Quotes with non-writing-joke

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  • Bruce Cockburn The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Horace The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Oswald Spengler The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
    Oswald Spengler
    German philosopher of history and historian (1880 - 1936)
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  • Richard Harding Davis The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.
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  • Augusten Burroughs 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.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Ann Macbeth The State Film Authority will be there for film as industry only, as is the case in all the other states, except Victoria. Victoria is moving more now into supporting non-commercial films.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • Bob Shacochis The stories are there first, and they come from my experiences wandering around in the world. They will resonate into bigger things, forces sweeping the planet, themes and archetypes, but I'm not smart enough to have lucid integration of all that in my head as I'm writing.
    Bob Shacochis
    American writer (1951 - )
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  • Iain Banks The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.
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    Iain Banks
    Scottish author (1954 - 2013)
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  • Eldridge Cleaver The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion, and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.
    Eldridge Cleaver
    American afro-amerikan leader, writer (1935 - 1998)
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  • John Irving The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me.
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • Berry Gordy The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you did things, or they hear things from other people.
    Berry Gordy
    American record executive, record and film producer and songwriter (1929 - )
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  • Bill Gates The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • James Fenton The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.
    James Fenton
    English poet, journalist and literary (1949 - )
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  • Walter Savage Landor The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • Bernard Cornwell Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to wrench your attention away from what you're writing and try to remember what you were thinking when you wrote the previous one.
    Bernard Cornwell
    British author of historical novels (1944 - )
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  • Billy Bragg There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them.
    Billy Bragg
    English singer-songwriter (1957 - )
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  • Heisenberg There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.
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  • William Somerset Maugham There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable.
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • I. D'Israeli There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
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