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I write out of my intellectual experience. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

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I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

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It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do. ↗

— Sting

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That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere. ↗

— Sting

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I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat. ↗

— J. Michael Straczynski

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I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck. ↗

— J. Michael Straczynski

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In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

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The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

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But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

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Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

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