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Vigorous writing is concise. - William Strunk, Jr.

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

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior. - Christina Baldwin

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

We can get all the Indians we need at the reservoir. - Samuel Goldwyn

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

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

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

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

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

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering. - Robert Frost

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

The greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make. - Truman Capote

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

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

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

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

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

Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall. - Alan Bennett

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

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

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

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