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As a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write, I'm gonna write the way I wanna write! — Jacqueline Susann

I think most people agree there is a component of skill in art making; you have to learn grammar before you learn how to write. — Chris Van Allsburg

Everyone should write a book, if only to see
how much work goes into even the slight volume I send you. — Susan Wallace

And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That's how I operate. — Taylor Swift

I write in my sleep. I don't know how, but I'll work on a song, go to sleep and it's finished when I wake up. — Miley Cyrus

But how do I get to having to write a book? ... It was a mother who bore me, not an inkwell! — Robert Musil

When I sit down to write a novel I do not at all know, and I do not very much care, how it is to end. — Anthony Trollope

You never figure out how to write a novel; you just learn how to write the novel that you're on. — Amy Cuddy

I don't know how to write a children's book. — Maurice Sendak

This is the city that taught me how to write all of these cool songs. Yeah, you guys definitely need a royalty. — Katy Perry

It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest. — Barry Mann

I'm a bit of a political geek anyway, so you tend to write how you think the rhythms of an administration will go. — Armando Iannucci

When I write a film, all I think about is where the thing ends and how to get the audience there. — Jason Reitman

People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

My earliest memories as a child are listening to Beatles records, and they are a big part of how I've learned to write pop songs. — Christina Perri

When writing a book, don't think about who is going to see it. Write about how you feel in the moment. Don't let a good idea get away. — B.A. Gabrielle

If it hurt me to have to give up a painting I figured it had to hurt them to write the check. That's how I came up with the price for my work. — Keariene Muizz

I think I've just gotten better at learning how to write a song. — Jonny Lang

Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how to start. — John Grisham

When you write you have a certain vision of how it could be and it's great to be able to see it all the way to the goal line. — Etan Cohen

Thinking before writing how I feel. That's how I'm able to write all the lies and wrongs. How else can one write something like a fake smile ? — Muhammad Faizan Khan.

The way to write is well, and how is your own business. — A.J. Liebling

How to Write a Poem
Catch the air
around the butterfly. — Katerina Stoykova Klemer

How long it takes to write a book depends on its length. — Walter Jon Williams

Everyone has a book within them. Everyone has to write it thinking, 'How will I help other people? What will the book do to touch lives?' — Joachim De Posada

I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen. — Denis Leary

Every time I write a book, I think how I could be doing it better to please people - a nicer book with nicer characters - but I just can't. — John Burnside

You don't need to know how a story ends, but how it begins. Start writing ... and the rest of the story will write itself. — Jason W. Blair

Eavesdrop and write it down from memory - gives you a stronger sense of how people talk and what their concerns are. I love to eavesdrop! — Jane Smiley

If you want to know what you look like, look into a mirror. If you want to know how you think, you should write — Dennis Prager

A novel must be judged on its merits, not on how hard the journey was to write it. — Johnny Rich

I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from. — K'naan

If you don't have a burning passion for writing, how can you expect anyone else to be moved by what you write? — JoAnn Ross

But it is not at all unthinkable for anyone to tell a writer how to write. It comes with the territory. — Ernest Lehman

What a man Balzac would have been if he had known how to write. — Gustave Flaubert

If you think about how long it takes to write a piece of music for an orchestra, it's outrageous to me, outrageous. — Gail Zappa

Here I am, a Palestinian Arab who only knows how to write in Hebrew, stuck in central Illinois, — Sayed Kashua

I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine. — Barry Bonds

You can write a book on how to ruin someone's perfect day. — Taylor Swift

How to write a book? Start writing,continue writing and finish writing. — Bangambiki Habyarimana

On Writing About Nora Hawks
I write about a female character to try, in vain, to understand two things: the purpose of life, and women. — Dennis R. Miller

If I write something set 60 years in the future, I am going to have to explain how humanity got there, and that's becoming quite a big job. — William Gibson

I was lucky because my mum was a teacher and showed me how to read and write. But most importantly, she encouraged me to use my imagination. — Darren Shan

How is it possible to write one's autobiography in a world so fast-changing as this? — Malcolm X

You write that first draft really to see how it's going to come out. — James A. Michener

If you don't write the story, who will? — Ora Rosalin

I think you have to love the characters that you write. I don't know how you could possibly write a TV show where you didn't love the characters. — Elizabeth Meriwether

The piano is kind of like a dance floor for our thoughts you know? A very woody foundation so that we can really focus on the poetry. — Bianca C

It's really a lot easier to write about things that are problematic. Who wants to hear how happy you are? — Lyle Lovett

I'm a very lucky guy. I get to write music that I love, and lo and behold, people seem to really like it. I know how fortunate I am. — Corey Taylor

