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• I was in a bad mood when I wrote that.

  Thomas Frank

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• Why do writers write? Because it isn’t there.

  Thomas Berger

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• I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I’d be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day.

  Thom Yorke

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• I was born to travel and write verse.

  Theophile Gautier

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• Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always.

  Teresa Nielsen Hayden

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• Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion.

  Teresa Nielsen Hayden

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• Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it.

  Tennessee Ernie Ford

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• I write in all keys. I’ve always written in all keys. I’ve probably written a lot of songs in A.

  Teena Marie

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• The thing with being on a series that runs that long is that the writers run out of things to do.

  Ted Shackelford

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• I’m not going to get into the writer’s skills or what he was trying to portray because that’s not fair. I can only say what I felt was trying to be portrayed there.

  Taylor Dane

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• Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

  Edna Ferber

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• Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

  Edna O'Brien

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• I’m not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I’ve never understood.

  Wole Soyinka

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• Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed.

  Wolcott Gibbs

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• You never write down to the people – you write the best you can with the hope that someone else will feel the same way.

  William Kraft

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• How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

  William Gaddis

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• It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died.

  William Faulkner

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  As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing.

   

  Elfriede Jelinek

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• The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

  Elias Canetti

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• Especially in the last 10 years, the writing on animated shows has jumped by leaps and bounds.

  Will Friedle

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