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Writing Quotes by Dorothy Parker
- Writing well is the best revenge.
- It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and write it sentence by sentence - no first draft. I can't…
- All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.
- Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
- I fell into writing, I suppose, being one of those awful children who wrote verses. I went to a convent in New York-the Blessed Sacrament...…
- It's easier to write about those you hate — just as it's easier to criticize a bad play or a bad book.
- I hate writing, I love having written.
- If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's…
- I'll think about something else. I'll just sit quietly. If I could sit still. If I could sit still, maybe I could read. Oh, all…
- I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
- I'm not a writer with a drinking problem, I'm a drinker with a writing problem.
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- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
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- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
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- Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov