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  • Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.
  • There are some writers who wrote too much. There are others who wrote enough. There are yet others who wrote nothing like enough to satisfy their admirers, and Jane Austen is certainly one of these.
  • I'm a strong nonbeliever in the Christmas letter where you don't really read it because it's just full of kind of meaningless information. It doesn't really resonate to the person reading it, but it means so much to the person that wrote it.
  • I'd like just to be remembered as a guy that came along and did his music, did his best and showed up on time, clean and ready to do the job, wrote a few songs, and had a hell of a time.
  • I wrote 'Reaching for the Moon' because I wanted to tell kids that all of us have a moon, a dream, that we can strive for. Even if you don't attain it, you can at least reach for it.
  • The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.
  • You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What - doesn't make a difference! Doesn't make a difference. I think he did a good job.
  • Hey, hey, Woody Guthrie, I wrote you a song, 'bout a funny ol' world that's a-comin' along
  • 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.
  • His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death.
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  • Mark Twain refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Lewis Carroll ''Write that down,'' the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.
    Alice in wonderland
    Lewis Carroll
    British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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  • Bel Powley 'Diary of a Teenage Girl' was my first American movie. It was my first movie in an American accent. It's based on a graphic novel, which was written in 2002 by someone called Phoebe Gloeckner. It was turned into a play by Marielle Heller, who then wrote it as a screenplay for Sundance Labs.
    Bel Powley
    English actress (1992 - )
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  • Bruce Cockburn 'Each One Lost' I wrote the day after I got home. My week in Afghanistan was a very short trip, but it was a powerful experience.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Cat Stevens 'Peace Train' is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions. There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Anne McCaffrey A good story is a good story no matter who wrote it.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Frank Gelett Burgess Ah, yes, I wrote the ''Purple Cow'' - I'm sorry, now, I wrote it! But I can tell you, anyhow, I'll kill you if you quote it.
    Frank Gelett Burgess
    American artist, art critic and poet
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  • Dorothy Parker All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Bob Kane Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination.
    Bob Kane
    American comic book writer, animator and artist (1915 - 1998)
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  • Carolyn Kizer As I remember, the first real poem I wrote was about the wheat fields between Spokane and Pullman, to the south.
    Carolyn Kizer
     
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  • Barry Unsworth As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences.
    Barry Unsworth
    English writer (1930 - 2012)
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  • Bob Kane Bill Finger was a contributing force on Batman right from the beginning. He wrote most of the great stories and was influential in setting the style and genre other writers would emulate... I made Batman a superhero-vigilante when I first created him. Bill turned him into a scientific detective.
    Bob Kane and Tom Andrae (1989)
    Bob Kane
    American comic book writer, animator and artist (1915 - 1998)
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  • Bruno Dumont Cinema builds memories; great films continue to exist in the spectator's mind. We are naturally capable of and prone to nostalgia. A spectator will reconstruct a film he or she has seen, years later, and may even change their original opinion. One critic, for example, once gave the finger to one of my films; later he wrote me to apologize.
    Bruno Dumont
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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  • Brendan Myers Complex astronomical instruments like the Antikythera Mechanism and the Nebra Sky Disk were made by Pagans. Our Pagan intellectual heritage includes poets and scientists and literary intellectuals of every kind, especially including those who wrote some of the most important and influential books in all of Western history.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Alice Hamilton Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem.
    Alice Hamilton
    American physician, research scientist, and author (1869 - 1970)
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  • Bonnie Jo Campbell For 'King Cole's American Salvage,' I rode around in the wrecker with a local driver and watched him deal with customers and hook up the cars. I watched the guy who tore apart the cars in the junkyard. I also wrote poems about those guys. I loved hanging around the yard.
    Bonnie Jo Campbell
    American writer
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  • August Wilson For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else.
    August Wilson
    American playwright (1945 - 2005)
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  • Carl Sandburg Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Bob Dylan Hey, hey, Woody Guthrie, I wrote you a song, 'bout a funny ol' world that's a-comin' along
    Bob Dylan (1962)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Evelyn Waugh His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death.
    Evelyn Waugh
    British novelist (1903 - 1966)
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