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But I never want to get to the point where I write a safe song or one that represents my sense of a subject in order to appear civilized. — Suzanne Vega

Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else. — Aaron Sorkin

The men who make history have not time to write it. — Klemens Von Metternich

I write every day ... I never get ideas unless I'm actually writing. Ideas I get in the shower don't do me any good. — Janet Fitch

The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them. — Paul Johnson

Expectation is the dirtiest word in a traveler's vocabulary. — John Early

Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life. — James Norman Hall

One of the notebooks was for musings and pep talks. ... The other notebooks were for writing out the novel the way authors had done for centuries. — Gail Godwin

The story is always better than your ability to write it. — Robin McKinley

You say grace before meals. I say grace before I dip the pen in the ink. — G.K. Chesterton

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense. — Benjamin Franklin

I knew I would be famous one day. That's because I lived in a very small town and nobody liked doing the same things I did, like writing. — Alice Munro

I want to write something that makes it easy for young people to look right into the abyss. — Dave Mustaine

I don't think any man writing can worry about what the act of writing costs him, even though at times he is very aware of it. — Robert Creeley

Why does the writing make us chase the writer? Why can't we leave well enough alone? Why aren't the books enough? — Julian Barnes

To begin impatiently is the worst mistake a writer can make — Antony Beevor

Details are the Life of Prose. — Jack Kerouac

I prefer the absurdity of writing poems
to the absurdity of not writing poems. — Wislawa Szymborska

I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write. — Karen Thompson Walker

Your character that you create in your writing not only represents who you are, but also represents a number of people who you've met along the way. — Grant Morrison

The further you go in writing the more alone you are. — Ernest Hemingway,

The act of creation fascinates me. You can only sit with blank page and wait. You cannot press a button, cannot program it. — Joan Rivers

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings. — Carol Ann Duffy

A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out. — Francis Bacon

I spent a lot of time star-gazing, writing, and learning languages when the other kids were doing cooler things in Detroit. — Lizzo

Many women arrange their lives around the people they love. Unfortunately, that arrangement takes up most of our days. — Holly Robinson

I believe the best creative writing lessons live in the specifics. — Jeff VanderMeer

If fiction and fantasy books are escapism, then let an author write them so as to better equip the reader to face reality by the end. — Brett Armstrong

The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done. — Flannery O'Connor

If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry. — Harry Callahan

Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years. — T.K. Naliaka

The more PR buzzwords you include in your press release, the less likely I am to write you up — Ben Parr

Try not to write the parts that people skip. — Elmore Leonard

The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing. — Henry James Sumner Maine

After all this time I found that the novel is in fact punk rock. — Craig Ferguson

If I propose to myself and myself says yes, I get to have the cake, right? I love me, so I'm thinking 12 tiers. — Michelle M. Pillow

To write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a flag to the top of a mast in a raging gale. — Virginia Woolf

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

The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say. — F Scott Fitzgerald

The only thing better than a well-read book is a well-read book only read by yourself. — S.A. Tawks

A literary agent is nothing but a cheap salesman (or woman); while a writer is a cheap salesman (or woman) who also has to actually write the books. — John Hodgman

I love stand-up, but the process of writing is a little more lonely. I want to keep doing both, though. — Jack Whitehall

Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays. — Annie Baker

So what else you into, then? I mean except reading and writing, talking like the Queen, and dressing like my granddad? — Alexis Hall

In the same way that Shakespeare was writing very much for his time, he was also unearthing observations that would last for generations beyond him. — Alexis Denisof

New York is perfect. Just the way it is. In all its imperfection. — Christy Hall

I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write. — Ellen Glasgow

He had writing the way other people had religion — Paula McLain

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

I find that writing is the silver lining of life, allowing me to transform vexing experiences into fresh story ideas...after much vexed venting. — Laura Quinn

At chaos' core lies the invitation. — Gina Greenlee

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one. — Salman Rushdie

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

Writers have to be tenacious to the point of being pathological. Rejection and criticism is assured. — Mary Lawrence

One of the hardest parts of writing is writing from the gut or the heart or something like that rather than intellectually. — George R R Martin

He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written. — George Orwell

The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more. — Sara Sheridan

Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon. — Ann Patchett

Yes the sex scenes are explicit but we all love the dirty bits! — Airam

I love writing, but I have that E. E. Cummings idea that as long as you stay inside the rules of your own world, it doesn't matter what it is. — Pete Wentz

for the average team, insisting on writing tests first, before functional coding, improves quality. — David J. Anderson

I do not want to have the feeling of writing 'for eternity', so to speak. — Elfriede Jelinek

Writing is like shadow boxing. Editing is when the shadows fight back. — Adam Copeland

Being an author is to have a toe in the creative pool and a foot in the vat of commerce. — Fennel Hudson

People try to force things. It's disastrous. Just leave your mind alone. Your intuition knows what it wants to write, so get out of the way. — Ray Bradbury

Before I write I let my mind go blind and let the lord do his thing. — Tupac Shakur

Writing is a struggle no matter what the genre. — Susan Wiggs

The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience. — Arthur Schopenhauer

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

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

When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of. — Cesare Pavese

Writing heals my heart like no pill ever could. — Rob Bignell, Editor

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

Sometimes it is just about taking the first step, only then can greatness find us. — Colleen Mariotti

It is almost possible to measure a writer's skill by the dexterity with which he repeats, and yet avoids monotony. — George G. Williams

I love the process of creating a story that will resonate in my readers lives ~ either inspiring them, educating them, or entertaining them. — Kathryn Albright

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 think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person. — Virginia Woolf

No amount of therapy can replace the joy of revenge writing. — Mylo Carbia

That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones. — Raymond Carver

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego. — John Cheever

I think when you write an enigmatic character into a film, you have to have real confidence that the audience are going to go with it. — Gemma Arterton

Only half the story is true. The rest is necessary. — John Yau

For me, there is urgency in fiction, even though writing is, in itself, an act against the corrosiveness of time. — Romesh Gunesekera

I speak to the paper, as I speak to the first person I meet. — Michel De Montaigne

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

My biggest lesson ... was to try and create narrators that were believable ... so the listener becomes really invested in the story or the song. — Kristian Bush

I don't believe in that country any longer. I'm not interested. I'm writing in the language, and I like the language. — Joseph Brodsky

Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters. — Neil Gaiman

Names that tell stories have been worth millions of dollars. So a great deal of research often proceeds the selection of a name — Claude C. Hopkins

The writings of leading ID proponents reveal that the designer postulated by their argument is the God of Christianity. — John E. Jones III

The writings are built by imagination. Emotions fill the colours to them. — Sameer Khan

Style means the right word. The rest matters little. — Jules Renard

Revision means throwing out the boring crap and making what's left sound natural. — Laurie Halse Anderson

I get very invested in characters, it's the only way I find that I can write a book and really make it work. — Gail Simone

Whenever something good happens, write it down. Buy a special notebook ... and use it to list all the good in your life. — Peter McWilliams

The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me. — John Irving

The purpose of paragraphing is to give the reader a rest. The writer is saying ... : Have you got that? If so, I'll go to the next point. — Henry Watson Fowler

The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it. — Gabrielle Roy

Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking. — Amy Tan