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Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.

Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites.

Good stories are not written. They are rewritten.

Great books are written from a sense that there is nothing to lose.

Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.

History gets written by the winners.

History is, as we know, written by the winners.

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.

History is lived forwards but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture what it was to know the beginning only.

History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect.

History written in pencil is easily erased, but crayon is forever.

History is not written in the interests of morality.

History should be written as philosophy.

History is written by the victors--and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders.

History is written backwards but lived forwards.

History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.

I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five

Honest songs aren`t written for money.

I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

I am transcribing a book that I have, in a sense, not yet written, and in another sense, have always written, and in another sense, am currently writing, and in another sense, am always writing, and in another sense, will never write.

I become irritated when I am being written off as aloof or stand-offish when I'm shy and don't know what to say.

I cannot go on.... All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen and what has been revealed to me.

I can't believe that I've written my best work yet. If I believed that, then I wouldn't bother releasing music anymore.

I'd rather have written "Cheers" than anything I've written.

I'd done "Gosford Park," a film that Julian Fellowes had written that Robert Altman directed.

I don't believe it's all for nothing. It's not just written in the sand.

I don't think I was considered to be a cabaret singer because I didn't have patter that was written.

I certainly have written a lot about police in my life, and it's not only something that I know about, but always something that interests me.

I could have written a misery memoir and instead I tried to make it funny. I never complained.

I'd never have written the big books in London.

I do not like to write - I like to have written.

I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.

I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.

If all the music written since Bach's time should be lost, it could be reconstructed on the foundation which Bach laid.

If a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible.

If I hadn't had my children, I wouldn't have written more and better, I would have written less and worse.

If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.

If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.

I find that the most interestingly written parts happen to be the bad guys.

If I wanted to make money I would have written another novel.

If something needed to be written, if something needed to be polished, needed to be re-written, I was just handed pages.

If someone picks up one thing you've written, you want them to go, 'Wow, this is pretty good.'

I go through a lot of bad stuff, because most of the stuff that's written is pretty bad. But occasionally something comes along that's good, and I want to do it.

If you didn't want to be written about, you shouldn't have been born to a writer!

If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!

I have found that each of my books has developed out of something I have written in a previous book. Some thought evidently unfinished.