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The central point of the work of art is the work as origin, the point which cannot be reached, yet the only one which is worth reaching.
— Maurice Blanchot
Genius is the art of taking pains
— Claude C. Hopkins
As I write, My fingers tap tap the keys the way Ravi Shankar's fingers pluck and strum the strings of his sitar.
— Christina Westover
Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Content, it dreams awake, and spins the fabric of tales. There is really nothing to be done with such imagery except to use it: in writing, in art.
— Patricia A. McKillip
As the saturating colors of sun-life fade from sight, the ominous moon reaches out its long arm and applies the dark dyes of night.
— Daniel J. Rice
Writing is an abstract art of drawing pictures of the conscious and subconscious mind with words.
— Debasish Mridha
Art is the bridge across the gap between peoples and cultures. Writing is one of the arts that can help link people.
— Charles Ray
If we don't value the people who inspire us (and money is one mark of that) then what kind of culture are we building?
— Sara Sheridan
The dirty secret of art is you don't have to show people your bad writing. That's what we have the delete key for.
— Robert McKee
Writing is the only art form where a good number of the artists make a slice of their living criticizing one another in print, in public.
— Christian Bauman
One of the great things about art is you get to see what your concerns are, what those things tumbling around inside you are.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.
— Elizabeth McGovern
Very often human beings don't become available for the purposes of art until they have shaken off some of their dogged, self-preserving sanity.
— Christopher Morley
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
The best kind of writing is that which comes from the authors soul.
— Ndiritu Wahome
Writing is a creative art form and the acting and directing is more of an interpretive art form.
— Clint Eastwood
Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Writing is the most solitary of arts.
— Joyce Carol Oates
The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written.
— Elizabeth Kenny
Acceptance and validation are the fuels of the future.
— Kevin James Breaux
The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.
— Victor Hugo
Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.
— Steven Pressfield
The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.
— Mary Heaton Vorse
The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.
— Alan Sillitoe
Writing, like any art, is a continuing process of discovering the infinite possibilities of Life.
— Hubert Selby Jr.
The fear of Mortality is the base of Immortality
— Udayveer Singh
The art of integrating the ego and the impulse for empathy in a dynamic call and response.
— Mary Gaitskill
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
— Edith Wharton
The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship
— Kinky Friedman
Yell. Jump. Play. Out-run those sons-of-bitches. They'll never live the way you live. Go do it.
— Ray Bradbury
The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
The craft of writing is the art of penetrating other minds with the figures that are in your own mind.
— John Steinbeck
Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
— Dorothy Parker
The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Text talk? How can the art of writing, once performed by monastic scribes, have degenerated into little more than creative candyfloss?
— Fennel Hudson
The art of writing is the manipulation of words to ease the mind and free the imagination
— Danielle M. Maistry
In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul
— Albert Camus
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The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
What is art to the dilettante but the initiation of the sacred few to the exclusion of the profane crowd? ...
— John Geddes
Artistry is the dance of color & form, whether visual, musical, or sparked in the imagination by the written word.
— Cathryn Louis
Achilles exists only through Homer . Take away the art of writing from this world , and you will probably take away its glory .
— Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand
Dive again and again into the river of uncertainty. Create in the dark, only then can you recognize the light.
— Jyrki Vainonen
I don't *ever* write about real people. Art is supposed to be better than that. If you want a slice of life, look out the window.
— Barbara Kingsolver
I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art.
— Jean-Francois Chevrier
No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
— Gustave Flaubert
The art and act of writing - speaking just for myself - involves getting your proverbial ass in the proverbial chair.
— Jerry Stahl
On Writing About Nora HawksI write about a female character to try, in vain, to understand two things: the purpose of life, and women. — Dennis R. Miller
The art of writing is mysterious, the opinions we hold are ephemeral ...
— Jorge Luis Borges
Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.
— Walter Darby Bannard
The writing of headline is one of the great journalistic arts. They either conceal or reveal am interest
— Claude C. Hopkins
The art of fiction is freedom of will for your characters.
— Cynthia Ozick
The great art of writing is knowing when to stop.
— Josh Billings
The art of living. Isn't that a funny expression?
— Anne Frank
The art of the word is painting + architecture + music.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato.
— George Berkeley
Travel is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with existence or the exotic. It is almost always an inner experience.
— Paul Theroux
Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.
— Edward Dahlberg
It's neither and it's both. That's the perfect kind of art. Labels only detract from the artist's intention.
— Ted Dekker
Programming is the art of writing essays in crystal clear prose and making them executable
— Per Brinch Hansen
It's surprising that readers don't see challenging writing as morally hazardous, when it might be pushing the same kinds of boundaries as art does.
— Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook
True alchemy lies in this formula: 'Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse'.
— Arthur Rimbaud
The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.
— Ray Bradbury
Books work as an art form (and an economic one) because they are primarily the work of an individual.
— Seth Godin
Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
— Khaled Hosseini
A book is a living breathing piece of art and you are just the person it chose to channel its story. Be humble.
— Lori Lesko
It's possible I am the only art critic that a lot of people read. And maybe Robert Hughes, if he's still writing.
— Peter Schjeldahl
The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.
— Henry James Sumner Maine
Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.
— Stephen King
I don't care about my "impact" - I only care about the theater as an art form and criticism as an act of writing.
— Neil Patrick Harris
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
— John Steinbeck
It is quite beneath the dignity of a person holding a Bachelor of Arts degree to engage in such a vulgar occupation as the writing of novels.
— Fukuzawa Yukichi
Art is the overflow of emotion into action.
— Brian Raif
Storytelling is the art of unfolding knowledge in a way that makes each piece contribute to a larger truth.
— Philip Gerard
Remember The Poem ...
— R.M. Engelhardt
The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism.
— Simon Schama
That's how it is with art. Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning are incapable of such writing.
— Haruki Murakami
