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It's hard
enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a
good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with
comedy. Which is what life is.
-- Jack Lemmon
1925-, American Actor
The cure for
writers cramp is writer's block.
-- Inigo de Leon
The only
phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is
the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration
of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and
their grading into castes or classes. It seems to have
favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their
enlightenment.
-- Claude Levi-Strauss
1908-, French Anthropologist
We do not
write in order to be understood; we write in order to
understand.
-- Cecil Day Lewis
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As I take up
my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and
see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost
like to try to say it all in a single word.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg
1742-1799, German Physicist,
Satirist
Nowadays three
witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg
1742-1799, German Physicist,
Satirist
I can write
better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write
faster than anybody who can write better.
-- A. J. Liebling
1904-1963, American
Journalist
I think it's
bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils
something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the
tension.
-- Norman Mailer
1923-, American Author
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