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"Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility." »Pablo Picasso
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"A true artist is born with a unique voice and cannot copy so he has only to copy to prove his originality." »Radiquet
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"There is nothing to write about, you say. Well then, write and let me know just this - that there is nothing to write about or tell me in the good old style if you are well. That's right. I am quite well." »Pliny the Younger
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"I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop." »Mark Twain
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"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
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"I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't." »Ernest Hemingway
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"First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand." »Robert Cecil Day Lewis
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"It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is." »Jack Lemmon
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"When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it." »Anatole France
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"When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it." »Anatole France
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"Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can." »Norman Vincent Peale
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"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it." »Moses Hadas
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"I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought What the hell good would that do" »Ronnie Shakes
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"I was going to buy a copy of "The Power of Positive Thinking", and then I thought: What the hell good would that do?" »Ronnie Shakes
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"I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do?" »Ronnie Shakes
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"write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble." »Arabic Parable
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"The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes." »Aubrey Menen
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"Real programmers don't write in PLI. PLI is for programmers who can't decide whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN." »Anonymous
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"The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish." »Robert Louis Stephenson
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"Refrain from doing ill for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds we are all to prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved." »Juvenal
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"Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved." »Juvenal
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"write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it." »Jesse Stuart
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"write something to suit yourself and many people will like it write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it." »Jesse Stuart
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"There are authors who write to communicate, there are authors who write to impress themselves." »Mark S. Hertzog
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"If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results." »Anthony Robbins
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"Life is pretty simple You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else." »Thomas Peters
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"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better." »A. J. Liebling
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"The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish." »Virgil Thompson
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"If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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