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Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.
Insults
Benjamin Franklin

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I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
Poetry and Poets
Robert Frost

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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
Books - Reading
Robert Frost

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He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
Writers and Writing
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts.
Writers and Writing
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
Critics and Criticism
Oliver Goldsmith

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I don't think anybody should write his autobiography until after he's dead.
Autobiography
Samuel Goldwyn

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A writer should be a joyous optimist. Anything that implies rejection of life is wrong for a writer.
Writers and Writing
George Gribbon

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If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, You Only Live Once.
Devil
Sidney J. Harris

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A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
Comedy and Comedians
Ernest Hemingway

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I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
Writers and Writing
Ernest Hemingway

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The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.
Writers and Writing
Ernest Hemingway

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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Writers and Writing
Ernest Hemingway

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Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
Travel and Tourism
Ernest Hemingway

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If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge
Critics and Criticism
Napoleon Hill

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Oh, write of me, not Died in bitter pains, but Emigrated to another star!
Epitaphs
Helen Hunt Jackson

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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
Writers and Writing
Henry James

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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
Science and Scientists
P. D. James

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Anyone who profits from the experience of others probably writes biographies.
Biography
Jones

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It is difficult not to write satire.
Sarcasm
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal

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I write plays for people who wouldn't be seen dead in the theatre.
Theater
Barrie Keeffe

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It's easier to find a new audience than to write a new speech.
Audiences
Dan Kennedy

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What God writes on your forehead you will become.
Destiny
The Koran

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A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
Writers and Writing
Karl Kraus

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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
Writers and Writing
D. H. Lawrence

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