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«I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.»
«I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.»
Author: Henri Matisse (Artist, Painter) | About: Emotion, Writing | Keywords: literally, produces, table
«I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift.»
«I don't like to write, but I love to have written»
«I felt like writing about a time when I was probably, and I think all of us are, the happiest in our lives-before the obligations start in.»
Author: Neil Simon (Playwright) | About: Writing | Keywords: happiest, obligations
«I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes...»
«I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.»
«I don't believe a committee can write a book. It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps, but I don't believe it can write a book.»
Author: Arnold Toynbee (Historian) | About: Writing | Keywords: committee
«I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior F.B.I.-men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep-»
«I began to write more songs when I had more time, especially when we began to stop touring. Having Indian things so much in my head it was bound to come out.»
Author: George Harrison | About: Songs, Time, Writing | Keywords: Indian, touring

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