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Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
Oscar Wilde

Painful, Duty, Fiction

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
Martin Luther

God, Alone, Stars

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
George Bernard Shaw

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
George Bernard Shaw

Time, Before, Twice

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Book, Him, Down

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
Garrison Keillor

Funny, God, Bad

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
Horace

Great, Truth, Art

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Time, Him, Same

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

Moving, Nor, Line

Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
Gore Vidal

Life, Sex, Nothing

My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Wise, Idea, Youth

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
Andre Gide

Beautiful, Reason, Madness

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
James M. Barrie

Life, Another, Write

I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
Quentin Tarantino

Himself, Stuff, Filmmaker

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.
Satyajit Ray

Music, Age, Poetry

The joy I get from winning a major championship doesn't even compare to the feeling I get when a kid writes a letter saying: 'Thank you so much. You have changed my life.'
Tiger Woods

Life, Feeling, Winning

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.
Jean de la Bruyere

Good, Mind, Thinks

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

Writing, Cannot, Write

Every artist writes his own autobiography.
Havelock Ellis

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Makes, Talent, Genius

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

Work, Age, Time

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
V. S. Naipaul

Moment, Comedy, Deepest

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
Flannery O'Connor

Rich, Poor, Seems

I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning.
Katy Perry

Funny, Girl, Wanted

I lived the stuff that Jackie Collins writes about.
Janice Dickinson

Stuff, Lived, Collins

I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left.
Vivienne Westwood

End, Thought, Problem

A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.
Bryan Adams

Time, Writing, Done

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

Person, Write, Public

There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.
Jeanette Winterson

Felt, Separate, Creatively

The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
Flannery O'Connor

Live, Cannot, Able

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