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A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

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A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar. ↗

— Arthur Koestler

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It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes. ↗

— Leslie Charteris

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Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes. ↗

— Karl Kraus

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I felt a little green, because Shakespeare writes the thought process within the text; it was tricky not to think of what to say and then say it, and instead just deliver the lines. ↗

— Neil Patrick Harris

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The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind. ↗

— Max Nordau

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Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible. ↗

— Anne Rice

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There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Need to Get By,' it just writes itself. ↗

— Valerie Simpson

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If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes. ↗

— Mickey Spillane

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