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Genius is the art of taking pains — Claude C. Hopkins

As I write, My fingers tap tap the keys the way Ravi Shankar's fingers pluck and strum the strings of his sitar. — Christina Westover

If you have to wait for it to roar out of
you,
then wait patiently.
if it never does roar out of you,
do something else. — Charles Bukowski

Content, it dreams awake, and spins the fabric of tales. There is really nothing to be done with such imagery except to use it: in writing, in art. — Patricia A. McKillip

Writing is an abstract art of drawing pictures of the conscious and subconscious mind with words. — Debasish Mridha

Ursula K. Le Guin urges authors to remember why they do what they do. Her argument is that writing is an form of art rather than a commodity. — Ursula K. Le Guin

If we don't value the people who inspire us (and money is one mark of that) then what kind of culture are we building? — Sara Sheridan

The dirty secret of art is you don't have to show people your bad writing. That's what we have the delete key for. — Robert McKee

One of the great things about art is you get to see what your concerns are, what those things tumbling around inside you are. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Very often human beings don't become available for the purposes of art until they have shaken off some of their dogged, self-preserving sanity. — Christopher Morley

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

The best kind of writing is that which comes from the authors soul. — Ndiritu Wahome

Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it. — David Hare

But sometimes everything I write
with the threadbare art of my eye
seems a snapshot — Robert Lowell

One of Scotland's most important cultural exports - stories. — Sara Sheridan

The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written. — Elizabeth Kenny

Acceptance and validation are the fuels of the future. — Kevin James Breaux

Rilke said that art can come only out of inner necessity. I write because I must. Or because I cannot not write. — Aleksandar Hemon

Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it. — Steven Pressfield

The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair. — Mary Heaton Vorse

Music, art, writing ... it's like some
magical psychic drainage. A way of
tapping into the bigger picture of all
it is to be human. — Lou Rhodes

Writing is a form of art. Do not use New Times Roman or Arial because it's boring and hackneyed. — Natalya Vorobyova

Writing, like any art, is a continuing process of discovering the infinite possibilities of Life. — Hubert Selby Jr.

Trying to live up to yourself is the most trying thing. — Ren Garcia

The fear of Mortality is the base of Immortality — Udayveer Singh

The craft of writing is the art of penetrating other minds with the figures that are in your own mind. — John Steinbeck

Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing. — Ben Hecht

Text talk? How can the art of writing, once performed by monastic scribes, have degenerated into little more than creative candyfloss? — Fennel Hudson

I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this. — Xavier Dolan

Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up. — Stephen King

The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

No art ever came out of not risking your neck. — Eudora Welty

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

The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness. — John Steinbeck

Art goes on in your head. If you said something interesting, that might be a title for a work of art and I'd write it down. — Damien Hirst

On pristine parchment I draw with my skis calligraphic lines of joy, writing poems of movement. — Patricia Robin Woodruff

It is quite beneath the dignity of a person holding a Bachelor of Arts degree to engage in such a vulgar occupation as the writing of novels. — Fukuzawa Yukichi

The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing. — Henry James Sumner Maine

Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art. — Isabel Allende

Books work as an art form (and an economic one) because they are primarily the work of an individual. — Seth Godin

Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's imagination. It stays alive forever. — Jodi Picoult

Art is the overflow of emotion into action. — Brian Raif

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot. — William Shatner

Writing is a form of art. It is a skill; a gift. It is addiction; passion; love. It is my life. — Helen Deakin

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

Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat. — Dorothy Parker

Writing as an art form belongs to all people, regardless of economic class or educational level ... A writer is someone who writes. — Pat Schneider

It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments. — Robert E. Howard

Yell. Jump. Play. Out-run those sons-of-bitches. They'll never live the way you live. Go do it. — Ray Bradbury

The art of integrating the ego and the impulse for empathy in a dynamic call and response. — Mary Gaitskill

People don't really have a relationship with great writing or great production or great art direction or great direction. They just sort of admire it. — Steven Moffat

I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone. — Marvin Harris

I can't keep myself from creativity. Ideas flash like lightning burning my bones. It must flow out of my hands or it will burst me apart. — Patricia Robin Woodruff

A book is a living breathing piece of art and you are just the person it chose to channel its story. Be humble. — Lori Lesko

It's possible I am the only art critic that a lot of people read. And maybe Robert Hughes, if he's still writing. — Peter Schjeldahl

Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion. — Rachel Cusk

All great movies have one thing in common: every frame of every scene could stand alone as a work of art. Why should it be different in a book? — Sean Hinn

It's neither and it's both. That's the perfect kind of art. Labels only detract from the artist's intention. — Ted Dekker

Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato. — George Berkeley

Travel is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with existence or the exotic. It is almost always an inner experience. — Paul Theroux

The art of writing is mysterious, the opinions we hold are ephemeral ... — Jorge Luis Borges

Writing isn't a source of pain. It's psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain. — Dean Koontz

Art Gropes. It stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure of itself, waiting to pounce. — John Gardner

To grow in craft is to increase the bredth of what I can do, but art is the depth, the passion, the desire, the courage to be myself and myself alone. — Pat Schneider

When I'm writing, really writing, everything but breathing is an ignorable distraction. — Dennis R. Miller

Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil. — Edward Dahlberg

Venice, it's temples and palaces did seem like fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

A film that is a true work of art transcends theatre and heartwarmingly changes lives. — A.D. Posey

The art of the word is painting + architecture + music. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

If you don't think screenwriting is a work of art, good luck in your life without a soul. — A.D. Posey

Programming is the art of writing essays in crystal clear prose and making them executable — Per Brinch Hansen

It's surprising that readers don't see challenging writing as morally hazardous, when it might be pushing the same kinds of boundaries as art does. — Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing. — Isaac D'Israeli

Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it. — Walter Darby Bannard

True alchemy lies in this formula: 'Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse'. — Arthur Rimbaud

Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality. — John Gardner

The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow. — Kurt Vonnegut

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. — Ray Bradbury

Art, in a sense, is life brought to a standstill, rescued from time. The secret of making it is simple: discard everything that is good enough. — James Salter

In other words, if your boy is a poet, horse manure can only mean flowers to him; which is, of course, what horse manure has always been about. — Ray Bradbury

Remember The Poem ... — R.M. Engelhardt

The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism. — Simon Schama

I was a poet. I had no expectations other than creating a world of art with words that would live on long after I was gone. — Jason E. Hodges

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

That's how it is with art. Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning are incapable of such writing. — Haruki Murakami

I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of creative ebb, another step by another art on the road that may indeed end in extinction. — Stephen King

The art of writing involves making as many cups of tea as you can in the time available for writing. Then adding extra time for writing ... — Alan Dapre

To come up with one great sentence, one needs to serve a life sentence. — Lera Auerbach

Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction:
Simply to participate. — Alan Moore

Storytelling is the art of unfolding knowledge in a way that makes each piece contribute to a larger truth. — Philip Gerard

Writing is the process of making my soul tangible on paper. — Me

Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art. — Walter Darby Bannard

The writing of headline is one of the great journalistic arts. They either conceal or reveal am interest — Claude C. Hopkins

The art of fiction is freedom of will for your characters. — Cynthia Ozick

The great art of writing is knowing when to stop. — Josh Billings

Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft. If you want to write, practice writing. — Ann Patchett

The art of living. Isn't that a funny expression? — Anne Frank

We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies
but this is very different. — David Foster Wallace

That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time. — Oscar Wilde