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You can make anything by writing. - C S Lewis

Writing is a struggle against silence. - Carlos Fuentes

That's not writing, that's typing. - Truman Capote

I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography. - Steven Wright

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

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

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

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

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

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

When writing the story of your life, don't let anyone else hold the pen. - Unknown

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

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

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

We are all pencils in the hand of a writing God, who is sending love letters to the world. - Mother Teresa

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

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

Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall. - Alan Bennett

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him, better take a closer look at the American Indian. - Henry Ford