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- Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
- Gene Fowler
- Scriptures, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles. Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
- John Berger
- God is love, but get it in writing.
- Gypsy Rose Lee (1914 - 1970)
- If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces.
- Paul Fussell
- If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn't hesitate to do so.
- Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
- If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
- Kinsgley Amis
- ...Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded...
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), _Phaedrus_
- If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
- Kingsley Amis (1922 - 1995)
- No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
- Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915)
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