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But I never want to get to the point where I write a safe song or one that represents my sense of a subject in order to appear civilized. — Suzanne Vega

A writer who writes more than he reads is an amateur. — Harlan Ellison

Expectation is the dirtiest word in a traveler's vocabulary. — John Early

Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing. — Louise Mensch

Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life. — James Norman Hall

Never believe anything you think about yourself as a writer when you're not writing. — David Milch

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

I knew I would be famous one day. That's because I lived in a very small town and nobody liked doing the same things I did, like writing. — Alice Munro

In retrospect Hank I don't know why I spent four years writing this book when I could have just made a hit sing-a-ma-jig album. — John Green

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

Writing is a deeper sleep than death.
Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave,
I can't be dragged from my desk at night. — Franz Kafka

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

I spent a lot of time star-gazing, writing, and learning languages when the other kids were doing cooler things in Detroit. — Lizzo

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average. — Derek Walcott

I don't know who a character is till I look into their eyes. — Luke Taylor

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

I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw. — Len Wein

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one. — Salman Rushdie

I started writing music when I was around twelve. My current record company saw a video of me performing at my school's talent show. — Lorde

A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim. — Plato

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 a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon. — Ann Patchett

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

I have the heart of an artist and the soul of a writer. — A.D. Posey

Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel. — Donna Tartt

I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message. — Stephen King

People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard. — David Walliams

The only thing better than a well-read book is a well-read book only read by yourself. — S.A. Tawks

A literary agent is nothing but a cheap salesman (or woman); while a writer is a cheap salesman (or woman) who also has to actually write the books. — John Hodgman

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

I write songs to handle emotional pain. I guess what they say is true: with every heartache comes a great song. I also pray and have great friends. — Matt Sorum

My first writing job was with a company called TheatreworksUSA. — Robert Lopez

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

There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar. — Amy Bloom

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

This is a little secret that all writers share: We have two lives; the one we live on Earth and the one we live in our books. — Chrys Fey

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

I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person. — Virginia Woolf

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

Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything. — Vikram Seth

I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music. — Maya Angelou

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

You can't think yourself out of a writing block; you have to write yourself out of a thinking block. — John Rogers

I get very invested in characters, it's the only way I find that I can write a book and really make it work. — Gail Simone