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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

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

I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography. - Steven Wright

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Of all the useless things a person can do, limerick writing is right up there with golf and fishing. - Garrison Keillor

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

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

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

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