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Easy reading is damn hard writing. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

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

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

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

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. - Elvis Costello

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

Vegetarian: an old Indian word for "doesn't hunt well." - Paul Harvey

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

When writing the story of your life, don't let anyone else hold the pen. - Unknown

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

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up. - Ernest Hemingway

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

Writing is like sewing together what I call these 'buttons,' these bits and pieces. - Sandra Cisneros

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

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

As a child, I was subjected to a lot of spaghetti Westerns and hated them. I wanted the Indians to win. - Kara Walker

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

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

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

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

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

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth reading or do things worth the writing. - Benjamin Franklin

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

Stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a mental form of athleticism. - Julia Glass

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