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Keep writing. It doesn't have to be anything fancy. Put some words on paper. You never know what will happen. — L.T. Brooks

Finish what you start. Keep submitting until it sells. — Robert A. Heinlein

Keep writing. Keep doing it and doing it. Even in the moments when it's so hurtful to think about writing. — Heather Armstrong

I get my best writing done when I'm supposed to be doing something else entirely. And that's why I keep my day job. — Joyce Rachelle

This winter, there will be no voices, no glimpses, no arms.
only the fabric of poetry, to keep me warm. — Sanober Khan

Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk-away from any open flames-to remind yourself that if you don't write daily, you will get rusty. — George Singleton

If your writing doesn't keep you up at night, it won't keep anyone else up either — James M. Cain

A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated. — Robert Benchley

Rule number four for me as a writer? Plotlines are like sharks: They either keep moving or they die. ~J.R. Ward — J.R. Ward

Entangled cobwebs of my mind keep me awake at night! Need to get back to sm serious writing again! — Deeba Salim Irfan

I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night. — Barbara Kingsolver

I can write about it if I am careful, if I keep it far enough away. — Kij Johnson

The writer's duty is to keep on writing. — William Styron

Whatever's happening today, remember it is only ONE SCENE in a long movie. Don't treat it like it's the whole story. Keep writing the story. — Henry Cloud

Keep rechewing. Like a cow. Use all your creative stomachs. — Elizabeth M. Lawrence

You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you to write it. — Anne Lamott

The only advice anybody can give is, if you wanna be a writer, keep writing. And read all you can, read everything. — Stan Lee

Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose. — Elmore Leonard

I love to write. But it has never gotten any easier to do and you can't expect it to if you keep trying for something better than you can do. — Ernest Hemingway,

I don't have any structured grand plan; I just intend to keep writing about the things that interest me-some of which change, some of which don't. — Greg Egan

It is now only in letters I write what I feel: not in literature any more, and I seldom say it, because I keep trying to be amusing. — E. M. Forster

What you keep alive is what you truly care about, no matter how many times you die in the process. — Shannon L. Alder

I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them. — Delta Goodrem

You know you are a writer when characters inside your brain keep demanding, 'This is my story! Now tell it or I will never leave you alone! — Christy Hall

It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward. — Dani Shapiro

Sometimes I dream that I'm writing a memoir. A memoir would just be the thing to keep me in the hearts and memories of my adoring public. — John Green

I don't have any desire to retire in the sense of not doing anything. As long as the Lord gives me strength I want to keep writing and keep preaching. — Max Lucado

The three rules to writing a novel;

1) Write
2) Write more
3) Keep writing — Sci Furz

I and my silences keep talking to each other. — Avijeet Das

I was a businessman for 16 years of my life, so when I started writing, I wanted to keep my literary identity separate. — Ashwin Sanghi

The only lesson is, you gotta keep at it. — R.L. Stine

The biggest sacrifice to me is to not be in an atmosphere where I can keep writing and moving forward. — Trey Anastasio

Keep moving. Your next big thing may be just around the corner. — Gina Greenlee

I have tried my best to keep my country alive by writing about it. — Nuruddin Farah

Somebody is observing my writings, I know that.
That's one reason why I keep reading and writing. — Toba Beta

I write to keep in contact with our ancestors and to spread truth to people. — Sonia Sanchez

Every sacred soul must walk and keep the way of God in the wilderness for years, to begin the sacred writings. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Start writing, and the muse will come. Not every time, but keep at it, and the muse will come enough for you to get the initial writing done. — Sam Barry

Writing improves in direct ratio to the things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there. — William Zinsser

Writing a first-draft battle scene is akin to real combat - chaos, confusion, and you must keep your cool as you fire word bullets downrange. — Don Roff

One of the reasons that any person writes anything is to try and keep his own sanity together. — Sean Wilentz

The M.F.A. is a degree in servitude. It is a way to keep writing safe - to keep reading safe from writing. — Joshua Cohen

So, it's a continual process of trial and error and then I find things and I throw it out and start again, but I keep writing it over again. — Edward Hirsch

Strangely, I always have a lot of cut scenes. I keep writing shorter and shorter scripts, thinking that this time, I'll get all my scenes in. — David Twohy

Will eventually grow up and get a real job. Until then, will keep making things up and writing them down. — Neil Gaiman

I'm just not in a writing mood, but I keep going. What if the garbage man were not in a garbage mood? or the doctor not in a healing mood? — Jean Nicole Rivers

A watched pot never boils.
It's the same with success. So? Throw that burner on HIGH and just keep on cooking. Dinner will be ready soon. — Christy Hall

I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape. — Ed Westwick

She would keep playing the role of the winner as long as the audience believed her. — Mary Papas

It's like all I can do is keep writing this gibberish to keep from falling apart. — Stephen Chbosky

I just write what I think is good and keep it at a thousand words. — Henry Rollins

Keep Writing, Keep Living, Keep Loving — Frank Ocean

The best way to keep your house spotless is to begin writing a novel. — Jen Knox

Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas. — Arnold Schoenberg

Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life. — Nick Cave

Every time I'm home from tour I try to write some new songs, but it can get really hard trying to keep up with normal life, I always get so behind. — Tim Lambesis

Don't let yourself slip and get any perfect characters ... keep them people, people, people, and don't let them get to be symbols. — Ernest Hemingway,

When I write I just keep a waste paper basket handy in case I am experiencing a block. — Ruskin Bond

People keep asking me ... How to instantly become a better writer? It's simple: Use "power words" and see for yourself. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

I'm pretty disciplined to keep the momentum of a story going by writing everyday, even if it's only a couple paragraphs or a page or two. — James Rollins

I like writing songs - I keep saying that one day I'll do something with them, but I haven't yet. — Tom Conti

Writing is a game of hits and misses. Throw out the hits and keep the misses. — Marty Rubin

In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway. — Junot Diaz

Shame can kill the imagination. It's hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision. — Eloisa James

I keep the description basic as it allows you to mould the story around your life. — Airam

The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible. — Beverly Cleary

Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures;
grace doesn't even write them down. — Bob Goff

Write and keep writing, not because people will like it, but because someone may get a kick out of thrashing your book. — Magus Tor

I try to keep my voice in writing, and I think that's why I get so many complaints about how I write. — Stanley Cavell

I write my stories for my children, the best fan club a writer could ever have. They keep me writing and make it fun. — Alan W. Harris

I am grateful to all my readers; you inspired me to keep writing. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats. — Aldous Huxley

Half the rhymes you write, you're saying that you're better than the other MC. That's how we keep the craft sharp. — Ice-T

I keep dying and hoping you notice me. But you're too busy living. — F.K. Preston

I love stand-up, but the process of writing is a little more lonely. I want to keep doing both, though. — Jack Whitehall

Keep being bold on the page, and in life, and people cannot ignore you forever. — Don Roff

It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off. — Mark Twain

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilisation from destroying itself.
(Interview, New York Post Magazine, September 14, 1958) — Bernard Malamud

If I make you read, then I'll keep quiet. If I make you think, then I'll keep reading. If I make you smile, then I'll keep writing. — Thomas Lopinski

Sharpen your life always; even though it will come to an end like a pencil, we have to keep on writing — Munia Khan

Who knows why we do it? And when we've done it, nobody wants it. Still we keep doing it. That's what makes a writer a writer. — Chloe Thurlow

To unlock the writer's block is to keep writing until you can unknot the "not". If you cannot, then put a can in the plot and unwrap it a lot! — Ana Claudia Antunes

No matter how much money I made from writing, I'd keep the bookstore job. — Jami Attenberg

I keep my TV writing and my book writing almost wholly separate. The audiences feel so different. — Josh Lieb

It's okay to be crazy as long as you keep writing and are happy. — Lori Lesko

At this stage, my chief professional goal is simply to keep on writing and making a living at it. — Fred Saberhagen

Why do I keep evading my work? Is it because I'm afraid of being confronted by my lack of abilities? — Candace Bushnell

I keep thinking about blood, I dream about it. Wake up thinking about it. Pretty soon I'll be writing morbid emo poetry about it. — Cassandra Clare

The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write and keep on writing. — Ken MacLeod

Keep writing and let the world roll on by.
Take the madness of reality and shape it into something worth sharing. — Peter James West

Poets and writers don't live either for money or for fame. And even without any recognition for their work they keep on writing! — Avijeet Das

People are writing shorter jokes. The style I've started with was almost trying to keep jokes under 140 characters before Twitter. — Nick Thune

All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland. — Jimi Hendrix

Even if I knew for certain that I would never have anything published again, and would never make another cent from it, I would still keep on writing. — Brenda Ueland

When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence. — Gao Xingjian

If you're not scared when you are writing you're not working hard enough. You'll be afraid but you have to keep going. — M. Molly Backes

I still have no way to survive but to keep writing one line, one more line, one more line ... — Yukio Mishima

I have a little journal that I always keep with me, and when I need to, I'll write poems and things. It really helps to clear my head. — Haley Pullos

I do keep a tiny little journal in which I write passages that I read and want to hold on to. This practice is sort of the opposite of Twitter. — Dani Shapiro

If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it. — James A. Michener