I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.

Carl Sandburg

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The writer is someone who tears himself to pieces in order to liberate his neighbor.

Italo Calvino

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I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.

Carl Rogers

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What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!

Charles Darwin

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I'm not a big gadget guy. When I write, I'll do the whole thing by hand, and then I'll put it into the computer.

Vince Vaughn

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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

Isaac Asimov

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I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

Isaac Asimov

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Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

Carl Sandburg

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There's nothing romantic about my work... I don't believe in inspiration. I believe that you get to your desk, you stay there, you work, you think of nothing else. You write and you write, and in the end, you write something good.

Irving Stone

About Believe Desk Else

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An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.

Irwin Shaw

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A writer has to live with a sense of honor.

Irwin Shaw

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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

Irwin Shaw

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The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.

Irwin Shaw

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Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.

Irwin Shaw

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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.

Irwin Shaw

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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.

Irwin Shaw

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Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.

Irwin Shaw

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Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

Irwin Shaw

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I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans.

Irwin Shaw

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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.

Irwin Shaw

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Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.

Irwin Shaw

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Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.

Irwin Shaw

Big Curiously Full Life

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The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.

Irwin Shaw

Bringing Care Great Just

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Pain me say no be me write Brymo's Ozymandias. Be like I dey sleep when the angel dey look for who to give the song to.

Adekunle Gold

Pain Sleep Angel Give

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The writer works in a lonely way.

Irwin Shaw

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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.

Irwin Shaw

Being He Honor Human

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I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various.

Irwin Shaw

Any Formula Great More

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In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.

Irwin Shaw

Characters Cord Cut Own

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No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.

Irwin Shaw

Even Feel Get He

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I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.

Questlove

Best Block Deadline Getting

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Benjamin Lincoln

Never Regret Write

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In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read

Catherine the Great

Position Read Write Talk

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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Best Day Every EveryDay

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I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity.

Chaim Potok

About Certainly Close Creativity

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I thought at 46 years old, I've been removed from the fashion industry for 10 years. I couldn't possibly write a model's book. That's for a 20-year-old. But I could say what I want to say without chastising the industry.

Iman

Been Book Could Fashion

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If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

Virginia Woolf

About Compared Could Friendly

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I enjoy taking jobs that make fun of me - or me as Princess Leia, or me as the writer, or whatever, as some idea.

Carrie Fisher

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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

Virginia Woolf

Fiction Her Money Must

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I'm a comic book artist. So I think to myself, what do I like to draw? I like to draw hot chicks, fast cars and cool guys in trench coats. So that's what I write about.

Frank Miller

About Artist Book Car

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I've learned this, that haters wanna hate. You could sing a song perfectly, you could write the songs perfectly, and some people are absolutely going to hate you.

Carrie Underwood

Absolutely Could Going Hate

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We write to make sense of it all.

Wallace Stegner

We Write Sense All

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A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out.

Wallace Stegner

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The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.

Wallace Stegner

Meeting Writer Reader Intimate

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Every author really wants to have letters printed in the paper. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.

P. G. Wodehouse

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Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.

Mason Cooley

Mean More Say Than

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Because life is about the love you make, together, we make our favourite people.

Di'ja

Together Favourite People Love

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I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

Fred Allen

Understand Person Years Write

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If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.

Fernando Pessoa

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To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life.

Fernando Pessoa

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I know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and make it without asking anyone's permission.

Francis Ford Coppola

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I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.

Carl Sandburg

The writer is someone who tears himself to pieces in order to liberate his neighbor.

Italo Calvino

I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.

Carl Rogers

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!

Charles Darwin

I'm not a big gadget guy. When I write, I'll do the whole thing by hand, and then I'll put it into the computer.

Vince Vaughn

Isaac Asimov

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

Isaac Asimov

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

Carl Sandburg

There's nothing romantic about my work... I don't believe in inspiration. I believe that you get to your desk, you stay there, you work, you think of nothing else. You write and you write, and in the end, you write something good.

Irving Stone

An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.

Irwin Shaw

A writer has to live with a sense of honor.

Irwin Shaw

Irwin Shaw

The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.

Irwin Shaw

Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.

Irwin Shaw

You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.

Irwin Shaw

You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.

Irwin Shaw

Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.

Irwin Shaw

Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

Irwin Shaw

I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans.

Irwin Shaw

In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.

Irwin Shaw

Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.

Irwin Shaw

Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.

Irwin Shaw

The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.

Irwin Shaw

Pain me say no be me write Brymo's Ozymandias. Be like I dey sleep when the angel dey look for who to give the song to.

Adekunle Gold

The writer works in a lonely way.

Irwin Shaw

Irwin Shaw

I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various.

Irwin Shaw

In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.

Irwin Shaw

No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.

Irwin Shaw

I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.

Questlove

Benjamin Lincoln

In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read

Catherine the Great

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity.

Chaim Potok

I thought at 46 years old, I've been removed from the fashion industry for 10 years. I couldn't possibly write a model's book. That's for a 20-year-old. But I could say what I want to say without chastising the industry.

Iman

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

Virginia Woolf

I enjoy taking jobs that make fun of me - or me as Princess Leia, or me as the writer, or whatever, as some idea.

Carrie Fisher

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

Virginia Woolf

I'm a comic book artist. So I think to myself, what do I like to draw? I like to draw hot chicks, fast cars and cool guys in trench coats. So that's what I write about.

Frank Miller

I've learned this, that haters wanna hate. You could sing a song perfectly, you could write the songs perfectly, and some people are absolutely going to hate you.