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

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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
Audiences
Gore Vidal

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I love being a writer, what I can't stand is the paperwork.
Writers and Writing
Peter De Vries

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