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Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar. — Benjamin Franklin
I did not intend to write a funny book, at first. I did not know I was a humorist. I have never been sure about… — Jerome K. Jerome
Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free… — David Guterson
The poet will write for his peers alone. He will remember only that he saw truth and beauty from his position, and expect the time… — Henry David Thoreau
I don't find a lot of people actually saying things through music any longer. They are not trying to say anything with their music, they… — Robben Ford
You can't write the same book twice. Though I've been in historical musical situations, I can't go back and do that again. And though I… — Max Roach
Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to… — Roger Waters
If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write,… — A A Milne
I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle… — James Laughlin
For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks a certain unconscious… — John Hodgman
When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you're deathly afraid that you're not up to the task. That was certainly… — David Guterson
Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions. — Anne Stevenson
My grandfather was dying, and told the family he had decided to die. ... At that moment I wanted so badly to write and tell… — Isabel Allende
The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author. — Jerzy Kosinski
For me now, it's about what you would write and what you wouldn't write, and that's how I select what I am going to do.… — Neil Jordan
It's nice to be in a situation where the two books that I write for a sort of regular monthly income are also works that… — Garth Ennis
There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country. — Mark Haddon
I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way… — Don DeLillo
To write well about the elegant world you have to know it and experience it to the depths of your being... what matters is not… — Italo Calvino
Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays — Elwyn Brooks White
Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind there would have been no reason to write. — Joan Didion
Never write more than two pages on any subject. — David Ogilvy
Find the best writers, pay them to write, and avoid typos at all costs. — Ernest Hemingway
For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year. — William Styron
It's a feeling of happiness that knocks me clean out of adjectives. I think sometimes that the best reason for writing novels is to experience… — Zadie Smith

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