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- I have never thought of writing as hard work, but I have worked hard to find a voice.
- Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
- You can't think yourself out of a writing block, you have to write yourself out of a thinking block.
- John Rogers, Kung Fu Monkey, 06-25-11
- Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.
- Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), Essay on Robert Frost, quoted in N. Y.. Times: Obit-Editorial, April 1982
- No instance exists of a person's writing two languages perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worries and only half the royalties.
- Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)
- At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary to me. I couldn't imagine anything that I would write in that typeface.
- David Sedaris, interview in Louisville Courier-Journal, June 5, 2005
- Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.
- Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974), Enemies of Promise (1938)
- True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier for our living in it.
- Pliny The Elder (23 AD - 79 AD)
- Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
- Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)
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