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It's a hindrance to be lonely and isolated in one's work. Ideas stimulate ideas, and the love of writing is contagious." Martha — Erik Larson

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

Writing is hard work: it is like doing homework for the rest of your life. You are always chipping away at it. — John Lutz

My life will be the best illustration of all my work. — Hans Christian Andersen

I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book. — Mercedes Lackey

I think striking the right tone for your story is, if you like, the alchemical work of writing. — Julia Leigh

The funny thing is, about the time I let go of any aspiration toward worldly success, that's about the time I started writing decent work. — Ben Fountain

Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times. — Ernest Hemingway,

The work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.
[on James Joyce's Ulysses] — Virginia Woolf

I've found the best way to revise your own work is to pretend that somebody else wrote it and then to rip the living shit out of it. — Don Roff

I've loved doing 'E.R.' for the quality of the writing and the great people I get to work with. — Julie Bowen

Even if you're in the thick of revising another work, write something new. Something small. It's important to keep telling yourself stories. — Don Roff

When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can. — Jennifer Donnelly

The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire. — Jeffery Deaver

Writing is such a singular and lonely occupation. And it's interesting; all of the work that you create is so singular. — James Avery

[To an author who asked his opinion of his writing]
I have found only three things wrong with your work, the beginning, the middle, and the end. — George Bernard Shaw

We writers are a crazy group. I can't think of any other profession where the actual work is deep within, uncomfortable, and wanting out. — C.J. Heck

The best thing about being a writer is that 'work' is always something you love, plus usually accompanied by tea, coffee and cakes of some sort. — Jamie L. Harding

My work holds up the mirror to hypocrisy, which puts me in a tradition of American writing that reaches back to Nathaniel Hawthorne. — Ishmael Reed

I enjoy writing the same way I enjoy doing standup. Part of the challenge is being creative and making it work no matter what the constraints. — Greg Fitzsimmons

Writers that are pouring their soul out for the world to see, will cast a perfect reflection of themselves in their work. — Jason E. Hodges

My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form. — Raymond Carver

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always. — Arthur Miller

Writers learn their craft, above all, from the work of other writers. From reading. — Marie Arana

A lot of scientists hate writing. Most scientists love being in the lab and doing the work and when the work is done, they are finished. — Stephen Jay Gould

My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the needs of an immediate public, but was done to last for ever. — Thucydides

The best writers I've read possess oodles of self-doubt, yet claw their way up with each work and remain humble. Boastful ones, not so much. — Don Roff

I knew it, I just knew it! The person who had the job of writing my life's dialogue used to work on a very low budget soap opera. — Marian Keyes

A simple [writing] style is the result of very hard work. — William Zinsser

Fame is a spiritual drug. It is often a by-product of our artistic work, but like nuclear waste, it can be a very dangerous by-product. — Julia Cameron

For the writer, discovering the work he will write is both like a miracle
and a wound, like the miracle of the wound. — Edmond Jabes

The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own. — Gerald Brenan

Writing with other people is the only way I ever really work. In some ways it's great because it's helpful to someone pull you out of the loop. — Lauren Mayberry

I am very present in my work and my work is somehow an expression of my soul, but at the same time I think that a writer cannot write out of nothing. — Paulo Coelho

Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels or indie films, stuff like that. — Thomas Lennon

The mind of an artist never sleeps, because dreaming is when they do their best work. — Mark W. Boyer

My English teacher said that a writer is the worst judge of his own work. — Ilsa J. Bick

Work often gets in the way of more important things, like writing. — Paul West

A writer's work is the product of laziness. — Jorge Luis Borges

The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart. — Tennessee Williams

If you were to write down all the possible ways to motivate people to do better work, friendly praise would have to come near the head of your list. — Hannah Whitall Smith

In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul — Albert Camus

When you have a single composer writing his work, it shouldn't be doled out in singles based on the length of a piece. — Gail Zappa

Whenever we can make 25 words do the work of 50, we halve the area in which looseness and disorganization can flourish. — Wilson Follett

The commercial work of today is the classics of tomorrow. — Orson Scott Card

Writing is grunt work - you need to have self-motivation, perseverance, and faith ... talent is the smallest part of it. — Jodi Picoult

Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time. — Napoleon Bonaparte

It is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of. — Samuel Johnson

Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.
Sometimes it's the only story you knew how to tell. — Tahereh Mafi

I think that's great - I just try not to be one of those people. I find the more I think about it, the less free I feel when I write and when I work. — Chang-rae Lee

The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form. — Muriel Rukeyser

The two things I enjoy the most about writing are the first page of a book and the last. What's in between is very hard work. — Rachel Gibson

