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The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.
David Herbert Lawrence

Great, Humanity, Learn

I write for myself things that I've gone through.
Dolly Parton

I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.
Michelle Branch

Music, Cool, Before

Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.
David Bowie

Songs, Strangely

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
Alice Walker

Good, Art, Live

Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote.
William Hazlitt

Lazy, Learned, Talk

I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.
Oscar Hammerstein II

Hope, Beautiful, Important

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Writing, Thinking, Living

I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.
Tom Stoppard

Writing, Cannot, Social

I write out of my intellectual experience.
Tom Stoppard

I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.
Tom Stoppard

Long, Writing, Often

We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.
Doug Coupland

Rude, Decided, Software

I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
David Herbert Lawrence

Good, Sneeze, Spiteful

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Time, Long, Law

I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way.
David Bowie

Selfish, Mean, Same

Overall, we had about 50 meetings where the brothers would say that I couldn't do any solo records, I couldn't write for other people, I couldn't do this and I couldn't do that. These guys were trying to nail my feet to the ground.
Sammy Hagar

Trying, Guys, Feet

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.
Christopher Hitchens

Life, Read, Tried

I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.
Adele

Real, Another, Cliche

I knew I could only play Cyrano if he were Americanized. I had no intention of writing the script myself. I was afraid of it. You're playing with fire when you tamper with a classic. So I went looking for a writer. But it was such a personal idea, and anyone I would give it to would make it his own. It's hard to ask Neil Simon to write your idea.
Steve Martin

Writing, Hard, Fire

I'm lucky if I write a letter.
Jennifer Aniston

I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.
Dolly Parton

Family, Through, Friends

I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.
John Irving

Age, Old, Until

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
Cyril Connolly

Yourself, Self, Public

I love to write jokes and that's all I think about.
Rita Rudner

I get so happy when I write a joke. It's a very satisfying, liberating feeling.
Rita Rudner

Happy, Feeling, Joke

But, I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that's written, he becomes mechanical; he has no freedom.
Buddy Rich

Freedom, Create, Written

We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what?
Leonard Cohen

Work, Hard, Place

There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.
Charles Caleb Colton

Men, Find, Honest

A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.
Gustave Flaubert

Order, Needed, Superhuman

That's correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write.
Robert Kiyosaki

School, High, Twice

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