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