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My writing is like those little carved baskets made in prisons ... — Leo Tolstoy

I have long discovered that geologists never read each other's works, and that the only object in writing a book is a proof of earnestness. — Charles Darwin

I wish every American explored the importance of novel writing, identity, honesty, character and place in fresh-ass ways. — Kiese Laymon

I like to write about things that are extreme in some form. I like to write about something I feel I have to write about. — Suzanne Vega

I write every day ... I never get ideas unless I'm actually writing. Ideas I get in the shower don't do me any good. — Janet Fitch

When you are falling short in vocabulary to explain the emotion in your story.Than you are writing the right story — Tushar Upreti

Writing is simply another means for truth to escape, besides crawling out the hole it's eaten in the author's belly. — Dianne Kozdrey Bunnell

I often fear to talk so occasionally I express my opinions and my love in writing. — Debasish Mridha

In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending. — Don DeLillo

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

I can remember sitting in a cabin outside of Denver writing that with a can of soup on the stove. — Gordon Lightfoot

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

Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action. — Brendan Francis Brown

I can't listen to music when I'm writing. I like music best in a car or on the train. — Nell Freudenberger

In the end, when you're writing a really good song, it strikes the right tone. — Craig Finn

Bear in mind that the novel
no matter how intimate, psychological, or subjective
is always an historical projection of its own time. — Samuel R. Delany

You feel the call. That's the important thing. Now answer it as fully as you can. Take the risk to let all that is in you, out. Escape into the open. — Elizabeth Berg

The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty. — Gail Caldwell

Last night your thin walls invited me to the party next door / reminded me I am a quiet person in a quiet life. — Drew Myron

Writers live within their mind for their flesh and bones are stuck in a far worse place. — Jason E. Hodges

In the last analysis, most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us. — C. G. Jung

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings. — Carol Ann Duffy

For me, directing is like writing with meat. I can write live, in real time, and change things and be confident that I'm helping the movie. — David Ayer

Darwin, writing in Victorian England, shared Glaucon's view (from aristocratic Athens) that people are obsessed with their reputations. — Jonathan Haidt

I spent a lot of time star-gazing, writing, and learning languages when the other kids were doing cooler things in Detroit. — Lizzo

Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world. — Annie Dillard

If she had not found this outlet in writing, she might have grown up to be a tremendous liar. — Betty Smith

It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better. — Ernest Hemingway,

Some people are in misery of carrying the entire world's pain on their shoulders. They are called writers. — M.F. Moonzajer

Do not write the conclusion of a work in your familiar study. You would not find the necessary courage there. — Walter Benjamin

I have never thought of writing as a profession. It is a solitary independent activity in which practice can never bestow seniority. — John Berger

Try writing an entire story with only a thousand words at your disposal. It's a terrific lesson in economy and precession. — Darynda Jones

A lot of writing takes place in the subconscious, and it's bound to have an effect. — George R R Martin

My life is, in a sense, trash. My life is only that of which the residue is my writing. — John Updike

You can't write about a horrible restaurant - if it's a Ma & Pa restaurant no one wants to see you kick Ma & Pa in the chops. — Robert Sietsema

What we have now, shall never be again. The poets of the past sit in amazement of the wanna-be's of an era long gone. — T. Grassan

Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind. — Edward Hirsch

Literacy in North America has historically been focused on reading, not writing; consumption, not production. — Clive Thompson

In mid-stroke of word and paper fusion — Jazz Feylynn

She had words in her heart which she released thru her fingertips. — Eveli Acosta

You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism. — Warren Ellis

I think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing. — Anne Enright

Publishers often push women in a subtle way to focus on fantasy and paranormal writing. — Annalee Newitz

In my own writing, I think of myself as a realist who exaggerates a little. — Michel Houellebecq

Writing a play, you have to retain it all in your head - you need more time. With prose, you can snatch an hour here, an hour there. — Nell Leyshon

Writing is the perfect balance between self-confidence and self-doubt, with a bit of self-delusion thrown in. — Judith Kelman

It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups in the intellectual gazettes. — Ray Bradbury

I enjoy writing rhymes and sitting alone in a room listening to beats. It's pretty amazing. — Joaquin Phoenix

