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A writer who writes more than he reads is an amateur.
— Harlan Ellison
Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life.
— James Norman Hall
My teacher has a reading problem. He can't read my writing
— Leopold Fechtner
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
— Marcus Valerius Martialis
I am telling you what I know - words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.
— E.L. Doctorow
The last thing you want to do is write songs about being in a band.
— Matt Berninger
I think you have to read a lot. I think if you're going to write about something you better have read at least 100 books on that topic.
— Larry Winget
To begin impatiently is the worst mistake a writer can make
— Antony Beevor
Work on one thing at a time until finished.
— Henry Miller
As Jane Austen might have put it: It is a truth universally acknowledged that young protagonists in search of adventure must ditch their parents.
— Philip Pullman
I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
— Karen Thompson Walker
Your character that you create in your writing not only represents who you are, but also represents a number of people who you've met along the way.
— Grant Morrison
The act of creation fascinates me. You can only sit with blank page and wait. You cannot press a button, cannot program it.
— Joan Rivers
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
— E.L. Doctorow
A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.
— Francis Bacon
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
— Derek Walcott
Poets should never stop writing, because their words could be a powerful inspiration to someone else, whether it be now or 100 years from today.
— Delano Johnson
By writing out your desires and goals on a piece of paper, you send a red flag to your subconscious mind that these thoughts are far more important
— Robin S. Sharma
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
— Salman Rushdie
I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.
— Trey Anastasio
Genetic code is a divine writing.
— Toba Beta
Writing is an art. A document is your canvas, words are your paint, and a keyboard is your paintbrush.
— Lizzy Grimm
Who knows why we do it? And when we've done it, nobody wants it. Still we keep doing it. That's what makes a writer a writer.
— Chloe Thurlow
It is very important to be reading as well as writing. A doctor is not going to ignore new surgery practices.
— Brandon Sanderson
Reading while I'm writing ideally inspires my competitive side. When I read great writers, I want to be a better writer.
— Amity Gaige
My writings are my letters to the universe, who loved me like a mother.
— Debasish Mridha
A doctorate study is the passion for extensive research, reading, thinking and writing.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Writing is a compulsion
— Airam
My early life has given me a great deal to draw on, certainly - but would I have swapped a happy childhood for the writing? Yes.
— Bruce Robinson
For writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy, freedom.
— Joyce Carol Oates
When Chaplin found a voice to say what was on his mind, he was like a child of eight writing lyrics for Beethoven's Ninth.
— Billy Wilder
People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard.
— David Walliams
I love stand-up, but the process of writing is a little more lonely. I want to keep doing both, though.
— Jack Whitehall
Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.
— Annie Baker
Give me a paper and pen, so I can write about my life of sin. A couple of bottles of gin, in case I don't get in.
— Tupac Shakur
Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
— Sinclair Lewis
Writing is a struggle no matter what the genre.
— Susan Wiggs
To me, writing is like learning to ride a bike. At first you have your training wheels on but before you know it, you have graduated to a ten speed!!
— Lorine S. Thomas
It doesn't take five novels to become a great writer ... it takes one novel rewritten five different times.
— B. Chancellor Burgweger
The purpose of paragraphing is to give the reader a rest. The writer is saying ... : Have you got that? If so, I'll go to the next point.
— Henry Watson Fowler
The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it.
— Gabrielle Roy
There's magic in the unknown; a brooding fertility in the unknowable that can work on the reader's imagination long after a book is finished.
— Claire Wingfield
Writing is a prayer.
— Franz Kafka
It is not a crime to commit First Degree Writing
— Temple Emmet Williams
Being an author is to have a toe in the creative pool and a foot in the vat of commerce.
— Fennel Hudson
Well, yes: people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them.
— Hans Christian Andersen
Whenever something good happens, write it down. Buy a special notebook ... and use it to list all the good in your life.
— Peter McWilliams
The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
A few hints as to literary craftsmanship may be useful to budding historians. First and foremost, get writing!
— Samuel Eliot Morison
Every painting tells a story.
— A.D. Posey
When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
— Cesare Pavese
Poor, harmless paper, that might have gone to print a Shakespeare on, and was instead so clumsily defaced with nonsense.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
My style of lyric-writing is very specific and has a lot of details, and I think people react most to that.
— Craig Finn
It is almost possible to measure a writer's skill by the dexterity with which he repeats, and yet avoids monotony.
— George G. Williams
I love the process of creating a story that will resonate in my readers lives ~ either inspiring them, educating them, or entertaining them.
— Kathryn Albright
There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.
— Elvis Costello
To write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a flag to the top of a mast in a raging gale.
— Virginia Woolf
Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.
— Jules Renard
When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.
— Anton Chekhov
There are lots of ways of answering a letter - and writing doesn't happen to be mine.
— Edith Wharton
I've always wanted to do a Crichton book. I really love his writing.
— Richard Donner
Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.
— John Cheever
I think when you write an enigmatic character into a film, you have to have real confidence that the audience are going to go with it.
— Gemma Arterton
I've been doing my big theater projects, which take years, and writing a song here and there.
— David Friedman
I've evolved in my writing to tell a more emotional story - my publisher, Random House, has urged that.
— Alan Furst
Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years.
— T.K. Naliaka
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
— Richard Bach
Writing was something I always as a kid thought would be fabulous and glamorous to be a writer.
— Ann Leckie
You're not gonna start writing 'Hardy loves Miracle' all over your notebooks, are you? Sing her a song and post it on YouTube?
— M. Leighton
Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
— Neil Gaiman
Names that tell stories have been worth millions of dollars. So a great deal of research often proceeds the selection of a name
— Claude C. Hopkins
I consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me.
— James Lasdun
