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.
Autobiography
Elias Canetti

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We write our own destiny; we become what we do.
Destiny
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek

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The travel writer seeks the world we have lost --the lost valleys of the imagination.
Travel and Tourism
Alexander Cockburn

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If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!
Writers and Writing
Jackie Collins

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Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard.
Writers and Writing
James J. Corbett

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To write is a humiliation.
Writers and Writing
Edward Dahlberg

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An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
Originality
De Chateaubriand

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Writers are always selling somebody out.
Writers and Writing
Joan Didion

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Yes, it's hard to write, but it's harder not to.
Writers and Writing
Carl Van Doren

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We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Motivation
Peter F. Drucker

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Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.
Truth
Meister Eckhart

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I suppose some editors are failed writers; but so are most writers.
Editing and Editors
T. S. Eliot

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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Writers and Writing
T. S. Eliot

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.
Arts and Artists
Havelock Ellis

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We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.
Choice
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If you wish to be a writer; write!
Writers and Writing
Epictetus

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Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
Writers and Writing
Edna Ferber

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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
Writers and Writing
Edward M. Forster

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We all write poems. It is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
Poetry and Poets
John Fowles

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Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Lovers
Anatole France

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Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Writers and Writing
Benjamin Franklin

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Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
Service
Benjamin Franklin

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun