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People think that I only write about homosexuality, but that's not true.

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Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

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Look, then, into thine heart, and write!

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Here is a golden Rule.... Write legibly. The average temper of the human race would be perceptibly sweetened, if everybody obeyedthis Rule!

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Taking the question in general, I should say, in the case of many poets, that the most important thing for them to do ... is to write as little as possible

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The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.

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Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.

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And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

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I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me.

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Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.

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Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?

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I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

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One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. He only is right who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded by worry, fret and anxiety. Finish every day, and be done with it. You have done what you could.

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Write me of hope and love, and hearts that endured.

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I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.

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For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn't produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?

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A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible.

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Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc.

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A pioneer in this genre [ writing about the refugee crisis] : the book A Seventh Man, by the great John Berger, decades ago evoked the lives of migrant workers in Europe.

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I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

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