I would like to evoke the sense of wonder and magic in the reader but without invoking the mystical, the supernatural or the transcendent. — Edward Abbey

I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book. — Rick Bragg

I always have to be thinking about who's going to be singing this song, what the context is. I don't sit around just writing in a vacuum, ever. — Adam Schlesinger

It's such a pain in the ass to write a book, I can't imagine writing one if I'm not interested in the subject. — Michael Lewis

Learning voyage, the greatest adventure. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Ambiguity is very interesting in writing; it's not very interesting in science. — Janna Levin

In my head, when the gales are riding wild,
I steer towards catastrophe
then write about it. — Robin Robertson

My natural inclination is to think in scenes. So that's how I write, and the issue for me is usually: what to compress for speed. — Leigh Newman

Own anything you want in your writing and then let it go. — Natalie Goldberg

I much prefer writing an original movie with the screen in mind to transferring a play to the screen. — Neil Simon

Programming is the art of writing essays in crystal clear prose and making them executable — Per Brinch Hansen

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

I'll never stop writing. It's one occupation in which being crazy, even senile, might help. — Fritz Leiber

So much of writing is done alone in a room in sweatpants, with only the Internet for company. — Lauren Weisberger

Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute. — Rebecca Goldstein

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

I always do my draft in long hand because even the ink is part of the flow. — Martin Amis

I feel much more comfortable in politics than I did in book writing. Book writing is so hard. Politics felt easy compared to that. — Zephyr Teachout

In writing, you must kill all your darlings. — William Faulkner

There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing. — Ernest Hemingway,

I like how writing can take you off for a jaunt in your head and then set you back down in the chair where you've been all along. — Georgann Low

While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration. — Charles Stross

I truly believe that if you put your goals in writing, speak them out loud and work for them, they will happen. — Ciara

Writing is an exercise in sculpture, chipping away at the rock until you find the nose. — Stanley Elkin

his facetious grace in writing," and much else. — Bill Bryson

New York is perfect. Just the way it is. In all its imperfection. — Christy Hall

Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon. — Ann Patchett

Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years. — T.K. Naliaka

To write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a flag to the top of a mast in a raging gale. — Virginia Woolf

Give me a paper and pen, so I can write about my life of sin. A couple of bottles of gin, in case I don't get in. — Tupac Shakur

I don't believe in that country any longer. I'm not interested. I'm writing in the language, and I like the language. — Joseph Brodsky

There's magic in the unknown; a brooding fertility in the unknowable that can work on the reader's imagination long after a book is finished. — Claire Wingfield

I write songs from the point of view I had at a time;I'm not tryingto write songs from a young person's point of view.That only ends in disaster. — Nick Cave

Without us, in other words, there can never be hope of a We. — Junot Diaz

General writing about science, even if we do it badly, helps us to see our work in perspective and broadens our vision. — Martin Rees

The most lies we will ever tell in our lives will be to ourselves. — Carla H. Krueger

Write it as it is, don't try to make it like this or that. You can't do it in anybody else's way-you will have to make a way of your own. — Sarah Orne Jewett

I do love using keyboards and I love writing keyboard parts, but I am not a player in the true sense of the word. — Geddy Lee

Writing is thinking in slow motion. — Walter Kaufmann

Here in California, we passed a law against texting while driving. But there's no law preventing you from writing a letter while driving. — Craig Ferguson

Sadness was something I was thinking about in my life outside of writing, so it wormed itself into whatever I wrote. — Elizabeth McCracken

Nobody should be anything, but because I once had a different profession and I'm interested in writing, I took it upon me. — Rem Koolhaas

I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me. — Samantha Shannon

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

Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule. — Stephen King

Looking at old photographs inundates you with a flood of nostalgic emotions! And you can't be sure where you want to swim in the deluge of memories! — Avijeet Das

I do think most poets are in denial about what the real taboos in writing are
the real boundaries. — Katy Lederer

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

When you take the right stairs you will arrive at the precise destination. — Lailah Gifty Akita

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs. — Manuel Puig

I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something. — Ken Kesey

All the friends in the world are in the fountain of a pen. — Michelle Franklin