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  • James J. Corbett Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard.
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  • John Milton Let those who would write heroic poems make their life an heroic poem.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • John Donne Let us love nobly, and live, and add again years and years unto years, till we attain to write threescore: this is the second of our reign.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Aaron Hill Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near; Their magic force each silent wish conveys, And wafts embodied though, a thousand ways: Could souls to bodies write, death's pow'r were mean, For minds could then meet minds with heav'n between.
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Carl Hiaasen Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Anatole France Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Brantley Gilbert Main thing, really, is I write songs the way I wanna hear them and the way I think the people that come to our shows wanna hear them.
    Brantley Gilbert
    American country music singer, songwriter (1985 - )
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  • Alice Walker Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • William Shakespeare Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues we write in water.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Eric Hoffer More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Frank Zappa Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.
    Frank Zappa
    American rock musician (1940 - 1993)
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  • Ben Hecht Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of them - as an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Brendan Myers My earliest interest in game design came when I was in primary school, and my parents bought a Commodore 128 computer. I taught myself to write programs in BASIC, and then I made my own games.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bonnie Tyler My father used to tape 'Top of the Pops' for me every Sunday, and I would sit in my bedroom, write down the lyrics of all of my favourite songs, and sing along. I was always singing in my bedroom with a hairbrush.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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  • Salman Rushdie My horizon's have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Augusten Burroughs My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Berkeley Breathed My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids.
    Berkeley Breathed
    American cartoonist, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Bernard Sahlins My theory is that everything an actor does, from the way he looks at his watch to the way he moves across the stage, is in the service of advancing a story, and in that sense, it's all writing. In that sense we, while acting, write.
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