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Quotations by Subject: Writing (126 quotes)

Results from Classic Quotes:

Part of the ability to keep writing over the years comes down to living with the expectation of disappointment. It's the exact opposite of capitalism. In capitalism you want your business to succeed, and to the degree it does your energy increases, and you go out and buy an even bigger business. In writing it's almost the exact opposite. You just want to keep the store going. You're not going to do as well this year as last year probably, but nonetheless let's keep the store going. What ruins most writers of talent is that they don't get enough experience, so their novels tend to develop a certain paranoid perfection.: Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007)
Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), A Man without a Country
Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine -- how good how fine. It went down all pulpy, slushy, oozy, all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large, beautified Strawberry.: John Keats (1795 - 1821)
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She was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same-you couldn't just soak it up then squeeze it out again.: David Nicholls, One Day, 2010
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Fahrenheit 451 is one of those books that is about how amazing books are and how amazing the people who write books are. Writers love writing books like this, and for some reason, we let them get away with it.: Josh Lieb, I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President, 2009
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Results from Cole's Quotables:

No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.: John Peter Zenger
Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.: Delmore Schwartz
If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are rotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.: Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991), New York Times Magazine, Mar. 12, 1978

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

Television has raised writing to a new low.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)

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