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It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write. — Sinclair Lewis

Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. — Mark Twain

There are no rules in writing. There are useful principles. Throw them away when they're not useful. But always know what you're throwing away. — Will Shetterly

When you're writing about superpowers, you're writing about power. When you're writing about immortals, you're writing about mortality. — Margaret Stohl

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly
they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced. — Aldous Huxley

You need to realize that most writing rules aren't laws, they're rules of thumb. — Patrick Rothfuss

Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing. — Louise Mensch

Never believe anything you think about yourself as a writer when you're not writing. — David Milch

I'm a fairly fast, but sloppy writer, so I'm a big fan of re-writing, and re-writing again. — Jeannette Walls

Don't wait until you're 'in the mood.' Get into the mood by writing. — Margaret Atwood

I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they're by contemporary, commercial American writers. — Lisa Scottoline

You're writing someone's 'future' favorite book. — M. Kirin

The only reason to write a new song is because you're tired of the old ones. — Miles Davis

Mike Royce and I have always had success writing what we know. What we know now is that we're middle-aged, neurotic and fat. — Ray Romano

We're professional worriers. You're constantly imagining things that could go wrong and then writing about them. — John Green

Writing is all about tents: sometimes you're competent, sometimes you're eloquetent. — Kevin Focke

E-mail creates the illusion that you're writing. You're not. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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

Whenever you're making a movie, especially when you're writing, you always have self-doubts. — George Lucas

Be passionate about what you write, believe in your ability to convey timeless ideas, and let no one tell you what what you're capable of. — Christina Westover

Ah, you're the one who wrote the letter. So you can write then? — Prince Philip

As you get older you're told to be sensible, but it's important for writing if you're a comic that you're able to still access that childlike thing. — Tim Vine

When you're writing for a show, you're writing part of the script. You have to tell the story. — Adam Schlesinger

If you're not writing, you're wronging. — Kevin James Breaux

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

I once considered writing a book called I'm not OK and you're not OK, and that's OK. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

If you're going to fall out of love with public approval, something interesting will happen: people will be deeply attracted to your work. — Jeff Goins

A professional writer is someone who writes just as well when they're not inspired as when they are. — Philip Pullman

Stereotypes, they're sensual, cultural weapons. That's the way that we attack people. At an artistic level, stereotypes are terrible writing. — Junot Diaz

When authors write a predominantly white cast, it reflects who they're paying attention to in life. — Kira Hawke

If you're going to have a complicated story, you must work to a map; otherwise you can never make a map of it afterwards. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Publish a book before you're too old to read it without glasses. — Fennel Hudson

Did you hear that we're writing Iraq's new Constitution?
Why not just give them ours? We're not using it anymore. — Jay Leno

A photographer is like a writer ... you're writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story. — Habib Umar Bin Hafiz

We're all writing out of a wound, and that's where our song comes from. The wound is singing. We're singing back to those who've been wounded. — Dorianne Laux

I think when you first start out, you're writing books that are about your immediate place. — Jami Attenberg

Right now we're in the process of writing new material for a new record. — Dave Lombardo

It is so much hard work writing your first novel. You're not even sure that it is possible to do. — Asa Larsson

You're with you 24/7; you must love you the most. — A.D. Posey

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

Songwriting is a really fortunate skill to have to frame living and to find new ways to observe things you're going through. — Feist

Just because we're fictional characters doesn't mean you can pick us up and move us anywhere you want.
the people of Lake Woebegon — Garrison Keillor

Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult. — David Cronenberg

I think sometimes we give people a lot of credit just because they're writing nice sentences even if it isn't adding up to much. — James Patterson

You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing. — Frank Herbert

I've always thought that science and fiction writing have a lot in common because they're both about modeling reality. — Scott Westerfeld

Searching for fish, cook them, eat them. They're gone. Yet, writing is never gone although the writer died. — Pilo Poly

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

You're an artist when you're writing, a businessperson the rest of the time. — Laura Anne Gilman

I think it's just a lack of ability, we're incapable of writing hits. — Kenny Hickey

