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Anyone buying this book is going to be out a tidy sum if he is sucked in by the title. I wish I could write… — Groucho Marx
If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, "You Only Live Once." — Sydney J. Harris
Do not on any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once. — W. C. Sellar
Some people play golf. Some are artists, Some jog. I like to write. — Barbara Boxer
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. — Larry Wall
I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love. — Walt Whitman
If by chance I seated myself to write, she very slyly, very tenderly, seeking protection and caresses, would softly take her place on my knee… — Pierre Loti
Why write a book on uncovering past lives? Because the benefits for personal empowerment, healing, and enlightenment are tremendous. — Ted Andrews
Writers write. Dreamers talk about it. — Jerry B. Jenkins
I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the… — Oscar Wilde
I am stealing the golden vessels of the Egyptians to build a tabernacle to my God from them, far far away from the boundaries of… — Johannes Kepler
If you could stop every atom in its position and direction, and if your mind could comprehend all the actions thus suspended, then if you… — Tom Stoppard
Unfortunately, in many cases, people who write science fiction violate the laws of nature, not because they want to make a point, but because they… — Isaac Asimov
Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our judgement and, what… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science. — Thomas B. Macaulay
Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography. — Evelyn Waugh
I discovered in writing the biography of Bill Clinton that it is actually easier to write a biography of someone who is dead. Although you… — David Maraniss
It ain't whatcha write, it's the way atcha write it. — Jack Kerouac
One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I'm going to do my five or 10 pages… — Lawrence Block
I almost always urge people to write in the first person. ... Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it. — William Zinsser

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