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234 quotesIf I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us.
Writers and Writing
William Faulkner
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Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
Writers and Writing
Edna Ferber
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The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.
The future
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
Writers and Writing
Edward M. Forster
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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.
Life and Living
Edward M. Forster
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We all write poems. It is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
Poetry and Poets
John Fowles
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Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Lovers
Anatole France
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Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Writers and Writing
Benjamin Franklin
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Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
Service
Benjamin Franklin
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Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.
Insults
Benjamin Franklin
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I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
Poetry and Poets
Robert Frost
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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
Books - Reading
Robert Frost
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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
Poetry and Poets
Robert Frost
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
Literature
Andre Gide
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He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
Writers and Writing
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts.
Writers and Writing
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
Critics and Criticism
Oliver Goldsmith
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A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
Agreement
Samuel Goldwyn
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I don't think anybody should write his autobiography until after he's dead.
Autobiography
Samuel Goldwyn
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A writer should be a joyous optimist. Anything that implies rejection of life is wrong for a writer.
Writers and Writing
George Gribbon
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
Belief
David Hare
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If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, You Only Live Once.
Devil
Sidney J. Harris
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A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
Scholars and Scholarship
William Hazlitt
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There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!
Fame
William Hazlitt
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A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
Comedy and Comedians
Ernest Hemingway
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun