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I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.
Writers and Writing
Bertrand Russell

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We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more privileges.
Difficulties
Abram Sacher

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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
Fools and Foolishness
Arthur Schopenhauer

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Do not on any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once.
Examinations
W. C. Sellar

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Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues we write in water.
Virtue
William Shakespeare

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I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.
Movies
Sam Shepard

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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
Writers and Writing
Isaac Bashevis Singer

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The waste basket is a writer's best friend.
Editing and Editors
Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.
Sports
Mike Singletary

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Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
Writers and Writing
Dr. Walter Smith

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Aggression, the writer's main source of energy.
Aggression
Ted Solotaroff

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The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.
Writers and Writing
Susan Sontag

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Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
Books - Reading
Steven Spielberg

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Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
Sincerity
Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
Critics and Criticism
John Steinbeck

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Writers are a little below the clowns and a little above the trained seals.
Writers and Writing
John Steinbeck

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I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.
Scholars and Scholarship
J. M. Synge

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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Writers and Writing
Henry David Thoreau

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Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.
Grammar
Mark Twain

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Opportunity's favorite disguise is trouble.
Trouble
Frank Tyger

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Poetry doesn't belong to those who write it, but to those who need it.
Poetry and Poets
Source Unknown

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Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
Heroes and Heroism
Source Unknown

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The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.
Politicians and Politics
Source Unknown

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We have inherited the past; we can create the future.
The future
Source Unknown

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You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.
Writers and Writing
Source Unknown

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