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I minored in creative writing in college, and I've played with the idea of doing something more hybrid, but comics are my first love. — Gene Luen Yang

Now, practically even better news than that of short assignments is the idea of shitty first drafts. All good writers write them. — Anne Lamott

The first goal of writing is to have one's words read successfully. — Robert Breault

I generally write music first and then hum out the vocal. Sometimes I'll take a phrase that I use as a placeholder and just write around that. — Bucky Pope

If you do something for the first time, you will always remember it. If your Dad has something to do with it, you write about it. — Billy Crystal

What about WRITING it first and rationalizing it afterwards? — Larry Wall

The last thing one knows when writing a book is what to put first. — Blaise Pascal

I first had the idea of writing a popular book about the universe in 1982. My intention was partly to earn money to pay my daughter's school fees. — Stephen Hawking

The first TV babies are now writing with a TV mind that has no attention span at all. — Gore Vidal

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative. — Jojo

The fate of a song is often established in the first 15 minutes of writing. — Jens Lekman

I was first introduced to Kafka's writing during my compulsory army-service basic training. During that period, Kafka's fiction felt hyperrealistic. — Etgar Keret

The first thing to ask when writing a sentence is 'What am I trying to do?' — Stanley Fish

I didn't really want to write just lyrics, but I wanted to meet Leonard Bernstein. Music was always the first reason I was writing songs. — Stephen Sondheim

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter. — Isadora Duncan

I took my first creative writing class when I was 24, then went onto to get a graduate degree in poetry. I've sort of never looked back from there. — Paula McLain

Putting pen to paper without first deciding the route and pace at which to scribe is like setting off on a bicycle without first checking the tyres. — Fennel Hudson

Other-Love is writing's first name. — Helene Cixous

Where your heart is, there is your love. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Unless you have tested the assumptions in your business model first, outside the building, your business plan is just creative writing. — Steve Blank

Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. — Anne Lamott

A writer must have all the confidence in the world when writing the first draft and none whatsoever when editing subsequent drafts. — T. Davis Bunn

I was pregnant with my daughter when I started writing my first thriller, so I guess you could blame hormones. — Chelsea Cain

Writing is lonely. Until that moment you write your first character and suddenly you have company. — Eliza Green

I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was. — Diane Wakoski

The first draft of anything is shit. — Ernest Hemingway,

In order to write about life first you must live it. — Ernest Hemingway,

You want songs to sound cohesive with the other songs on the record but when you first start writing you just want to write to tell the truth. — Jon Foreman

The best parts about writing a show are [its] first, second and 10th anniversaries. Everything else is relative levels of hell. — Alan Menken

I gave Joss Whedon and Judd Apatow their first writing jobs, as well as many other untried writers who went on to great success. — Roseanne Barr

Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from me to you. — Ellen Bass

To me, writing is like learning to ride a bike. At first you have your training wheels on but before you know it, you have graduated to a ten speed!! — Lorine S. Thomas

Writing is a window into our souls. — Katie Kacvinsky

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

Writing out your goals is the first action in a chain of many on the road to achievement. — John Patrick Hickey

When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub. — Gavin Rossdale

When it comes to giving advice, never do so unless you've first received a request in writing, signed by a lawyer. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

I write for myself first and foremost, but I hope that others will enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. — Shannon DuBey

I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time. — Adam Duritz

Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I speak to the paper, as I speak to the first person I meet. — Michel De Montaigne

Writing is just my first love. And I still have some issues with telling people what to do. — Allison Silverman

It is better to write a bad first draft than to write no first draft at all. — Will Shetterly

A few hints as to literary craftsmanship may be useful to budding historians. First and foremost, get writing! — Samuel Eliot Morison

Just start scribbling. The first draft is never your last draft. Nothing you write is by accident. — Guy Garvey

When I first started writing lyrics and stuff, I was writing it to garage, and obviously garage kind of progressed to grime. — Lady Sovereign

Most times, my mind is just an ongoing, present-tense, first-person monologue. It's like I'm writing a novel, constantly, but only in my brain. — Andrew Shaffer

It is not a crime to commit First Degree Writing — Temple Emmet Williams

When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image. — Valerie June

If you want to do this - either write for TV, or write books - the first thing you have to do is write a lot. And I mean a ridiculous amount. — Josh Lieb

I researched fiction writing for months before I taught my first class, much of it looking for strong techniques from bestselling authors. — James Thayer