I had no idea how complicated and solitary it could be to write a simple book. — Jenny Lawson

By the time you get a job, you know how to behave in a meeting or how to write a simple memo. — Howard Rheingold

How calm and quiet a delight
It is alone
To read, and meditate, and write. — Charles Cotton

I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don't want to limit myself. — Aleksandar Hemon

Ask how to live? Write, write, write, anything; The world's a fine believing world, write news. — John Fletcher

Always make sure to write down whatever you can remember dreaming about. Dreams are just dormant ideas. It's up to you how you use them. — B.A. Gabrielle

Music was my friend when I was a teenager, and I would inhabit and take comfort in lyrics. That's how I want to write. — Yannis Philippakis

You cannot teach a person how to write songs. It's about being your own person and following your instincts. — Kiesza

Chance has something to say in everything, even how to write a good letter — Baltasar Gracian

Every writer should know their target. Aim for the heart ~ hit that and all which follows is sheer ecstasy. — Muse

I wish I could remember how to write a play. I can't remember how they happened. — Tom Stoppard

When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories. — Amanda Hocking

A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one. — Robert M. Hutchins

The only way to write a book, I'm fond of telling people, is to actually write a book. That's how you write a book. — Anne Enright

I didn't want to write a 'this is how it is' Iraq book, because the Iraq War is an intensely complicated variety of things. — Phil Klay

You never learn how to write a novel," he told me. "You only learn to write the novel you're on." He — Neil Gaiman

If I knew how to write a poem, I wouldn't. — James Galvin

How do you learn to write? You sit your ass down in a chair, in front of a laptop, for ten years. Period. — Sean Beaudoin

It's easier to teach a poet how to read a balance sheet than it is to teach an accountant how to write. — Henry R. Luce

It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere. — Annie Dillard

To the folks asking how they can become a comics writer if Marvel doesn't accept submissions ... YOU WRITE COMICS!! — C.B. Cebulski

Don't try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them. — Ray Bradbury

Mozart wrote so many works in his thirty-five years that it would take a lifetime just to write out the notes. We literally do not know how he did it. — Lukas Foss

If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate. — Taylor Swift

I never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that's like three people getting together to have a baby. — Evelyn Waugh

You don't teach a person how to write as much as you teach that person how to survive the writing process. — Rowan Ricardo Phillips

Someone should write a book about how Alice Liddell from Wonderland falls in love with Huckleberry Finn. I might rather want to read that book. — Heather Lyons

Life is the greatest chance that has been given to all of us. So how do you choose to live your life? You've got a pen. Write it down. — Kcat Yarza

I remember in my early 20s when I felt I couldn't live past 30. I was learning how to write. I had a lot of hard work ahead of me. — Carl Sandburg

Scott Adams: From him, I learned how to write a three-panel comic. Probably the best pure writer on the comics page. — Stephan Pastis

Life is a fairytale if we know how to write the story. — Debasish Mridha

Like, even when I speak, I think I speak the same way I write. I kind of see it a certain way, and it leads me to write it exactly how I'm seeing it. — Anthony Hamilton

I want to write my life. I want to be able to write my life.
You are a second away from saying it.
You have no idea how much I love you. — David Levithan

Keep in mind, you can use Auto-Tune and you can know how to work it perfectly, but you still have to know how to write a good song. — T-Pain

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success. — Anne Rice

There are times when I can't believe how much ridiculous stuff happens to me and how brilliant it is to be in a position to write about it. — Carla H. Krueger

I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how. — Fiona Apple

It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song. — Bob Seger

One of the way to get attention is to write a book titled, How to get attention. — Vikrmn

If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn't write a single word, but that would be tragic. — Dejan Stojanovic

I'm a California boy. I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.
(Paris Review Interview) — Ray Bradbury

Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer! — Ray Bradbury

Are Christians too stupid that we can't write a script, we can't film a movie OR we don't know how to act? — Victoria Jackson

I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break. — Jeanette Winterson

I didn't know how to write a novel, so I sort of let it happen in waves. The only way I could write it was to think like scenes in a movie. — Eileen Myles

If I worked as a waiter, I'd go home and write songs and record them. I'd have to. It's the only thing I know how to do. It's the only thing I can do. — Albert Hammond Jr.

Give someone a book, they'll read for a day. Teach someone how to write a book, they'll experience a lifetime of paralyzing self doubt. — Lauren DeStefano

In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job. — Billy Joel

How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived. — Edward Abbey

Upon being asked by a fan how to become a writer, Stephen King replied, Write. — Stephen King