#writes

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds. ↗

— Alfred Kazin

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Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

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Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

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Keats writes better about poems than anybody I've ever read. The things that he says about what he wants his own poems to be are the ideals that I share. ↗

— Andrew Motion

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Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or say something inappropriate. ↗

— Dennis Prager

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A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart. ↗

— George A. Romero

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The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it. ↗

— Omar Khayyam

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Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

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