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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

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

I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography. - Steven Wright

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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