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- "The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation."
By: Elias Canetti Write Quotes
- "Writing is a struggle against silence."
By: Carlos Fuentes Write Quotes
- "An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts."
By: Juvenal, Satires Write Quotes
- "I''d rather be caught holding up a bank than stealing so much as a two-word phrase from another writer."
By: Jack Smith Write Quotes
- "If I don''t write to empty my mind, I go mad."
By: Lord ron Write Quotes
- "Writing comes more easily if you have something to say."
By: Sholem Asch Write Quotes
- "When you are describing,
A shape, or sound, or tint;
Don''t state the matter plainly,
But put it in a hint;
And learn to look at all things,
With a sort of mental squint."
By: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) Write Quotes
- "I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces."
By: Harold Ross Write Quotes
- "When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing."
By: Enrique Jardiel Poncela Write Quotes
- "A synonym is a word you use when you can''t spell the other one."
By: Baltasar Gracián Write Quotes
- "Every writer I know has trouble writing."
By: Joseph Heller Write Quotes
- "When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man."
By: Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670 Write Quotes
- "Let me walk through the fields of paper
touching with my wand
dry stems and stunted
butterflies...."
By: Denise Levertov, "A Walk through the Notebooks" Write Quotes
- "When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence."
By: Samuel Butler Write Quotes
- "It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page."
By: Joan Baez Write Quotes
- "Everywhere I go I''m asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don''t stifle enough of them. There''s many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
By: Flannery O'Connor Write Quotes

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- "You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest."
By: Rowan Atkinson Funny Quotes
- "What will you do when you leave football, Jack, will you stay in football."
By: Stuart Hall, (radio 5 live commentator) Funny Quotes
- "If at first you don't suceed, pull your foreskin over your head (pronounced heed)"
By: Old Scottish parable Funny Quotes
- "He's usually a good puller - but he couldn't get it up that time."
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- "Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country."
By: Ian Rush Funny Quotes
- "I spent 90% of my money on women and drink. The rest I wasted."
By: George Best Funny Quotes
- "Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing"
By: Bernard Malamud Write Quotes
- "I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories."
By: Eric Brown Write Quotes
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