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You can make anything by writing. - C S Lewis

I am a drinker with writing problems. - Brendan Behan

Writing is a struggle against silence. - Carlos Fuentes

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

Television has raised writing to a new low. - Samuel Goldwyn

I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography. - Steven Wright

The point of good writing is knowing when to stop. - L.M. Montgomery

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

Writing is throwing spaghetti at a wall to see what sticks. - Kelly E. Lindner

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

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

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors. - Edward Dahlberg

Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you. - Marsha Norman

When writing the story of your life, don't let anyone else hold the pen. - Unknown

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

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

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. - Jules Renard

Writing is mentally stimulating; it's like a puzzle that makes you think all the time. - Stephanie Zimbalist

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

When my friends and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker. - Robin Williams

Writing is like sewing together what I call these 'buttons,' these bits and pieces. - Sandra Cisneros

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

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

Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall. - Alan Bennett

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

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

They're picking bananas in Brazil and them Indians down there, they don't care about what you look like. - Archie Bunker

I can't understand why you don't get any mail from me. Perhaps it's because I haven't been writing. - Groucho Marx

Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing. - Ben Hecht

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

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second. - Robert Frost

Doing well with blogging is not about writing one key post, it is about performing day after day and helping a few people at a time. - Aaron Wall

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

I love writing for women. The willingness to go from laughter to tears in a moment is the greatest palette you can paint with as a writer. - Michael P King