Indian Writing

Vigorous writing is concise. - William Strunk, Jr.

I am a drinker with writing problems. - Brendan Behan

That's not writing, that's typing. - Truman Capote

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior. - Christina Baldwin

I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography. - Steven Wright

We can get all the Indians we need at the reservoir. - Samuel Goldwyn

Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread. - Ion Tiriac

You can't have all chiefs; you gotta have Indians too. - American Proverb

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. - Robert Frost

Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit. - Aristippus

People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it. - Tabitha King

Vegetarian: an old Indian word for "doesn't hunt well." - Paul Harvey

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing about. - Benjamin Franklin

Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. - Francis Bacon

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. - Ernest Hemingway

Are you Indian or Pakistani? I can never tell the difference between you chaps. - Prince Philip

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering. - Robert Frost

I write by ear. I tried writing with the typewriter, but I found it too unwieldy. - Groucho Marx

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up. - Ernest Hemingway

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. - Cicero

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. - W Somerset Maugham

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on. - Louis L'Amour

The greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make. - Truman Capote

That's what Columbus said to the Indians just before he gypped 'em out of Manhattan. - Archie Bunker

The writing of more than 75 poems in any fiscal year should be punishable by a fine of $500. - Ed Sanders

Indian people, we are proud of our cheapness. You are never gonna insult us by calling us cheap. - Russell Peters

Early on, if I was alone two or three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide. - Jack Nicholson

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. - John Updike

As a child, I was subjected to a lot of spaghetti Westerns and hated them. I wanted the Indians to win. - Kara Walker

We took pictures of the native girls, but they weren't developed.
But we're going back next week. - Groucho Marx

Indians are so dedicated to being so cheap for so long, that Indian people actually created the number zero. - Russell Peters

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. - Ernest Hemingway

Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank piece of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. - Gene Fowler

Indians are the second largest population in the world, but we're invisible on TV - everything is either black or white. - Russell Peters

Writing a new play shouldn't be seen as a mystery belonging to a priesthood, but as a technical challenge, just to get into it. - Ton Stoppard

My writing philosophy is throwing spaghetti against the wall. That's how I take pictures, too. If I take 100, surely one will be good. - Amanda Peet

Stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a mental form of athleticism. - Julia Glass

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him, better take a closer look at the American Indian. - Henry Ford

Think while walking, walk while thinking, and let writing be but the light pause, as the body on a walk rests in contemplation of wide open spaces. - Frederic Gros