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Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.
Writers and Writing
Salman Rushdie

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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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I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.
Poetry and Poets
Carl Sandburg

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History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
History and Historians
George Santayana

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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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I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.
Health
Arnold Schwarzenegger

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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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Easy writings curse is hard reading.
Writers and Writing
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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Writing is not a profession, but a vocation of unhappiness.
Writers and Writing
Georges Simenon

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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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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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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.
Happiness
Boris Sokoloff

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Writing is the continuation of politics by other means.
Writers and Writing
Philippe Sollers

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

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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.
Humor
Stephen Sondheim

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

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The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
Writers and Writing
John Steinbeck

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The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
Writers and Writing
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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Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
Writers and Writing
Gloria Steinem

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