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Quotations by Subject: Writing (126 quotes)

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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Results from Classic Quotes:

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)
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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
Anatomy is destiny.: Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939), Collected Writings, 1924
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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)
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If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.: Stephen King (1947 - ), On Writing, p. 147
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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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