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[On her writing agenda:] Make the familiar exotic; the exotic familiar.
— Bharati Mukherjee
Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.
— Aaron Sorkin
Your eyes make me pick up my pen and write.
— Avijeet Das
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the imagination is worth a thousand pictures.
— J.E.B. Spredemann
Proper writing ink comes in a bottle, can be swirled like brandy in a glass, and smells like apple blossom after rain.
— Fennel Hudson
You say grace before meals. I say grace before I dip the pen in the ink.
— G.K. Chesterton
It's not so much that I write well, I just don't write badly very often and that passes for good on television.
— Andy Rooney
If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?
— Joyce Carol Oates
My philosophy has always been if I can learn just one thing from an article or book on writing, it's worth it.
— Writer's Digest Books
In the act of creation, as in all the arts, the soul should be felt in the face and the fingers and the tongue, even in the cavities.
— Chris Campanioni
Readership is highly dependent upon format and distribution as much as it is on content.
— Sara Sheridan
I think you have to read a lot. I think if you're going to write about something you better have read at least 100 books on that topic.
— Larry Winget
I can remember sitting in a cabin outside of Denver writing that with a can of soup on the stove.
— Gordon Lightfoot
Hold on, and dont put us on hold
— Timothy Joshua
A world that does not love, respect and protect its Women is doomed to perish! Because Women are Mother Earth!
— Avijeet Das
Work on one thing at a time until finished.
— Henry Miller
Like most writers, I tend to find out what I feel on a subject by writing about it. It is how we interpret the world, how we make sense of it.
— Robert Galbraith
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
I would rather spend money on something, that fulfills me for eternity. Rather, than something that fulfills me for only an hour or two.
— Mary Sage Nguyen
After you have finished a piece of work, the work is then none of your business. Go on and do something else.
— Natalie Goldberg
On Writing: A multitude of improbabilities can be forgiven as long as enough plausibility has been established.
— Danielle Ackley-McPhail
My life on earth is personal journey.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.
— Julian Barnes
Writing a book is like sliding down a rainbow! Marketing it is like trudging through a field of chewed bubblegum on a hot, sticky day.
— Betty Dravis
We all need to focus on our writing. Because the millions of readers out there don't care about your blog.
— J.A. Konrath
I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor.
— Thomas Harris
It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing.
— Karl Ove Knausgaard
Nothing will train you to write better as a writer, than working on your next book.
— Brandon Sanderson
Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.
— Nick Cave
Whatever coast he's on, a man should be himself. I don't write in any particular idiom, I write Charles Mingus.
— Charles Mingus
People always go on about sleaze, but I think it's only a small part of what I write about.
— Marc Almond
One journalist complemented another that his article on a dispute, had made both sides see themselves as they are.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
We write to strengthen our soul and the spirit of other souls.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A scar is like writing on your body. It tells about something that once happened to you, such as a cut on your skin where blood came out. What
— Margaret Atwood
Get your passion on the paper. Detach from the outcome. Forget about whether it's going to get published.
— Wayne Dyer
I can be a woman on a mission. But I'll choose what mission that is. And that my friend is where youll see the results.
— Kia Carrington-Russell
If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.
— Salman Rushdie
That's all any writing could ever be. Words on paper that burn intensely when read and then diminish over time.
— Tim Seeley
Caesar's double-bed is warmAs an unimportant clerk
Writes i do not like my work
On a pink official form. — W. H. Auden
All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another.
— Francine Prose
Writing calls on unused muscles and involves solitude and immobility.
— Dorothea Brande
No one ever does the last thing on their list.
— Ariel Gore
So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.
— Clarice Lispector
Never take yourself too seriously. Learn to let go and let the words flow.
— Caron Kamps Widden
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
By writing out your desires and goals on a piece of paper, you send a red flag to your subconscious mind that these thoughts are far more important
— Robin S. Sharma
All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs.
— Antonin Artaud
Writers have to be tenacious to the point of being pathological. Rejection and criticism is assured.
— Mary Lawrence
I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.
— J.K. Rowling
You're not gonna start writing 'Hardy loves Miracle' all over your notebooks, are you? Sing her a song and post it on YouTube?
— M. Leighton
Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
— Neil Gaiman
Rejection is no badge of honour.
— Johnny Rich
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
Writing is a prayer.
— Franz Kafka
for the average team, insisting on writing tests first, before functional coding, improves quality.
— David J. Anderson
Being an author is to have a toe in the creative pool and a foot in the vat of commerce.
— Fennel Hudson
I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.
— Ted Dekker
Writing heals my heart like no pill ever could.
— Rob Bignell, Editor
Poor, harmless paper, that might have gone to print a Shakespeare on, and was instead so clumsily defaced with nonsense.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
All songs are already perfectly written. It is the writer's job to find it and get it on paper.
— Beth Nielsen Chapman
There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started drinking.
— Charles Bukowski
I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.
— Jeanette Winterson
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
— Samuel McChord Crothers
Writing, real writing, should leave a small sweet bruise somewhere on the writer ... and on the reader.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
![On Writing Quotes By William Golding: I don't think they [contemporary writers] read me](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/on-writing-quotes-by-william-golding-56534.jpg "On Writing Quotes By William Golding: I don't think they [contemporary writers] read me")
I don't think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work.
— William Golding
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
You can think deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper into a subject, depending on what you are writing about.
— Douglas McGrath
You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it.
— Thomas Harris
Each day a raid on the inarticulate--T.S. Eliot
— T. S. Eliot
My early life has given me a great deal to draw on, certainly - but would I have swapped a happy childhood for the writing? Yes.
— Bruce Robinson
When Chaplin found a voice to say what was on his mind, he was like a child of eight writing lyrics for Beethoven's Ninth.
— Billy Wilder
Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.
— Raymond Chandler
When I was young I was only thinking of writing, and whatever was going on was unreal and comparatively unimportant.
— William Monahan
I don't like people who sit on computers all day long and write about people they don't know anything about.
— Paris Hilton
I don't really write jokes. I wait for stuff to happen in life, and then I tell it on stage.
— Kathleen Madigan
