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Vigorous writing is concise. - William Strunk, Jr.

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

I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography. - Steven Wright

Goose: A bird that supplies quills for writing - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

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

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

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book. - Shereen El Feki

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do. - Shania Twain

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

Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked. - Zebulon Pike

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

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

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from. - 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

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. - Ray Bradbury

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