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The hardest part is making the time to write. Not finding the time to write, mind you. Making.
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The illiterate of the future are not those that cannot read or write. They are those that can not learn, unlearn, relearn.
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The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.
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The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have.
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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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The man who has done his level best, and who is conscious that he has done his best, is a success, even though the world may write him down as a failure.
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The men who make history have not time to write it.
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The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform something that I know is going to make people laugh.
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The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
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The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.
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The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape from death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present - henceforth? - the subject to which you are condemned.
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The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out.
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The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where I'm from. Well, I can't write a song on purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation.
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The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of ''Woman's Rights'' with all its attendant horrors on which her poor, feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety.
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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
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The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
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The secret of successful journalism is to make your readers so angry they will write half your paper for you.
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The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.
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