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You can make anything by writing. - C S Lewis

Easy reading is damn hard writing. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

I am a drinker with writing problems. - Brendan Behan

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

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

There is creative reading as well as creative writing. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fiction writing is great, you can make up almost anything. - Ivana Trump

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

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done. - Steven Wright

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

There is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. - Booker T Washington

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I met a man at a party. He said, "I'm writing a novel." I said, "Oh, really? Neither am I." - Peter Cook

I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance I was blessed with. - Sonia Sotomayor

Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking and writing. - Isaac B Singer

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

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