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Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's… — Stephen Leacock
Contrary to what many of you may imagine, a career in letters is not without its drawbacks - chief among them the unpleasant fact that… — Fran Lebowitz
You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it. — Ursula K. Le Guin
And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers, the agents, the… — Doris Lessing
To finish is a sadness to a writer - a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn't… — John Steinbeck
In the camp, this meant committing my verse-many thousands of lines-to memory. To help me with this I improvised decimal counting beads and, in transit… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I'd like to have seen Tony Morley left on as a down-and-out winger. — Jimmy Armfield
Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's… — Jimmy Carter
Of the sparkling wines, the most famous is Perth Pink. This is a bottle with a message in, and the message is "beware". This is… — Eric Idle
You were hidden behind walls of ice; no man had passed them; I broke them down and love leapt to love, and you lie here,… — James M. Barrie
Each individual cat got up and did his thing. It wasn't like today where they come down and put down some nice linoleum so you… — Unknown Author
And you want to know why track and field is dying in this country? Kids today can watch Kobe Bryant go end-to-end and Randy Moss… — Mike Penner
I love controlling a race, chewing up an opponent. Let's get down and dirty. Let's fight it out. It's raw, animalistic, with no one to… — Adam Goucher
Physiologists and high-performance trainers understand now that the concept of 110 percent is no longer a smart way to train. Fitness is like the blade… — Sally Jenkins
Ignore the naysayers. Really the only option is, head down and focus on the job. — Chris Pine
I discharge every person under punishment or prosecution under the Sedition Law, because I considered, and now consider, that law to be a nullity as… — Thomas Jefferson
One great blemish in the popular mind of America and the prolific parent of an innumerable brood of evils, is Universal Distrust . . .… — Charles Dickens
Two [Massachusetts coal burning power plants] remain: Brayton Point in the South Coast region and Mt. Tom, just down the road. Within the next four… — Deval Patrick
Once I got to be about twenty-five, I got interested in the music of the time. I started smokin' dope, I started drinking, I started… — Gregory Hines
The greatest of all our human concepts is the immortality of the personality and the eternal glory of the human soul. Throughout eternity you will… — Sterling W Sill

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