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Quotations by Subject: Writing (126 quotes)

Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.: Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974)
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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.: Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
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Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.: Charles Peters
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Television has raised writing to a new low.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
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Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.: David Sedaris, interview in Louisville Courier-Journal, June 5, 2005
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In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.: George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Politics and the English Language", 1946
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It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.: Isabel Colegate
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The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.: Russell Baker (1925 - )
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A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.: Thomas Mann (1875 - 1955)
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There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
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