"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."

Franklin, Benjamin on Writers and Writing
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"Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties."

Irving, John on Fiction
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"The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another."

Barrie, Sir James M. on Life and Living
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"We all write poems. It is simply that poets are the ones who write in words."

Fowles, John on Poetry and Poets
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"I always write a good first line, but I have trouble in writing the others."

Moliere on Writers and Writing
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"We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand."

Lewis, Cecil Day on Writers and Writing
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"It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is."

Lemmon, Jack on Writers and Writing
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"Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators."

Lincoln, Abraham on Ambiguity
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"Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading."

Zinsser, William on Writers and Writing
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"The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time."

Shaw, George Bernard on Writers and Writing
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