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Nowadays it seems to me nobody takes trouble about anything, especially writing songs.

A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.

Robert McNamara

Computer

Judgment

Writing

Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

Terry McMillan

Writers

Writing

Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.

I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you're writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things.

Actually, that's one of the things I was thinking about writing a story about me, loosely based or autobiographical. I just don't want to be like some people that are in their twenties and writing autobiographies.

I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other.

John McGahern

Reading

Writing

But, if there's any aspect of my career that needs attention, it's writing.

For no. 1, it's great writing, super writing. The second thing is that it's great chemistry with all the actors. We just all got along from the very start. Very get-go, we all got along. We just - it was just like we were all meant to be there together.

Reba McEntire

Actors

Writing

I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for love, because I love it. On the other hand, I think that those of us who make our living writing history can also be called true professionals.

I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never been trained in an academic way how to go about the research.

In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and need to know.

David McCullough

Time

Writing

I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber.

There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing.

David McCullough

Temptation

Writing

I am writing a sequel to The Touch because I want to further explore the Chinese question that I have raised. There will be more about that in a sequel.