Indian Writing

Vigorous writing is concise. - William Strunk, Jr.

You can make anything by writing. - C S Lewis

Easy reading is damn hard writing. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

I am a drinker with writing problems. - Brendan Behan

Goose: A bird that supplies quills for writing - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult. - Leo Tolstoy

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. - Elvis Costello

Fiction writing is great, you can make up almost anything. - Ivana Trump

You can't have all chiefs; you gotta have Indians too. - American Proverb

How do they get the deer to cross at that yellow road sign? - George Carlin

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done. - Steven Wright

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. - Robert Frost

There is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. - Booker T Washington

Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it. - Tabitha King

Vegetarian: an old Indian word for "doesn't hunt well." - Paul Harvey

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing about. - Benjamin Franklin

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering. - Robert Frost

I write by ear. I tried writing with the typewriter, but I found it too unwieldy. - Groucho Marx

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up. - Ernest Hemingway

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on. - Louis L'Amour

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. - Jules Renard

The greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make. - Truman Capote

Writing is like sewing together what I call these 'buttons,' these bits and pieces. - Sandra Cisneros

Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. - Ivern Ball

Indian people, we are proud of our cheapness. You are never gonna insult us by calling us cheap. - Russell Peters

Early on, if I was alone two or three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide. - Jack Nicholson

Of all the useless things a person can do, limerick writing is right up there with golf and fishing. - Garrison Keillor

As a child, I was subjected to a lot of spaghetti Westerns and hated them. I wanted the Indians to win. - Kara Walker

Indians are so dedicated to being so cheap for so long, that Indian people actually created the number zero. - Russell Peters

Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank piece of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. - Gene Fowler

They're picking bananas in Brazil and them Indians down there, they don't care about what you look like. - Archie Bunker

I can't understand why you don't get any mail from me. Perhaps it's because I haven't been writing. - Groucho Marx

I met a man at a party. He said, "I'm writing a novel." I said, "Oh, really? Neither am I." - Peter Cook

I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance I was blessed with. - Sonia Sotomayor

Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking and writing. - Isaac B Singer

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. - Ray Bradbury

Writing a new play shouldn't be seen as a mystery belonging to a priesthood, but as a technical challenge, just to get into it. - Ton Stoppard

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second. - Robert Frost

If Aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans. - Stephen Hawking

Think while walking, walk while thinking, and let writing be but the light pause, as the body on a walk rests in contemplation of wide open spaces. - Frederic Gros