#writing

I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

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I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really. ↗

— 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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I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing. ↗

— Rex Stout

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Vigorous writing is concise. ↗

— William Strunk, Jr.

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I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

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The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

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There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

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Writing is a communication. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

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These matters having been arranged, I had a temporary awning erected near the river, and was for three or four days busily employed writing an account of our journey for the Governor's information. ↗

— Charles Sturt

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