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I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just… — Jackie Collins
To be honest, Iâ€™m more concerned with living my life than writing about my life. I feel like thatâ€™s really the main thing I know… — Jeff Tweedy
I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something. — Ken Kesey
I was asked by a group to write a song on the theme of brotherhood. This was before women's liberation, when brotherhood meant men and… — Tom Glazer
When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause. — Wietse Venema
I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in curious possibilities. I… — Aldous Huxley
Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty is… — Eric S. Raymond
Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel. — Marilyn Hacker
I write in praise of the solitary act: of not feeling a trespassing tongue forced into one's mouth, one's breath smothered, nipples crushed against the… — Fleur Adcock
This will be a great day in our history; the date of a New Revolution - quite as much needed as the old one. Even… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down. — Sam Neill
It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself. — Tanith Lee
It's actually harder to write a fun song. — Taryn Manning
For first you write a sentence, And then you chop it small; Then mix the bits and sort them out Just as they chance to… — Lewis Carroll
If you've got craft, you got game. If you got game, you can write your way in and out of anything. Writing is the best… — Robert Mark Kamen
The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing… — Roy Blount, Jr.
When I write a paper, I change my notation much more than I change my concepts. — Leslie Lamport
Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and...you send them out into the world and hope… — Edna Buchanan
I don't write about certain arguments I have with my wife. I'd get my head torn off if wrote about certain things. — Harvey Pekar
I try and write the way things happen. I don't try and fulfill people's wishes — Harvey Pekar

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