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You can make anything by writing. - C S Lewis

I am a drinker with writing problems. - Brendan Behan

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior. - Christina Baldwin

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

The point of good writing is knowing when to stop. - L.M. Montgomery

Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread. - Ion Tiriac

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

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

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors. - Edward Dahlberg

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We took pictures of the native girls, but they weren't developed.
But we're going back next week. - Groucho Marx

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

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

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

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from. - Gene Fowler

Indians are the second largest population in the world, but we're invisible on TV - everything is either black or white. - Russell Peters

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

Doing well with blogging is not about writing one key post, it is about performing day after day and helping a few people at a time. - Aaron Wall

My writing philosophy is throwing spaghetti against the wall. That's how I take pictures, too. If I take 100, surely one will be good. - Amanda Peet

Stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a mental form of athleticism. - Julia Glass