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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

You will not publish 100% of the books you don't write. — M. Kirin

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

Writing is a solitary occupation, except for Presidential speeches and sitcoms. — Ron Brackin

The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they'd word something or how they'd inflect it. — Dick Cavett

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

I just got a fortune cookie that says "Turn off your computer and read a book" which is odd because I'm WRITING a book ... on my computer! — Meg Cabot

Don't try to follow any trends, just concentrate on writing great songs and knowing your instrument. All the other stuff will fall into place. — Steven Adler

Love how editing makes you more confident with your book ...but also makes you want to set it on fire at the same time. — Kira Hawke

The free-lance writer is one who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps. — Robert Benchley

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'm not really one to be on camera, I'd rather be writing songs. — Jon Foreman

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

It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it. — Boris Pasternak

I was so flat I used to put Xs on my chest and write: "You are here". I wore angora sweaters just so the guys would have something to pet. — Joan Rivers

A writer or an author must always be the no.1 fan of his/her book. — Aditi Dufare

After you have finished a piece of work, the work is then none of your business. Go on and do something else. — Natalie Goldberg

My between-books strategy was reading voraciously and on a whim. — Erik Larson

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

Having decided to follow my own intuitive path I began to write music on the basis of harmonized spoken words, for new instruments and in new scales. — Harry Partch

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

You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ. — Woody Allen

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 warm
As 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

For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit. — Philip Roth

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

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

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

If this whole writing thing doesn't work out, I'll be getting right back on the pole. — Diablo Cody

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

I know you shouldn't spit in your own soup but I think most crime writing is like TV and doesn't make enormous demands on one's intellect. — Donna Leon

I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message. — Stephen King

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

This is a little secret that all writers share: We have two lives; the one we live on Earth and the one we live in our books. — Chrys Fey

Tout les jours you are coming some fresh game or other on me, mais vous ne pouvez pas play this savon dodge on me twice! — Mark Twain

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

Focus on action! Go on! Do it! Call them! Write it! Say it! Grab it! Who knows what 'awesome stuff' might happen? Yes - Action is the key! — David Ryan

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

Most days, writing simply requires work-ethic, discipline, clarity, focus, time. Other days ... it will demand absolutely everything of you. — Christy Hall

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

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books. — Tony Judt

Working 9 to 5 is structure. But tying lines together all hours of day is structure at its best performing magic. — C.C. Wyatt