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I kept on writing and illustrating, for this is what I did well because I loved it. — Jean Craighead George

I write well on the road. I have the energy, I have the motivation to write. I'm happy when I'm on the road. — Pam Houston

Stanley went on, highly dangerous, fanatical and additictied to violence'- Blimey Fred, is it your mother writing this? They seem to know you so well — Jonathan Stroud

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way. — Caroline Gordon

My stories are my children. Some are sweet infants that I coddle and care for. Others are old enough now, they need to damn well get a job! — Christy Hall

Mohr was one of the most talented people on the staff of Time, in print as well as in person - the two are often different. — David Halberstam

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

Well, if you're writing a thriller, you have to have your character in mortal jeopardy on page 1 or it's not a thriller. — Don Winslow

I gave Joss Whedon and Judd Apatow their first writing jobs, as well as many other untried writers who went on to great success. — Roseanne Barr

Never pump the well dry; always leave a bucket there. — Truman Capote

The writer, his eye on the finish line, never gave enough thought to how to run the race. — William Zinsser

...being "rather unique" is no more possible than being rather pregnant. — William Zinsser

Good writing is good writing, whatever form it takes and whatever we call it. — William Zinsser

I work daily, but not always on comics. I'm doing quite a bit of writing now, and I teach as well. — Jessica Abel

I'm often dismayed by the sludge I see appearing on my screen if I approach writing as a task--the day's work--and not with some enjoyment. — William Zinsser

I'm just focusing on 'Let's Stay Together' and slowly building my production company. I'm trying to get into writing as well. — Kyla Pratt

My worries travel about my head on their well-worn path, and it is a relief to put them on paper. — Mary Ann Shaffer

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

If I am unhappy, I can write "damn it" in my personal diary, but I can't do that on a microblog so I might as well not start one. — Fan Bingbing

But on the question of who you're writing for, don't be eager to please. — William Zinsser

While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying. — Marilyn Vos Savant

Writing is such a lonely work that I try to keep myself cheered up. — William Zinsser

Your success as a writer will probably not depend on how well you write so much as in how you handle rejections. — Gilbert Morris

What is a historian? Someone who doesn't write well enough to work on a daily. — Karl Kraus

All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to write he said or she said is divine. — Stephen King

People approach writers, assuming we pull a perfect text out of our nose each time (well spelled). Spelling is the least of it. — Sara Levine

Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can. — Sue Grafton

If I write as well as I golf, I'm in trouble! — Buffy Andrews

He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge. — Charles Bukowski

I write really well on the road. — Pam Houston

[On book promotion:] The reward for writing well appears to be not to be able to do it for a long time. — Rosellen Brown