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