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234 quotesWhat God writes on your forehead you will become.
Destiny
The Koran
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A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
Writers and Writing
Karl Kraus
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The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
Writers and Writing
Walter Savage Landor
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
Writers and Writing
D. H. Lawrence
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The cure for writers cramp is writer's block.
Writers and Writing
Inigo de Leon
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We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
Writers and Writing
Cecil Day Lewis
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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
Writers and Writing
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
Ambiguity
Abraham Lincoln
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No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.
Language
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.
Books - Reading
Martin Luther
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Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one!
Letters
Sir John A. Macdonald
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Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
Writers and Writing
Norman Mailer
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I never think when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them well.
Writers and Writing
Don Marquis
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Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.
Writers and Writing
Groucho Marx
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It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
Writers and Writing
W. Somerset Maugham
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The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
Writers and Writing
W. Somerset Maugham
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The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
Writers and Writing
W. Somerset Maugham
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There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately no one knows what they are.
Writers and Writing
W. Somerset Maugham
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The men who make history have not time to write it.
History and Historians
Klemens Von Metternich
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Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.
Writers and Writing
Paul J. Meyer
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Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.
Chaos
Henry Miller
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Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
Writers and Writing
Olin Miller
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Let those who would write heroic poems make their life an heroic poem.
Writers and Writing
John Milton
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I always write a good first line, but I have trouble in writing the others.
Writers and Writing
Moliere
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It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
Poetry and Poets
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun