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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

sometimes i am not sure.
if i am
writing the poem
or the poem
is writing me. — Sanober Khan

There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private. — Terry Tempest Williams

In writing, there is art. And in art there is craft ... — Susi Moore

Bea stared at the pencils as if they were enemies. — Carla H. Krueger

Say it new or say it straight. — Sol Stein

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

Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough. — David Bowie

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

You do violence with your words if you force them - art is given - the words received, moment by moment from unseen hands - call it a Muse ... — John Geddes

A novel is no different than graffiti in a bathroom stall, it's just more pretentious. — Christy Leigh Stewart

Writing is the one art form that really should allow you to hang yourself. — Peter Sotos

Art is craft, not inspiration. — Stephen Sondheim

When it comes to performing and entertaining, the art removes itself from the writing. — Scott Avett

We write to go on living, after we have died. — Jenim Dibie

To me Art (poetry) is a continuous and continuing process and that when a man fails to write good poetry he fails to live fully or well. — Charles Bukowski

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

The most important thing about writing a book is having book parties. — Art Buchwald

The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, I read, therefore it writes. — Italo Calvino

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

Creativity is the brain's invisible muscle -- that when used and excercised routinely -- becomes better and stronger. — Ashley Ormon

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

Why write [about my art]? Why not just show the photographs? — Constantin Brancusi

The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature. — C.S. Lewis

There are times when quantity is at least as important as quality in learning an art. — Lawrence Watt-Evans

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

Writing, photography...art. It's all about what's in focus. — Kelly E. Lindner

I get angry about things, then go on and work. — Toni Morrison

Do you write novels?" I said.
"Novels, Lord no," she said. "I can't even stay married. — Pam Houston

By encouraging the critic in themselves (the hater) they have killed the artist (the lover). — Brenda Ueland

I figure whatever I choose to create, I'll be neglecting somebody - so my art may as well make me happy. - Audrey Niffenegger — Jen Campbell

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

Painting and writing are solitary arts. — Conrad Hall

Style jazzes up your canvas. — A.D. Posey

I want to never settle for anything less than my soul on paper. — Jonathan Culver

(Francis) Bacon's best known writings are his essays. They are loved for many reasons, such as their being so short. — Richard Armour

Art is everywhere. — A.D. Posey

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist. — Pablo Picasso

What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes. — Thomas Mann

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 key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture. — Louis L'Amour

i want to bleed ink and shit prose. — Jonathan Culver

Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from something that happens in my head and my heart. — E.L. Konigsburg

When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is. — Walter Darby Bannard

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

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

writing is a craft, not an art, and that the man who runs away from his craft because he lacks inspiration is fooling himself. — William Zinsser

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

My writing is a wild mustang - more thunderous than a lightning storm -and all my skill which I call art, is devoted to simply staying on ... — John Geddes

The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed. — Gustave Flaubert

Sometimes writing a single line is enough to save your own heart. — Clarice Lispector

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

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

I've found that busting your ass on a daily basis to make your art good, clear, and meaningful creates the most luck. — Don Roff

Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off. — Joseph Conrad

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

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

Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art. — Ursula K. Le Guin

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

Try to be someone upon whom nothing is lost! — Henry James

Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified. — Maxwell Perkins

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

You know how writers are ... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves. — Orson Scott Card

Fresh, solid ideas feel like gifts to writers, therefore every morning is Christmas. — Criss Jami

Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around. — Stephen King

Why is joy not considered a fit subject for an artist? — Eugene Manlove Rhodes

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

Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, but because it wishes to be art. — Donald Barthelme

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

Writing is an art. A document is your canvas, words are your paint, and a keyboard is your paintbrush. — Lizzy Grimm

Art is too often discounted as a secondary priority. The writer is necessary to society. — Kayla Rae Whitaker

I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing. — Harvey Pekar

I think all writing about art is in some way dancing to architecture. It's all about similitude, being analogous, metaphorical, adjectival, etc. — Rob Chapman

There's a fine line between minimalism and not trying very hard. — Tom Pappalardo

True writing is not an art or science but it's an anthem to preach own soul — Kunal Jajal

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

Art is much more confined by materials than writing is. — Molly Crabapple

I always thought writing was the foundation and the basis for journalism in the same way being able to draw is the foundation for art. — Bob Schieffer

All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing. — Salman Rushdie

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

Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one. — Enid Blyton

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

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

I deal with emotional pain through therapy, writing, therapy in music. I think emotional pain is best dealt with when you use art to express it. — Naturi Naughton

I'm working when I'm fighting with my wife. I constantly ask myself-how can I use this stuff to literary advantage. — Art Buchwald

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

Drawing and painting is like a quickie in bed. Were as novel writing is a long term relationship, much more fulling. — Tara Dobbs

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

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos ... to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream. — John Cheever

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