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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
Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life.
— James Norman Hall
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 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 poemsto 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
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
The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
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
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
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
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
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
Being an author is to have a toe in the creative pool and a foot in the vat of commerce.
— Fennel Hudson
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
