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Narcissus never wrote well nor was a friend. — Edward Dahlberg
A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Raphael painted, Luther preached, Corneille wrote, and Milton sang; and through it all, for four hundred years, the dark captives wound to the sea amid… — W. E. B. Du Bois
My recurring nightmare is that someday I will be faced with a panel: Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson all of whom will be… — Doris Kearns Goodwin
Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin made great comedies and they are still as funny today as… — Leonard Maltin
Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even… — Mary MacLane
My youngest son is a writer. He wrote for 'The District' and 'CSI: NY. — Craig T. Nelson
Rednecks' always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It's just that the language is… — Randy Newman
I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At the time, when… — Randy Newman
When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about… — Tea Obreht
I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every… — Harlan Coben
The truth then is, that the Russian Comintern is still confessedly engaged in endeavoring to foment war in order to facilitate revolution, and that one… — Denis Fahey
I started putting down my own pen and spending some time searching for the best songs out there possible. It doesn't matter if I wrote… — Jake Owen
I don't write from dreams because I don't remember mine, but I had a fragment of an image left about twins, whose father was telling… — Tamora Pierce
I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day, I… — Daniel Pinkwater
I was writing very early, like I was involved in our high school literary magazine, which was called 'Pariah.' The football team was the Bears,… — Tom Perrotta
I didn't have my own journals, but my mother kept a journal while I was in the hospital, and my father wrote newsletters to keep… — Brent Runyon
I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won first prize. The first story… — Ian Rankin
I wrote for years before I was ever published, and I don't think I could ever stop. That said, I was also a veterinarian before… — James Rollins
Remember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, and not a dead pavane for a princess! — Maurice Ravel

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