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To write or speak is to communicate. To communicate is to share meanings, make them ‘common’ to all participants in the discourse. (The etymological root… — Robin Lakoff
Isn't one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that… — Donald A. Norman
They want me to write differently. Certainly I could, but I must not. God has chosen me from thousands and given me, of all people,… — Anton Bruckner
I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week. — Chaim Potok
Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that there's a big… — Alex Haley
There are only two kinds of stories in the world: those about which I do not care to write as many as 600 words, and… — David Halberstam
I thought a dignified thing to do would be to live in the country by the time I'm 50 and write books — Julian Clary
Other people write about the bling and the booty. I write about the pus and the gnats. To me, that's beautiful. — Unknown Author
Literature is what you write when you think you should be saying something. Writing begins when you'd rather be doing anything else: and you've just… — Kenneth Patchen
What is a 'thing'? All is movement, a flowing. How stupid it is to speak of the 'mind'. There is a body; there is a… — Kenneth Patchen
By the end of the week, if I'm still alive, I get to write whatever I want about it all. — Michael Musto
If I could express the same thing with words as with music, I would, of course, use a verbal expression. Music is something autonomous and… — Jean Sibelius
Sometimes I write about things that never happened to me that wind up happening to me. When you put things out in the universe, sometimes… — Chad Kroeger
I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first. — Jack Prelutsky
The difference between the casual impression and the intensified image is about as great as that separating the average business letter from a poem. If… — Harry Callahan
The way I write, words can means lots of different things. — Beth Orton
Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven’t gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of… — Hal David
Artists who write songs... what they're going through usually comes through in their music. — Terri Clark
Eventually I would like to reach the stage where I don't have to write about love and kisses and all that stuff. I wish I… — Eric Burdon
It's harder to read code than to write it. — Joel Spolsky
The Bible is clear about two principles: (1) We always need to forgive, but (2) we don’t always achieve reconciliation. Forgiveness is something that we… — Henry Cloud
Sasuke is always in the corner of my mind. Naruto and Sasuke progress as a pair. So when I write about Naruto, I always have… — Masashi Kishimoto
Every morning when I awake I ask myself whether I should write or blow up a dam. I tell myself I should keep writing, though… — Derrick Jensen
I tried to write with someone else once before, but it was not successful. — Paula Danziger
I think my books talk about kids learning to like and respect themselves and each other. You can't write a message book; you just tell… — Paula Danziger

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