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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
Speech
Robert Louis Stevenson

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Let's face it, writing is hell.
Writers and Writing
William Styron

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I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.
Scholars and Scholarship
J. M. Synge

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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
Books - Reading
Henry David Thoreau

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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Writers and Writing
Henry David Thoreau

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Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.
Grammar
Mark Twain

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All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
Writers and Writing
Source Unknown

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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.
Goals
Source Unknown

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Poetry doesn't belong to those who write it, but to those who need it.
Poetry and Poets
Source Unknown

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Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
Heroes and Heroism
Source Unknown

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The written word can be erased -- not so with the spoken word.
Words
Source Unknown

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You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.
Writers and Writing
Source Unknown

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A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.
Theater
Gore Vidal

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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
Audiences
Gore Vidal

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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
Fiction
Gore Vidal

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The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.
Writers and Writing
Mary Heaton Vorse

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I love being a writer, what I can't stand is the paperwork.
Writers and Writing
Peter De Vries

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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
Writers and Writing
Alice Walker

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Good writing is clear thinking made visible.
Writers and Writing
Bill Wheeler

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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
Writers and Writing
Elwyn Brooks White

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Unconsciousness is one of the most important conditions of good style in speaking and writing.
Speakers and Speaking
R. S. White

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Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
Speech
Alfred North Whitehead

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Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
History and Historians
Oscar Wilde

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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.
Disciples
Oscar Wilde

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He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone.
Aphorisms and Epigrams
Oscar Wilde

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun