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Essential acts to master for self realisation;
Master the act of learning.
Master the act of writing.
Master the act of reading. — Lailah Gifty Akita

writing is a sustained act of empathy. — Andre Dubois

Writing is fundamentally an act of insurrection. — Kim Jocelyn Dickson

The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does. — Natalie Goldberg

The only time I know that something is true is the moment I discover it in the act of writing. — Jean Malaquais

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Writing ... is an act of faith: I believe it's also an act of hope, the hope that things can get better than they are. — Margaret Atwood

I consider writing an act of good citizenship. — Kurt Vonnegut

You cannot afford to suggest to another person, by word of mouth or in writing, or through any act, that which you yourself do not believe. — Napoleon Hill

In the act of creation, as in all the arts, the soul should be felt in the face and the fingers and the tongue, even in the cavities. — Chris Campanioni

Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing worlds and people. — Ayana Mathis

There's an old rule of theater that goes, 'If there's a gun on the mantel in Act I, it must go off in Act III.' The reverse is also true. — Stephen King

I don't think any man writing can worry about what the act of writing costs him, even though at times he is very aware of it. — Robert Creeley

I'm a writer, and the subject is less important than the act of writing itself. — Jess Walter

To me, writing is a considered act. It's something which is a great labor of thought and consideration. — Paul Theroux

Be yourself and your readers will follow you anywhere. Try to commit an act of writing and they will jump overboard to get away. — William Zinsser

Personally there is first: imagination; second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing. — Anne Waldman

For some reason, the act of writing them down makes me remember. Each word I write brings me closer to finding the right one. — Ally Condie

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

The act of composition is a series of discoveries. — E.L. Doctorow

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth. — Khaled Hosseini

The act of writing is the act of making soul, alchemy. — Gloria E. Anzaldua

Writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind. — Alice Childress

The art and act of writing - speaking just for myself - involves getting your proverbial ass in the proverbial chair. — Jerry Stahl

If you're hooked on the physical act of writing, there's a good chance of your hanging in there long enough to say what you were born to say. — Peter Meinke

Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last two or three years. — Bret Easton Ellis

For me writing is foremost a mode of thinking and when it works well, an act of discovery — Joseph Epstein

On every page, confidence fights with self-doubt. Every sentence is an act of faith. Why would anybody want to do it? — David Morrell

Perhaps the act of writing is necessary when nothing happens. — Kobo Abe

Writing is the act of finding out what I think. — Stephen King

Writing plays for me is often an act of looking at basement-level fears in terms of where they come from. — Stephen Karam

The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe. — David Hare

Acting is contained - you act for three months, then leave it - but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous. — Sophie Marceau

There is a ruthlessness to the creative act. It often involves a betrayal of the status quo. — Alan Watt

In my experience, cutting back is the crucial act that allows the vitality, precision and emotional heart of a piece of writing to emerge. — Pamela Erens

Inspiration comes from the act of writing. — Steve Doll

The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me. — Nathalie Sarraute

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar. — E.B. White

I'm excited about the idea of an act of theatre triggering a parallel creative act of writing. — Tim Crouch

The simple act of writing down a goal and making a written plan for its accomplishment moves you to the top 3 percent. — Brian Tracy

For me, writing plays is far more an act of the mind than of the emotions. It's a very different kind of impulse than fiction writing. — Jim Grimsley

A writer will do anything to avoid the act of writing. — William Zinsser

How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Observing people. A spark of idea for a story sometimes comes from the simple act of observation. — Ika Natassa

That thing you had to force yourself to do-the actual act of writing-turns out to be the best part. — Anne Lamott

If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage. — Cynthia Ozick

One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. — E.L. Doctorow

It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible — Italo Calvino

Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing. — Byron Katie

The act of writing itself is done in secret, like masturbation. — Stephen King

On the worst day of writing, the work is instructive. On the best day, the act is transcendent. — Chuck Wendig

I always talk to my students about the need to write for the joy of writing. I try to sort of disaggregate the acclaim from the act of writing. — Kim Edwards

(Writing is) the transformation, through an elaborate impersonation, of a personal emergency into a public act (in both senses of that word). — Philip Roth

Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone. — Larry Hagman

An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own — Marilyn Vos Savant

I tend to delay writing by doing more research - it's really the act of writing the piece that I have the hardest time with. — James Surowiecki

Writing is an act of cherishing ... It is an act of love. — Julia Cameron

I would say that writing, both the act of writing, and of course reading of other people's work is, for me, supreme joy. — James Lipton

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike. — Ralph Ellison

What mattered was writing it: the act of words. — Rose Tremain

At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them. — Laura Linney

I almost always urge people to write in the first person ... Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it. — William Zinsser

The act of writing anything can be as much consent as creation. — Charles Baxter

Writing is not just the technical act of your fingers on the keyboard. Writing is living. — Melissa Marr

The writing of a poem is, for me, in the first place, an almost total act of abandon leading to discovery leading to recognition. — Marvin Bell

To write for children at all is an act of faith. — Madeleine L'Engle

To read is to cover one's face. And to write is to show it. — Alejandro Zambra

During the act of writing I have told myself something that I didn't know I knew. — Gail Godwin

Literature, the act of writing, affirms life, however dark the story it tells. — Marty Rubin

Increase the number of adventures you act on and you'll lighten the weight of regret. — Gina Greenlee

Writing is an act of discovery in which you peel back the layers of the story as you write it down. — Matt Forbeck

With every day that passes I am more convinced that the act of writing is a concious act of humility. — Roberto Bolano

The act of self-expression - through writing a journal or letters - often enables a survivor to distance himself from his fears. — Nathaniel Philbrick

I know writers for whom the act of writing is a necessary chore. They suffer to write great work. I am very lucky that for me writing is a delight. — Denise Duhamel

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

For me, there is urgency in fiction, even though writing is, in itself, an act against the corrosiveness of time. — Romesh Gunesekera

Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does. — Anne Roiphe

Through the act of writing, a writer learns more about himself than he could ever imagine. — Rob Bignell, Editor

The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer. — Mo Yan

I don't care about my "impact" - I only care about the theater as an art form and criticism as an act of writing. — Neil Patrick Harris

Once writing becomes an act of listening instead of an act of speech, a great deal of the ego goes out of it. — Julia Cameron

Writing is the act of discovery. — Natalie Goldberg

Ultimately, writing is about trusting your own mind. It is an act of discovery. — Natalie Goldberg

All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say? — Steven Saylor

History is a succession of things that ought never to have happened, and the writing act is a kind of revenge against this. — Breyten Breytenbach

Poetry is sentimental to begin with. To write a sentimental poem is an act of redundancy. — Mary Ruefle

Writing is like a religion to those who don't practise, an act of faith for those who do. — Chloe Thurlow

The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn't matter. — Edward Albee

As long as one writes only for oneself, writing is a free act by means of which, to use an oxymoron, one secretly opens oneself. — Elena Ferrante

Writing is an act of generosity toward other people. — Fay Weldon

Those who perpetrate stories must act cruelly. — Johnny Rich

Inspiration does not always precede the act of writing; it often follows it. — Madeleine L'Engle

So nothing will ever be written down again. Perhaps the act of writing is necessary only when nothing happens. — Kobo Abe

Creativity is essential to any kind of joyful living. Sometimes I act, sometimes I draw, I paint, I write poems. I can't imagine living without it. — Zephyr Teachout

Writing is the act of saying "I," of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying "listen to me, see it my way, change your mind." — Joan Didion

Falling in love is an act of magic, so is writing. — Zoe Kazan

The most clear-sided view of the darkest
possible situation is itself an act of optimism — Jean-Paul Sartre