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234 quotesIf you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.
Speakers and Speaking
Dianna Booher
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
Genius
Christian Nevell Bovee
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For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
Writers and Writing
Catherine Drinker Bowen
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Great writers are the saints for the godless.
Writers and Writing
Anita Brookner
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Write the news as if your very life depended on it. It does!
Journalism and Journalists
Heywood Broun
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Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking--can.
Beauty
Helen Gurley Brown
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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
Arts and Artists
Duke of Buckingham
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Writers are the main landmarks of the past.
Writers and Writing
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.
Letters
Lord Byron
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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
Arts and Artists
Albert Camus
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When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.
Autobiography
Elias Canetti
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
Biography
Thomas Carlyle
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
Writers and Writing
Thomas Carlyle
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What a woman says to her avid lover should be written in wind and running water.
Promises
Catullus
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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.
Life and Living
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
Books - Reading
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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We write our own destiny; we become what we do.
Destiny
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
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The travel writer seeks the world we have lost --the lost valleys of the imagination.
Travel and Tourism
Alexander Cockburn
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If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!
Writers and Writing
Jackie Collins
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Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard.
Writers and Writing
James J. Corbett
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Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.
Critics and Criticism
Elvis Costello
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To write is a humiliation.
Writers and Writing
Edward Dahlberg
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Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
Writers and Writing
Edward Dahlberg
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The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
Books - Reading
Frank Dane
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Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe.
Custom
Charles Davenport
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun