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So I be written in the Book of Love. I do not care about that Book Above. Erase my name, or write it as you… — Omar Khayyam
Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen. — David Frum
I think for a young journalist, it's better to write for the Web at the moment than it is for print — Tina Brown
I just simply write as it moves me. I may be writing about a book or a movie or a person, places where I've been… — Tina Brown
Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty. — Dennis Potter
There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work. — Dennis Potter
I think writer's block is simply the dread that you are going to write something horrible. But as a writer, I believe that if you… — Roy Blount, Jr.
I think what's really hard is making sense and making what you write clear and smooth-flowing. — Roy Blount, Jr.
Write only of what is important and eternal. — Anton Chekhov
When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his mind after he… — Anton Chekhov
A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious. — Anton Chekhov
Everything I have written up to now is trifling compared to that which I would like to write and would write with great pleasureEither I… — Anton Chekhov
I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work — Gay Talese
I never thought I'd be a writer. I never thought I'd be able to read a book, let alone write one. So if books like… — Don Novello
But typically for a project like the Mac, the size we had was pretty good. And it has different stages. The team grows as you… — Andy Hertzfeld
Jealousy is such a direct attack on whatever measure of confidence youâ€™ve been able to muster. But if you continue to write, you are probably… — Anne Lamott
I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write. — Garth Brooks
The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one... — Lawrence Block
Iâ€™ve tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I donâ€™t want to go on. — Lawrence Block
I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families--second families, perhaps I should say.… — Abraham Lincoln

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