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Easy reading is damn hard writing. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Early on, if I was alone two or three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide. - Jack Nicholson

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

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

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

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

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

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