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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

Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult. - Leo Tolstoy

I'm Irish and Cherokee Indian. I can't faint. - Lynn Collins

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

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

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

How do they get the deer to cross at that yellow road sign? - George Carlin

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

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

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

Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure. - Yancy Butler

I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it. - Anthony Storr

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

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

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

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

Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. - Ivern Ball

What do people do with all the extra time they save by writing 'k' instead of 'ok'? - Unknown

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If Aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans. - Stephen Hawking

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