It's impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the work you create. — Kim Edwards

On the worst day of writing, the work is instructive. On the best day, the act is transcendent. — Chuck Wendig

Fundamentally I think we all write the kinds of work we'd most like to read. Or we try to. — Laurie Foos

All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Martin: Yes, I'd like to go home and do some work. I'm writing a novel about women from the women's point of view. — Caryl Churchill

You need the devotion to your work that a priest of God has for his. — Ernest Hemingway,

I would say that writing, both the act of writing, and of course reading of other people's work is, for me, supreme joy. — James Lipton

Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration? — Ann Patchett

That's the hard work of writing. The imagining. — Jincy Willett

I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know. — Mel Brooks

Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing. — Mark Haddon

What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work. — Virginia Woolf

Three hours of writing require twenty hours of preparation. Luckily I have learned to dream about the work, which saves me some working time. — John Steinbeck

The best way to learn to write is to study the work of the men and women who are doing the kind of writing you want to do. — William Zinsser

Solitude and quiet are highly desirable, but the lack of them is no barrier to writing ... The will to work builds all the seclusion that one needs. — John Braine

Clearly the work of a master teacher who has deep knowledge of his subject and enormous empathy for his students and his readers. — Betty Edwards

My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly. — Anita Desai

Writing is rewriting... If you fall in love with the vision you want of your work and not your words, the rewriting will become easier. — Nora DeLoach

It's a very dull thing to watch, a writer at work. So dull that whole casts of characters show up just to watch the boring writer writing. — Debi Gliori

I've never had any kind of work ethic. I've never sat down with the intention of writing a song. — Dan Bejar

Turning the blog into a book was extremely difficult, a tremendous amount of sustained, hard work. Blogging is easy; writing a book is difficult. — Kate Christensen

Do not write the conclusion of a work in your familiar study. You would not find the necessary courage there. — Walter Benjamin

I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural. — Anne Enright

When the work is the best work, it's more like being a secretary than it is a creative person, you just sort of take the stuff down. — Stephen King

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

I know writers for whom the act of writing is a necessary chore. They suffer to write great work. I am very lucky that for me writing is a delight. — Denise Duhamel

The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work. — Margaret Fuller

Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter. — J.G. Ballard

A writer judging his own work is like deceived husband - he is frequently the last person to appreciate the true state of affairs. — John D. Voelker

I think I view myself primarily as a fiction writer. Poetry is more of a "hobby," a time of rest from the hard work of writing fiction. — Yuriy Tarnawsky

The writer's life: Hard days, lots of work, no money, too much silence. Nobody's fault. You chose it. — Bill Barich

The fear of a work becoming dated is one of the most effective tools for keeping people from writing political work. — Tony Kushner

Wrote my way out of the hood ... thought my way out of poverty! Don't tell me that knowledge isn't power. Education changes everything. — Brandi L. Bates

Whatever (its) virtues, (the) writing explores the culture of work but marginalizes work itself. — Maureen Corrigan

Books work as an art form (and an economic one) because they are primarily the work of an individual. — Seth Godin

Writing your own jokes, you just kind of keep working on something until you think it might work, and then you try it out and hope for the best. — Aziz Ansari

Real work is completed in silence and strikes a chord in the minds of only a very few. — Carl Jung

Most of my work is done before we start shooting, preparation work, so my normal day begins when I start writing, it might even be the night before. — Tina Fey

The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with. — William Faulkner

I think the hard work of writing is just how long a book is terrible before it's good."--Leigh Bardugo — Leigh Bardugo

The vital power of an imaginative work demands a diversity within its unity; and the stronger the diversity the more massive the unity. — Dorothy L. Sayers

You can tell the number of hours spent on a work by counting the number of coffee rings on your desk. — A.D. Posey

As Dorothy J. Heydt famously said, the eight deadliest words for any work of fiction are 'I don't care what happens to these people. — Charlie Jane Anders

This is just the present chapter of my life. How can I give up when God isn't finished writing my story yet? — Deb Brammer

When I was writing Caramelo the last couple of years, a sixty-hour work week was normal. And now I'm lucky if I have eight hours. — Sandra Cisneros

It's hard to convince people when you're just staring out the window that you're doing your hardest work of the day. — Charles M. Schulz

Every time I complete a major project I reward myself with two full days of just reading and coffee! I do justify that it is my work! — Delia J. Colvin

I'm the biggest critic of my own work, but sometimes you nail a chapter so good that you have to take a step back and admire that bitch. — R.D. Ronald