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I agree that there are some bad apples on Wall Street. I spent about ten years exposing corporate and financial fraud for 'Barron's' magazine and… — Ben Stein
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. — Gertrude Stein
One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come. — Gertrude Stein
Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play. — John Steinbeck
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as… — Robert Louis Stevenson
I can't do that wonderful thing that Tom Waits and Bob Dylan do - to do imagery. I'm not good at that. I just write… — Rod Stewart
If you do enough planning before you start to write, there's no way you can have writer's block. I do a complete chapter by chapter… — R L Stine
Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book. — R L Stine
That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere. — Sting
I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set. — Sting
It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do. — Sting
I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking. — Tom Stoppard
I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really. — Tom Stoppard
I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will… — Tom Stoppard
I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut… — Tom Stoppard
I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who… — Tom Stoppard
For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write… — Tom Stoppard
A story is a story is a story. The only difference is in the techniques you bring to bear. There are always limitations on what… — J. Michael Straczynski
Here's the miracle: I grew up thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to write 'Superman' someday? Wouldn't it be great to create my own show, or… — J. Michael Straczynski
I don't need to write comics for a living. I have movies and TV for that. I write comics for one reason and one reason… — J. Michael Straczynski
Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want a reaction. Yeah,… — J. Michael Straczynski
My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug to… — George Strait
Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me. — Meryl Streep
In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing… — Barbra Streisand
You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one. — Theodore Sturgeon

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