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160 quotesThe men who make history have not time to write it.
History and Historians
Klemens Von Metternich
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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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A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
Editing and Editors
Marianne Moore
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The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
Writers and Writing
John Mortimer
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I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
Writers and Writing
V. S. Naipaul
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A writer is a person who has solutions for which there are no riddles.
Writers and Writing
Gregory Nunn
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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
Excellence
Flannery O'Connor
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For a creative writer possession of the truth is less important than emotional sincerity.
Writers and Writing
George Orwell
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If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
Writers and Writing
Blaise Pascal
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Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
Writers and Writing
Octavio Paz
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Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.
Writers and Writing
Alexander Pope
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
Writers and Writing
Alexander Pope
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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
Childhood
Marcel Proust
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Better to be known as a sinner than a hypocrite.
Hypocrisy
Proverb
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Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Advice
Proverb
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Dancing with abandon, turning a tango into a fertility rite.
Dance and Dancing
Marshall Pugh
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Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.
Talent
Jules Renard
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To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
Writers and Writing
Anne Rice
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Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.
Writers and Writing
Jean Paul Richter
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Editing is the same as quarreling with writers -- same thing exactly.
Editing and Editors
Harold Wallace Ross
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The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
Writers and Writing
Leo Rosten
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How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
Heroes and Heroism
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.
Writers and Writing
Salman Rushdie
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun