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We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman's own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write. — Susan B. Anthony

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing. — Lytton Strachey

For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

When a man talks from the heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry. — Ray Bradbury

Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Last night, I was a mad man searching for a whiff of your fragrance. The stars and the moon even laughed at me. — Avijeet Das

There is something about writing poetry that brings a man close to the cliff's edge. — Charles Bukowski

A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers. — Margaret Fuller

Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box. — Thomas Huxley

It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his ideas live. — Christopher Paolini

When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him. — E.B. White

I write a lot of songs about my impressions from a man's point of view. — Kool Keith

To me Art (poetry) is a continuous and continuing process and that when a man fails to write good poetry he fails to live fully or well. — Charles Bukowski

Every man is a book in which God himself writes. — Victor Hugo

I don't think any man writing can worry about what the act of writing costs him, even though at times he is very aware of it. — Robert Creeley

Good God! This man should be writing dime novels. — Josephus Daniels

A man is crazy who writes a secret in any other way than one which will conceal it from the vulgar. — Roger Bacon

One must never judge the writer by the man; but one may fairly judge the man by the writer. — Louis Kronenberger

Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting. — Wallis Simpson

Anyhow, I say, the God I been praying and writing to is a man. And act just like all the other mens I know. Trifling, forgitful, and lowdown. — Alice Walker

No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in. — Henry Miller

I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply? — Ernest Hemingway,

A man could scarcely make his writing a reason for living unless he believed in the validity of that writing. — Paul Bowles

In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded. — Thomas Carlyle

Writing, not dancing, is the chosen form of expression of the white man. — Gerald Jonas

It never seems to occur to people that a man might just want to write a piece of music. — Ralph Vaughan Williams

If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder. — Walter Damrosch

The man is in his work,read it if you want to know about him. — R.M. Engelhardt

It is much easier not to write like a man than to write like a woman. — Samuel Johnson

Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority. — John Lancaster Spalding

There is no lonelier man than a writer when he's writing, except the suicide. — Ernest Hemingway,

An' writin' even goes on sayin' a man's wurds after he's deid! Ye cannae tell me that's right! — Terry Pratchett

In the country places of Ireland, writing is held in certain awe: a writer was a dangerous man from whom they instinctively recoiled. — Patrick Kavanagh

If I were a young man, I would not hesitate at writing anything to get into print, except pornography. — James A. Michener

My dad's mission for me has always been to be a man they would write about, somebody that can be respected in the world. — Kenna

A man coined to superlative must expect that his every statement will be taken with some caution — Claude C. Hopkins

No man, even though he be Shakespeare, can write perfectly when his web is woven of threads that have been spun in many lands. — William Butler Yeats

A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male. — Simone De Beauvoir

When a man does not write his poetry, it escapes by other vents through him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

As a woman writing SF, I felt I had to think and write like a man in order to be taken seriously. — Heidi Ruby Miller

To me, cooking is man's natural activity. But I think writing is really hard. Certainly writing fiction is the hardest thing I've ever done. — Ruth Reichl

One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film. — Stanley Kubrick

The essence of drama is that man cannot walk away from the consequences of his own deeds. — Harold Hayes

The man who offers an insult writes it in sand, but for the man who receives it, it's chiseled in bronze. — Giovannino Guareschi

No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning. — Joseph Addison

Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man wants to make a million dollars, the the best way would be to start his own religion. — L. Ron Hubbard

You've seen yourself how difficult the writing is to decipher with your eyes, but our man deciphers it with his wounds. — Franz Kafka

We writers have this saying 'Kill your darlings' ... but I suppose you family men don't agree with it. — Mike Pohjola

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden. — David W. Wolfe

Everything a man writes about himself is instructive. — John Glassco

If you were writing poetry it was somewhat safer to be a woman than a man. — Alice Munro

Nature is amazing wonder. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose. — Winston Churchill

Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself. — George Bernard Shaw

Writing this book I am like a man playing the piano with lead balls attached to his knuckles. — Gustave Flaubert

He was in the frame of mind when a weaker man would have started writing poetry. — P.G. Wodehouse

Sometimes it's impossible to say certain things ... Writing is something needed by man to share experience. — Arnost Lustig

Perfectionism, of course, was something which even as a young man he had come to see as the innermost essence of talent. — Thomas Mann

Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul. — Oscar Wilde

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good — Ezra Pound

I'm just not in a writing mood, but I keep going. What if the garbage man were not in a garbage mood? or the doctor not in a healing mood? — Jean Nicole Rivers

How lucky is the man who, like Mozart and others, goes to the tavern of an evening and writes some fresh music. For he lives while he is creating. — Johannes Brahms

The writer, a free man adressing free men, has only one subject - freedom — Jean-Paul Sartre

In some ways I'm a reticent man, and for quite a number of years there wasn't very much of my real true deep feelings in my writing. — Norman MacCaig

Don't write about Man; write about a man. — E.B. White

He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge. — Charles Bukowski

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. — Francis Bacon

By writing books, a man turns into a universe. — Milan Kundera

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man. — Aristotle.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read. — Samuel Johnson

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. — Leo Tolstoy

If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission in writing. — Edward Burnett Tylor

I could spend the rest of my life writing and drawing books for kids and be a very happy man. — Daniel Sean Kaye

To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters. — Samuel Johnson

Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials. — James Boswell

In every letter, in every line, she saw him. He hadn't changed - he'd only grown into the man he'd meant to be. — Diana Peterfreund

A doctor is a man who writes prescriptions, till the patient either dies or is cured by nature. — John Taylor

I have wrought my simple plan
If I give one hour of joy
To the boy who's half a man,
Or the man who's half a boy. — Arthur Conan Doyle

It's certainly hard to find fault with a work that quotes Shakespeare, Homer, and a dirty limerick about "the young man from Oswego. — Simon Sheppard

A man is in no danger so long as he talks his love; but to write it is to impale himself on his own pothooks. — Douglas William Jerrold

The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters. — Lewis Carroll

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live. — Theodor Adorno

But a man may then imagine in your work what he pleases, what you never meant!
Not what he pleases, but what he can. — George MacDonald

A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour. — Mahatma Gandhi

A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds. — Marianne Moore

A man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it. — Thomas Paine

A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it. — Samuel Johnson

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write. — William Makepeace Thackeray

The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius. — H.L. Mencken

The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication. — Raymond Chandler

When we come across a natural style, we are surprised and delighted; for we expected an author, and we
find a man. — Blaise Pascal

A word writ doon can hang a man — Terry Pratchett

A critic is a legless man who teaches other people to run — Channing Pollock

Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

No man can write who is not first a humanitarian — William Faulkner

I'm a man with a mission in two or three editions And I'm giving you a longing look Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book. — Elvis Costello

[The writer] has to be the kind of man who turns the world upside down and says, lookit, it looks different, doesn't it? — Morris L. West

I feel that I am writing out of a full life. I am a rich man, rich in men known, in adventures had. I am rich with living. — Sherwood Anderson