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Writing is a struggle against silence. - Carlos Fuentes

I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography. - Steven Wright

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

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

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

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

People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you. - Marsha Norman

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

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

I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it. - Anthony Storr

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. - Ernest Hemingway

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

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

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. - W Somerset Maugham

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

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

That's what Columbus said to the Indians just before he gypped 'em out of Manhattan. - Archie Bunker

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

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

Diatribe: 1. An extinct race; 2. The group of native Brits that worship the late Princess Diana. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

What do people do with all the extra time they save by writing 'k' instead of 'ok'? - Unknown

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

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

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. - Ernest Hemingway

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

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

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

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

I love writing for women. The willingness to go from laughter to tears in a moment is the greatest palette you can paint with as a writer. - Michael P King