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many writers does it take to screw in a light bulb? “A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." Thomas Mann "A writer who doesn't have a wound that's always open is no writer. He may prefer to hide it if he doesn't want pity; but he must have one." Elias Canetti "All writers are punks and I am one of the punkest." Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye "And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word." Dorothy Parker "Being an observant writer makes you ... kind of disgusted with people." Adrian Tomine "Even the best writer has to erase." Spanish proverb "Fiction writers can't be trusted. They make things up. Dan Poynter "I am a professional writer doing a professional job." Lynn Pribus "I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork." Peter De Vries "If you wait for inspiration, you’re not a writer but a waiter." Unknown "It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by then I was too famous." Robert Benchley "No man, but a blockhead, ever wrote, except for money." Samuel Johnson "Pray do not, therefore, be inducted to suppose that I ever write merely to amuse, or without an object." Charles Dickens "The benefit of constant rejection is lots of time to get it right." M. K. Fottrell "The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps." Robert Benchley "The writer who breeds more words than he needs is making a chore for the reader who reads." Dr. Seuss "... these people lie for living: They write novels." G. M. Malliet, Death and the Lit Chick "Through joy and through sorrow, I wrote. Through hunger and through thirst, I wrote. Through good report and ill report, I wrote. Through sunshine and moonshine, I wrote. What I wrote it is unnecessary to say." Edgar Allen Poe "To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all." Lord Byron"You are a writer starving in a garret. It is not just." The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne "You are the audience. I am the writer. I outrank you." The Producers - Special Edition "You don't have to become the bravest person who ever lived - just the bravest writer." Once and Again "A well-written Life is almost as rare as a well spent one." Thomas Carlyle "Before writing, think a lot. After writing, erase a lot." Carlos Herrar Alvarez "Being lost with a witch in a tunnel of love" Dr Seuss "Don't use semicolons." Kurt Vonnegut "Good writing is essentially clear thinking made visible." Ambrose Bierce "Good writing is hard work." Charles Schulz, Peanuts "Good writing should never be predictable." Dilbert "Happy is the heart of him who writes; he is young each day." Ptahhotep "I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that . . . just loafed, I suppose." P. G. Wodehouse "I try to leave out the parts that people skip." Elmore Leonard "If I had more time, I'd write a shorter letter." Blaise Pascal "If you don't annoy people, there is little reason to write." Kingsley Amis "It took me 15 years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous." Robert Benchley “Rewriting is the whole secret to writing.” Mario Puzo "The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of one's pants to a chair." Oscar Wilde"The Writing of books is looked upon as an Imployment (sic) not fit for our sex." Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough "There is nothing to writing. You just sit down at a [keyboard] and open a vein." Red Smith "Welcome to the humiliating world of professional writing." Homer Simpson, The Simpsons - The Complete First Season "What is written without effort is generally read without pleasure." Samuel Johnson "When you speak, your words echo only across the room or down the hall. But when you write, your words echo down the ages" Bud Gardner "Writing for a broad audience is difficult. You have to be smart, lucid and brief." Fareed Zakaria "Writing is both mask and unveiling." E. B. White "Writing is easy. All you have to do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead." Gene Fowler “Writing is like making love. You have to practice to be good at it.” Morris West Writing is like prostitution: first you do it for fun, then for a few close friends, and finally for money." Molière "Writing is the toughest thing I've ever done." Richard M. Nixon "Writing is turning one's worst moments into money." J. P. Donleavy Writing: "Like giving birth to a grand piano." Stephen Vincent Benét Wrong "The cover-up is always worse than the crime." George Stepanopoulos Wuhan, China "If you're worried about global warming and inclined to despair, you don't want to visit Wuhan." Matthew Polly, American Shaolin
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