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Vigorous writing is concise. - William Strunk, Jr.

Easy reading is damn hard writing. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

God is love, but get it in writing. - Gypsy Rose Lee

Writing is a struggle against silence. - Carlos Fuentes

Television has raised writing to a new low. - Samuel Goldwyn

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

We can get all the Indians we need at the reservoir. - Samuel Goldwyn

I'm Irish and Cherokee Indian. I can't faint. - Lynn Collins

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

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

Writing is throwing spaghetti at a wall to see what sticks. - Kelly E. Lindner

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

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book. - Shereen El Feki

Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit. - Aristippus

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

Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure. - Yancy Butler

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

Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. - Sir Francis Bacon

Are you Indian or Pakistani? I can never tell the difference between you chaps. - Prince Philip

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

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

Writing is mentally stimulating; it's like a puzzle that makes you think all the time. - Stephanie Zimbalist

When my friends and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker. - Robin Williams

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

The writing of more than 75 poems in any fiscal year should be punishable by a fine of $500. - Ed Sanders

Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do. - Shania Twain

Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked. - Zebulon Pike

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

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. - John Updike

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

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

Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing. - Ben Hecht

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

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 you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth reading or do things worth the writing. - Benjamin Franklin

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