"The book is not completely written until someone else has read it."
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"History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect."
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"He suddenly announced that he could not write any more since "All that I have written seems like straw to me.""
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"Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet."
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""Southland" was not written for a black woman."
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"So much of what you see now in Hollywood is written and directed by committee, and you can see it."
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"Never write a poem about anything that ought to have a poem written about it."
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"This was the Darker Life, where every truth was written backward."
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"Yeah, well, we're all writers, aren't we? He's a writer that hasn't been published, and I'm a writer who hasn't written anything."
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"Very rarely do I talk off the top of my head on stage. I'm not an improv guy. I'm a writer-guy who presents what he's written."
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"I have talked quite long enough about my own follies. The thing is to finish the thing as devised and then let it be judged. But forgive me! It is written in my life-blood, such as that is, thick or thin; and I can no other."
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"All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning."
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"Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written."
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"Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me."
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"Written by a woman automatically is better."
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"She is written in a foreign tongue."
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"Books are slow. They require time; they are written slowly, published slowly, and read slowly."
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"So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it."
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"Good prose is written only face to face with poetry."
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"Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written — as long as I keep my senses, at least."
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