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Quite honestly, most people are quick to "write someone off." But our God is a God of the second chance. Learn from One who is… — Woodrow M. Kroll
People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.' — Edward Albee
Chance has something to say in everything, even how to write a good letter — Baltasar Gracian
The critics suppose that it is easy to write a play. They aren't aware that writing a good play is difficult and writing a bad… — Anton Chekhov
But when I got to SMU and decided to take a playwriting class, I said this isn't a bad idea. IfI write characters, they could… — Beth Henley
Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle… — Henrik Ibsen
Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but… — David Ives
Don't write stage directions. If it is not apparent what the character is trying to accomplish by saying the line, tell us how the character… — David Mamet
It's hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write… — Tennessee Williams
When I first started writing plays I couldn't write good dialogue because I didn't respect how black people talked. I thought that in order to… — August Wilson
Cultural criticism finds itself faced with the final stage of the dialectic of culture and barbarism. To write poetry after the holocaust is barbaric. And… — Theodor Adorno
Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory… — Charles Caleb Colton
A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one. — Robert M. Hutchins
Go, write it in a martial hand; be curst and brief; it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and fun of invention:… — William Shakespeare
He does not write at all whose poems no man reads — Marcus Aurelius
Rittner's Computer Law: Never argue with people who write with digital ink and pay by the kilowatt-hour. — Don Rittner
If you use the original World Wide Web program, you never see a URL or have to deal with HTML. That was a surprise to… — Tim Berners-Lee
Our mistake, you see, was to write interminable large operas, which had to fill an entire evening. And now along comes someone with a one… — Giuseppe Verdi
Whoever is able to write a book and does not, it is as if he has lost a child — Nachman of Breslov
I write-down to speak-up. — Molefi Kete Asante
Bach is the supreme genius of music... This man, who knows everything and feels everything, cannot write one note, however unimportant it may appear, which… — Pablo Casals
If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop music with a… — Jon Secada
If you haven't got an idea, write a story anyway. — William Campbell Gault
Often, you have to fail as a writer before you write that bestselling novel or ground-breaking memoir. If you're failing as a writer - which… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule… — Elsie de Wolfe

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