"Don't get it right, just get it written." — James Thurber
"Don't get it right, just get it written."
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James Thurber
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98 Quotes by James Thurber
James Thurber has 98 quotes on this site.
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When man gives up on reforming and inspiring society he also gives up his freedom.
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Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope…
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The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Love is what you've been through with somebody.
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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and…
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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More Writing Quotes
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Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
— Hannah Arendt
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Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop…
— Paul Auster
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I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until…
— Paul Auster
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I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less…
— Paul Auster
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When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and…
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
— Richard Bach
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In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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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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Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.
— Sholem Asch
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but…
— Isaac Asimov
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If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
— Isaac Asimov
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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
— Isaac Asimov
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