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- 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
- Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which has grown stale, which men of old have spoken.
- Egyptian Inscription Recorded at the Time of the Invention of Writing
- Television has raised writing to a new low.
- Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
- 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
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