“ Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
“ The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, "The medicines of the soul.". ”
- Paxton Hood- Copy
“ So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
“ I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
“ I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it. ”
- Mae West- Copy
“ The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead. ”
- e. e. cummings- Copy
“ I know not, sir whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life. ”
- J.M. Barrie- Copy
“ I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on. ”
- Beryl Pfizer- Copy
“ They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
“ A compilation of what outstanding people said or wrote at the age of 20 would make a collection of asinine pronouncements. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
“ Ah, yes, I wrote the ''Purple Cow'' — I'm sorry, now, I wrote it! But I can tell you, anyhow, I'll kill you if you quote it. ”
- Frank Gelett Burgess- Copy
“ All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me. ”
- Dorothy Parker- Copy
“ I did not attend his funeral, but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved of it. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
“ I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them. ”
- Carlos Fuentes- Copy
“ I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
“ I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
“ I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future. ”
- Edward Bond- Copy
“ I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me. ”
- Lisa Alther- Copy
“ If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. ”
- Harry Weinberger- Copy
“ If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President. ”
- Vaclav Havel- Copy
“ I've outdone anyone you can name — Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500. ”
- James Brown- Copy
“ On leaf of palm, on sedge-wrought roll; on plastic clay and leather scroll, man wrote his thoughts; the ages passed, and lo! the Press was found at last! ”
- John Greenleaf Whittier- Copy
“ The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
“ The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it. ”
- William Golding- Copy
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