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Once a week I would meet up with the coolest teacher and we'd go over my work. All my friends were like, Soooo... once a… — Dave Franco
[Polythene Pam] was me, remembering a little event with a woman in Jersey, and a man who was England's answer to Allen Ginsberg, who gave… — John Lennon
Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence. It is no fun to write lumpishly, dully, in prose the reader must plod through… — Barbara Tuchman
The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of Woman's Rights with… — Queen Victoria
Our problem is this: we usually discover him within some denominational or Christian ghetto. We meet him in a province and, having caught some little… — Calvin Miller
Why don't you write books people can read?(to her husband James) — Nora Barnacle
I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way. — Allan Sloan
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,… — Brian Kernighan
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find… — Socrates
When I write I simply follow my heart. And my flights of fantasy. It is not done with a conscious effort. I'm continually inspired and… — Elizabeth Kim
Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces. — Allegra Goodman
Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk-away from any open flames-to remind yourself that if you don't write daily, you will get rusty. — George Singleton
Again, I hear almost everyday from atheists who write off religion as primitive, premodern nonsense. I summon Aquinas, Augustine, Paul [of Tarsus], Teresa of Avila,… — Robert Barron
Oh writer! An Angel watches over all you write. Make your writing meaningful for it will eventually return to you and you will be questioned… — Ali ibn Abi Talib
I used to be afraid of two things - being alone and not being able to write. Since Albert's death, I don't care about writing… — Hans-Uwe Bauer
Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing. They are the ones who discover what… — Bonnie Friedman
I really recommend that anyone who wants to write have a very physical hobby that takes you away from books and criticism, because it teaches… — Jo-Ann Mapson
I always write about my own experiences, whether I've had them or not. — Ron Carlson
What I am saying, I suppose, is that you write as if everyone is dead. Then you face the music. I don't know any other… — Lynn Freed
We are all inspired by the incredible stories of handicapped people who write novels with their toes, cancer victims who run marathons for cancer research,… — Danah Zohar

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