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234 quotesI 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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A book might be written on the injustice of the just.
Books - Reading
Anthony Hope
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Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
Writers and Writing
Horace
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No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.
Poetry and Poets
Horace
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No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
Poetry and Poets
Horace
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The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.
Writers and Writing
Horace
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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.
Action
Lee Iacocca
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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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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
Conversation
Samuel Johnson
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If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
Slander
Samuel Johnson
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What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.
Memory
Samuel Johnson
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Books - Reading
Samuel Johnson
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Anyone who profits from the experience of others probably writes biographies.
Biography
Jones
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One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
Books - Reading
Benjamin Jowett
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It is difficult not to write satire.
Sarcasm
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal
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Writing is the incurable itch that possesses many.
Writers and Writing
(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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In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
King Jr. Martin Luther
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun