Business Writing Quotes
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The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
— John Steinbeck
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
— Gore Vidal
You don't have to reinvent the wheel ... just steal the hubcaps.
— Michael P. Naughton
If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing business at all.
— Leo Burnett
Please think about your legacy, because you're writing it every day.
— Gary Vaynerchuk
Writing is a business and should be practiced as such. On days when you think you can't possibly write a line you do it anyhow.
— Henry Denker
Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.
— Mario Vargas-Llosa
To become successful, one must put themselves in the paths of giants!
— Lillian Cauldwell
I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.
— William Hague
My tombstone would someday read I died keeled over at my computer writing a screenplay or a business plan.
— Gabriel Campisi
Publishing is a business and writing is an art. The two have to be crammed together despite the clearly different motivations behind them.
— Michelle M. Pillow
Writing is a hard business, but nothing makes you feel better
— Ernest Hemingway,
As for writing, that's a cruel hard business. Unless you're very lucky it'll break your heart.
— Edward Abbey
Writing is not a literary act but spiritual. And pastoring is not managing a religious business but a spiritual quest.
— Eugene H. Peterson
I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a profession is that?
— William Kittredge
Keep an idea log where you write everything down, even the bad ideas.
— Joshua Schachter
Yeah, man I am going to be writing a book soon. The reality of being in a rock band in the music business'.
— Steve Brown
A person who doesn't have a structured way of writing their goals will experience disorder, even in the comfort zone.
— Onyi Anyado
I am always writing; if you want to survive in this business, you need to keep working, keep creating and never stop the output.
— Rufus Wainwright
I have a car business and if I had to do an estimate on my face, I would probably write it off.
— Jim Watt
The business of writing is empathising with situations that aren't your own.
— Richard North Patterson
I've always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art.
— Gay Talese
Writing is a solitary business. It's just you and your characters and a blank page you need to fill.
— Shannon Celebi
As much as writing is an emotional experience, it is a business as well. Coming from a business background, I treat it as such.
— Chevy Stevens
I realize that a writer's business is setting fire to Piggy Sneed-and trying to save him-again and again; forever.
— John Irving
There's very little of the intentional about the business of writing poetry, as least as far as I can see.
— Paul Muldoon
Frankly, anybody who's going to kill themselves because of a bad review has no business writing a novel in the first place.
— Robert Galbraith
I don't give a damn what other people think. It's entirely their own business. I'm not writing for other people.
— Harold Pinter
Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars.
— Nicholas Sparks
When you fail, get hurt, feel bad, but act on it! Everybody fails, but the ones who act are the ones who change the world!
— Vishwas Mudagal
This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.
— A.A. Milne
I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing.
— Sara Gruen
Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world
— Ann Patchett
If you want things to change, you must change. If you want things to get better, you must get better.
— Ted Atoka
Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals. Preferably big ones.
— Donald Trump
The trouble with the publishing business is that too many people who have half a mind to write a book do so.
— William Targ
Do little things every day that no one else seems to want to do, be patient, and success will find you.
— Brandi L. Bates
Out of silence I begin to hear the voices of characters whispering snippets of a story to me.
— Chuck Waldron
The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.
— Frank Miller
Great content inspires action.
— Dane Brookes
If, at the close of business each evening, I myself can understand what I've written, I feel the day hasn't been totally wasted.
— S.J Perelman
Working together as a team helps build a cohesive organization.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
No matter how good it is, your book will not sell itself.
— Elinor Florence
To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.
— Samuel Johnson
After you have finished a piece of work, the work is then none of your business. Go on and do something else.
— Natalie Goldberg
If prisons, freight trains, swamps, and gators don't get ya to write songs, man, y'ain't got no business writin' songs.
— Ronnie Van Zant
I was hooked on writing. I mean, where else can you get paid for sticking your nose into somebody else's business?
— Bette Greene
Writing is a lonely business.
— Sherman Alexie
The purpose of writing inspirational notes is simply to build others up because there are too many people in the demolition business.
— Norman Vincent Peale
The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius.
— H.L. Mencken
I'm not the hands-on guy. I like writing the check, and I turn it over to the guys that make it happen, much like the way I ran my business.
— Foster Friess
In the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another name for craft.
— Joseph Brodsky
The problem with taxation is that authors can't write off whiskey as a business expense.
— Bryan Way
I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business.The day you die. — Yasunari Kawabata
To write about business one should be in business, just as in writing about Tasmania one should visit Tasmania.
— James Cook
Writing can be a frightening, distressing business, and whatever kind of structure or buffer is available can help a lot.
— Aimee Bender
If you can't write like New York, you have no business living in New York and making New York the locale of your stories.
— James M. Cain
