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I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose.
Written by Steven Wright
I did not feel 'evil' when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract industry and tourists to a country which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years.
Written by David Ogilvy
The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
Written by A. Whitney Brown
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
Written by E. M. Forster
I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do was die in alphabetical order.
Written by Erma Bombeck
If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
Written by Tennessee Williams
I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful.
Written by Betty Smith
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.
Written by Alan Paton
The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm.
Written by Gay Talese
Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
Written by Warren Buffett
I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.
Written by James M. Barrie
Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
Written by Robert Kennedy
No one, ever, wrote anything as well even after one drink as he would have done with out it.
Written by Ring Lardner
When you say 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows,' people just stare at you blankly and say 'Hey, I got those with the system, for free.'
Written by Linus Torvalds
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
Written by Virginia Woolf
Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.
Written by Carl Sandburg
Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
Written by Virginia Woolf
Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.
Written by Arthur Conan Doyle
The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.
Written by William Golding
I lived to write, and wrote to live.
Written by Samuel Rogers
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
Written by Duke Ellington
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
Written by Ernest Hemingway
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
Written by Samuel Johnson
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.
Written by Harold Ross
If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so eloquently.
Written by Richard McCabe
I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being a writer. I wrote only after witnessing a trial.
Written by John Grisham
I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn't have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling... I'm the most sampled artist in history.
Written by Rick James
Paul's the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but that's just technically true. In spirit, and in essence of the truth, it doesn't matter. So I don't know, maybe I'm being foolish for not being technical. Yeah, I wrote a certain portion of the things.
Written by Art Garfunkel
Although a madman, Norton wrote letters to Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria which they took seriously.
Written by Kerry Thornley
The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.
Written by Buchi Emecheta

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