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The cure for writers cramp is writer's block.
Writers and Writing
Inigo de Leon

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We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
Writers and Writing
Cecil Day Lewis

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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
Writers and Writing
Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
Ambiguity
Abraham Lincoln

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Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one!
Letters
Sir John A. Macdonald

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I never think when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them well.
Writers and Writing
Don Marquis

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Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.
Writers and Writing
Groucho Marx

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It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
Writers and Writing
W. Somerset Maugham

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The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
Writers and Writing
W. Somerset Maugham

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The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
Writers and Writing
W. Somerset Maugham

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The men who make history have not time to write it.
History and Historians
Klemens Von Metternich

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Let those who would write heroic poems make their life an heroic poem.
Writers and Writing
John Milton

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I always write a good first line, but I have trouble in writing the others.
Writers and Writing
Moliere

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It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
Poetry and Poets
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
Editing and Editors
Marianne Moore

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The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
Writers and Writing
John Mortimer

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I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
Writers and Writing
V. S. Naipaul

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A writer is a person who has solutions for which there are no riddles.
Writers and Writing
Gregory Nunn

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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
Excellence
Flannery O'Connor

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For a creative writer possession of the truth is less important than emotional sincerity.
Writers and Writing
George Orwell

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If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
Writers and Writing
Blaise Pascal

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Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
Writers and Writing
Octavio Paz

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Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.
Writers and Writing
Alexander Pope

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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
Writers and Writing
Alexander Pope

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Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Advice
Proverb

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