My existence began the day you were created and was realized the day we met. — Crystal Woods

Getting that first draft out is a horribly hard grind, but that (perversely) is where the joy of it lies. — Jonathan Stroud

Focus on writing first. — Lyra Parish

My dad was an interior design and furniture person. I started working with him for four years before my first TV writing break. — Stephen J. Cannell

The more she tried to recapture the impulse that had set her wanting to put pen to paper, the less it seemed to have ever existed in the first place. — Charles De Lint

for the average team, insisting on writing tests first, before functional coding, improves quality. — David J. Anderson

The first thing I ever learned in roller derby is to fall, and in the author world I believe that same rule applies. — Elizabeth J. Kolodziej

When I met Judd Apatow, he told me I should start writing screenplays. They'd be really bad at first, but the more I did it, the better I'd get. — Bill Hader

Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money. — Virginia Woolf

Action is my first love. When I first started writing, my favorite movies were 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' and 'Aliens', and that sort of thing. — David Leslie Johnson

My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry. — Jan Karon

Jokes that are gratuitously offensive are synonymous with bad writing to me. I'm offended as a writer first and as a person second. — Rachel Bloom

The strongest should come first in comedy because once a character is really established as funny everything he does is funny. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Sometimes when I'm writing a song I'll get carried away with production when I'm only on the first verse, and that sacrifices the songwriting. — Nina Nesbitt

If at first you don't succeed--write more! — N.B. Williams

Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth. — Stephen King

The first draft is just you telling yourself the story. — Terry Pratchett

If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one. — Arthur Brisbane

I'm always writing about character first. Plot, such as it is, comes from the characters. — Daniel Woodrell

If you want your own distinctive voice, you first have to become someone ... — John Geddes

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later. — David Sedaris

When I first started writing the books in the 1980s, all of the female detectives were flawed in some way because they were based on noir characters. — Kerry Greenwood

A first-rate story is easily killed by second-rate design. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play. — Zoe Kazan

To simplify complications is the first essential of success. — George Earle Buckle

We all have a book in us. The first step is recognising this. Writing it is a whole new journey. — Kathryn Joyce

No individual element in your story, including the hero, will work unless you first create it and define it in relation to all the other elements. — John Truby

To secure your historical standing, be sure you are the first to write about it. — Winston Churchill

I'm very comfortable writing in the first person; it dives into the character in a way that's difficult if you're writing in the third person. — Patti Davis

Seventy percent of a first draft is garbage and 30 percent is gold, but you have to write 100 percent to get that 30. — Laurell K. Hamilton

The writing of a poem is, for me, in the first place, an almost total act of abandon leading to discovery leading to recognition. — Marvin Bell

The first story I can remember writing, that I truly set down on paper, was a Christmas story that I wrote when I was ten years old. — Greg Rucka

A good style must, first of all, be clear. It must not be mean or above the dignity of the subject. It must be appropriate. — Aristotle.

Music is the first thing I ever cared greatly about. I've been singing and writing songs since I was six or seven. — Angel Olsen

Writing in the first person helps to make clear the author's role in constructing rather than discovering the story/knowledge. — Gayle Letherby

I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes ... — Phil Dusenberry

Writing is like the relationship with your bowels. First you can, then you can't. Finally, you must. Only then should you reach for the paper. — Howard Nemerov

My first writing job was with a company called TheatreworksUSA. — Robert Lopez

The first book was my first attempt at writing full-length prose. — Neil Simon

Sometimes it is just about taking the first step, only then can greatness find us. — Colleen Mariotti

Singing was probably my first love, and song writing. I write a lot of love songs and heartbreaking songs. — Nolan Sotillo

I think when you first start out, you're writing books that are about your immediate place. — Jami Attenberg

In writing if it takes over 30 minutes to write the first two paragraphs select another subject. — Raymond Aron

It is so much hard work writing your first novel. You're not even sure that it is possible to do. — Asa Larsson

Neither in writing nor in reading wilt thou be able to lay down rules for others before thou shalt have first learned to obey rules thyself. — Marcus Aurelius

Writing is a little bit like prostitution. First you do it for love. Then you do it for a few friends. Then you do it for money. — Moliere

When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person. — Daphne Du Maurier

If you caricature friends in your first novel they will be upset, but if you don't they will feel betrayed. — Mordecai Richler

I am an author of Christian Fantasy. My first 7 books were Christian Romance, but I came over to the Dark Side when I heard there were cookies. — Donita K. Paul