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The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings. ↗

— Millicent Fawcett

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It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes. ↗

— Leslie Charteris

#cause #economical #everything #lazy #myself

Writing is hard work; it's also the best job I've ever had. ↗

— Raymond E. Feist

#best #ever #had #hard #hard work

They asked me to write it and zoomed me over there to do it. But they ended up sacking me. ↗

— Eddie Campbell

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Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes. ↗

— Karl Kraus

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The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing. ↗

— Vince Gill

#banjo #baseball #beauty #chords #club

After that, I specifically started writing lyrics. I would like sweat and think and get it all together. ↗

— Jim Capaldi

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I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term. ↗

— Robert Caro

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I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works. ↗

— Robert Caro

#being #biographies #book #books #doing

Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas. ↗

— Michael Caine

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