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A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.
Music
Colin Wilson

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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
Philosophers and Philosophy
Ludwig Wittgenstein

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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
Writers and Writing
Virginia Woolf

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.
Life and Living
Steven Wright

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Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
Books - Reading
Yevgeny Zamyatin

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Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.
Writers and Writing
William Zinsser

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Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.
Writers and Writing
William Zinsser

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Writing is a craft not an art.
Writers and Writing
William Zinsser

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Writing is thinking on paper.
Writers and Writing
William Zinsser

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