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I believe in the verb, not the noun - I am not a writer, but someone compelled to write. — Richard Flanagan
I had long wanted to write a love story, and I had long - wisely, I felt - shirked the challenge because I felt it… — Richard Flanagan
The two together are a really great combo: the family life and then being able to go play some shows and write. — Vonda Shepard
I love to write just about more than anything, but there are times I have to force myself to sit down and work. I want… — Chelsea Cain
Writing takes a lot of patience. It usually takes me a year to write a book. One time, it took me 14 years to write… — Unknown Author
It makes it harder to write if I watch a lot of television, because television is not like a written story. — Unknown Author
The ultimate test of a finished account executive is his ability to write a sound marketing plan. — Morris Hite
I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good… — Leo Burnett
If you have a good selling idea, your secretary can write your ad for you. — Morris Hite
What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque. — Brendan Behan
I write of the wish that comes true - for some reason, a terrifying concept. — James M. Cain
I look at you and I write down what I hear. — Virgil Thomson
I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well. — Horace
Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble. — Benjamin Franklin
The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with. — Marty Feldman
The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never… — Eldridge Cleaver
Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute. — Franklin Pierce Adams
I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman. — John Adams
When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think… — Michael LeBoeuf
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing. — Benjamin Franklin
The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance. Now they are trying to write another war plan. Clearly, the American war planners misjudged… — Peter Arnett
Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it. — Jean Paul
Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred. — Jules Renard
Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not… — Walter Benjamin
When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I… — Comte de Lautreamont

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