As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to reconnect with a long-held love. — Gina Greenlee

If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get lucky. — Ira Glass

A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue. — Sharon Biggs Waller

Don't polish it forever, put it out there. At some point the changes aren't improvements, they're just changes. — Dan Alatorre

It's hard to land a devastating jab/cross/hook/uppercut combo to your reader's imagination when you're telegraphing your punches. — Don Roff

You're too busy writing the next book to worry about Googling yourself all the time. — Annette Curtis Klause

Sometimes when you're writing on a ukulele, you're in a totally new land, rhythmically or melodically. — Tift Merritt

Each time you write something, part of you grows. You're training your artistic muscles to find your voice. — Pen Densham

If you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it? — Brian Kernighan

The truth of the matter is that when you write about religion like I do, you're writing about something that people take very seriously. — Reza Aslan

I think writing is better in odd or terrible places. It makes the magic all the more wonderful, because you're getting lost in a beautiful world. — Megan Linski

I'm very comfortable writing in the first person; it dives into the character in a way that's difficult if you're writing in the third person. — Patti Davis

I don't think you can reach your potential as a writer unless you're a passionate reader, AND read passionately. — Michelle D. Kwasney

A book acts as the getaway car when you need to escape.
Even when you're the one writing it. — Julie Wright

The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour after hour. — Lincoln Child

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

Writing sketches, you're also learning about a journey and characters, and you translate that to bigger things. — Jim Rash

When you're writing with someone else it helps you think of things you never would've thought of. — Ingrid Michaelson

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'm skeptical of passive learning. If you don't write down what you're hearing and learning, what the odds you remember it? — Ben Casnocha

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

Just because you're perfectionist doesn't mean you're perfect. — Jack Nicholson

When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else. — Howard Gordon

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

Don't worry about what you're writing or whether it's good or even whether it makes sense. — Lauren Oliver

You can't reduce an actual human being; you're just writing! You're not doing anything to another person. — Vivian Gornick

Not everyone gets to do what they love, be good at it, and get paid for it. If you do, you're lucky. — Britt Holewinski

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average. — Derek Walcott

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

I'm one of those people that believes you should start writing before you think you're ready. — Joseph J. Ellis

I don't read blogs. I'm living the life they're writing about. So why read about it? — Nayvadius Cash

If you're a writer, write. And always strive for excellence. — Linda W. Yezak

Writing a nonfiction story is like cracking a safe. It seems impossible at the beginning, but once you're in, you're in. — Rich Cohen

Anxiety is not only an inevitable part of the writing process but a necessary part. If you're not scared, you're not writing. — Ralph Keyes

I really like comedy. There's always a choice, when you're writing: you can either go for the joke or you can go for the story, the important stuff. — David Chase

We're moving from reading the genetic code to writing it. — Craig Venter

You're allowed to manipulate the environment, but not the character. — Sean Platt

Imagination Is the 1st step to writing the sequel to your life. Dare to believe and you're sure to receive. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate. — Taylor Swift

There's a whole gamut of things to do with film music that don't apply when you're making a record or if you're writing a concert piece or something. — Henry Jackman

Know more about the situation you're facing than a reporter who is writing a major article would. — Laurie Beth Jones

You're a writer. And that's something better than being a millionaire. Because it's something holy. — Harlan Ellison

We're making strange fictions of strange things inside ourselves. — Clive Barker

If you hear voices, you're a lunatic. If you write down what they say, you're an author. — Dani Harper

It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually see. — Flannery O'Connor

I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story. — Naomi Shihab Nye

Publishing a book is like being pregnant. By the end, you're just ready to get that baby out! — Carmen DeSousa

There's no new direction. It's not more poppy or more rocky. They're just rock'n'roll tunes. I'll never change the music I write. — Noel Gallagher

People take things a little too personal. I write these songs, and they're experiments with thoughts. That's it. I'm not a teacher. — Cass McCombs

You should always have 2 books ... the one you're reading and the one you're writing. — Sterling W. Sill