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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

Writing is like painting with watercolour, sometimes it's what you leave out at matters. — Haydn Jones

And what I've found over time is that for me to write a poem that I think is worthy that I can live with, two things have to happen. — Edward Hirsch

A scientist who writes for a grant has to write subpar papers - so that the grant giver will understand what the paper is about. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke

I really do think with my pen, because my head often knows nothing about what my hand is writing. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

The last thing one knows when writing a book is what to put first. — Blaise Pascal

For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good writing is difficult no matter what the reader's age-and children deserve the best. — Aaron Shepard

Writing is about space. It's about what's not said. About showing rather than telling. About making every word count. — Jeff Goins

The first thing to ask when writing a sentence is 'What am I trying to do?' — Stanley Fish

Ursula K. Le Guin urges authors to remember why they do what they do. Her argument is that writing is an form of art rather than a commodity. — Ursula K. Le Guin

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

I didn't think one day something would happen that would bring me back to Wall Street to write what is essentially a sequel. — Michael Lewis

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

What distinguishes Cambridge from Oxford, broadly speaking, is that nobody who has been to Cambridge feels impelled to write about it. — A.A. Milne

You may very well ask what the goddess of love is doing in St. Andrews, writing trashy romances. Adapting. — Kelly Link

What other people think of me is not really my major concern in life. What other people think of what I write is another matter. — Anne Roiphe

What I'm trying to do right now is truly answer my most deepest most unarticulated questions for myself through my writing in some form. — Karan Bajaj

Like most writers, I tend to find out what I feel on a subject by writing about it. It is how we interpret the world, how we make sense of it. — Robert Galbraith

I've realized the most effective way to write, for me, is knowing what to throw away. — Youth Lagoon

I've always sort of felt like what the Shins is, I guess, is a vehicle for my writing. — James Mercer

Part of being a writer is knowing when what you write is really bad. — Reif Larsen

The only sensible approach is not to take it too seriously. What counts is the writing. — Jay McInerney

Anything said is gone as soon as it leaves my lips. Things written down at least have a chance to leave a soft echo of what had been. — Chris Dietzel

Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again. — Delmore Schwartz

You really can't write unless you read. You have to know what the game is all about. — Harold Brodkey

Only occasionally do I read new fiction. Most of my reading is heavily dictated by what I'm writing at the time. — Simon Mawer

You can write a letter with a typewriter, a pencil, or a crayon. What you have to say is the important thing. — Paul Strisik

It is now only in letters I write what I feel: not in literature any more, and I seldom say it, because I keep trying to be amusing. — E. M. Forster

It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write.
What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance. — Steven Pressfield

Writing is just my first love. And I still have some issues with telling people what to do. — Allison Silverman

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

What I fear in writing is the safe decision. — Anne Rice

Writing to corroborate what you already think is the essence of bad writing. — Victor LaValle

Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply. — Patti Smith

Committing your thoughts and feelings to words is like putting your soul on a plate and hoping the diners will like what they eat. — Fennel Hudson

The older I get, the more fun it is to write young people. It's just a holiday from what is becoming old age, really. — Andrew Davies

To grow in craft is to increase the bredth of what I can do, but art is the depth, the passion, the desire, the courage to be myself and myself alone. — Pat Schneider

I always have to be thinking about who's going to be singing this song, what the context is. I don't sit around just writing in a vacuum, ever. — Adam Schlesinger

Ideas are the cheapest part of the writing. They are free. The hard part is what you do with ideas you've gathered. — Jane Yolen

All writing is presumption, of course, since no one knows what it is like to be another human being. — Cynthia Ozick

Writing this book is not just me encouraging others to lean in. This is me leaning in. Writing this book is what I would do if I weren't afraid. — Sheryl Sandberg

Ultimately what I end up writing about is helplessness and the flipside of that, empowerment. — Joss Whedon

A secretary is not a thing Wound by key, pulled by string. Her pad is to write in, And not spend the night in, If that's what you plan to enjoy. — Frank Loesser

Only the poet truly understands what is written between the pregnant pauses they create. — Shannon Lynette

The greatest artists see what is invisible to the masses. — A.D. Posey

Because until we write it down, we don't know what is actually at the root of our lives. — George A. Sheehan

The elasticity of imagination and compassion is what writing and reading promote. — Julia Alvarez

It's easy to write a sentence, paragraph, or book. What's difficult is writing the best sentence, paragraph, or book you can write. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I think what makes people think that is because of things people write. It really doesn't have anything to do with the artist. — Erykah Badu

It's in the dictionary. And when I find what it is, I'll write it down in case it comes up again, I'll be certain to avoid it. — Aimee Mann

Trying to solve the mystery is what I enjoy most about writing. — Jon Ronson

Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called good writing. — Joel Chandler Harris

I was a very good nurse, but I burned out after eight years or so because it wasn't what I truly wanted to do. Writing is what I belong to. — Sue Monk Kidd

If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more complicated activity that that. — Susan Sontag

What we conceal Is always more than what we dare confide. Think of the letters that we write our dead. — Dana Gioia

When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. That's what writing a screenplay is. — John Patrick Shanley

The ego being shattered is not what frightens me - that can be useful for writing - but the ego being inflated is sort of like it dying of gout. — Garth Risk Hallberg

Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I can be a woman on a mission. But I'll choose what mission that is. And that my friend is where youll see the results. — Kia Carrington-Russell

What no wife of a writer understands is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window. — Burton Rascoe

'What time is it,' you ask? According to 16 of my dearest writing pals, it's always time for a wonderful romance! — Teresa Medeiros

I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato. — Arthur Schopenhauer

What is writing? Writing is telepathy. — Stephen King

Writing a book without promoting it is like waving to someone in a dark room. You know what have you done but nobody else does."
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Writing is discovering what you don't know. — Marty Rubin

What I adore is supreme professionalism. I'm bored by writers who can write only when it's raining. — Noel Coward

A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world. — Zadie Smith

The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. — Anais Nin

A scar is like writing on your body. It tells about something that once happened to you, such as a cut on your skin where blood came out. What — Margaret Atwood

Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean. — James Richardson

A novelist who has to defend his creation by telling a reader *But that's what really happened*, is a novelist who has failed. — Samuel G. Freedman

Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me. — Dodie Smith

I write songs to handle emotional pain. I guess what they say is true: with every heartache comes a great song. I also pray and have great friends. — Matt Sorum

All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs. — Antonin Artaud

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

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

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

All of fiction is truthful. What you create is your own truth and no one can take that away or change it. — Walter Dean Myers

The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple - to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it. — Craig Raine

When I'm writing a movie, it's usually pretty close to what the movie is going to be, which is just a luxury of being a writer-director. — J. C. Chandor

What I have written-and how I came to write it-is most powerfully what I am. — Hortense Calisher

That IS what journal writing is all about - showing ourselves to God. — Frank McCourt

What I do when I write is I just write the way I would tell it, so it comes out just exactly the way I would talk to you. — Carol Burnett

My natural inclination is to think in scenes. So that's how I write, and the issue for me is usually: what to compress for speed. — Leigh Newman

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

My new book is going well. It's practically writing itself! Actually, what I mean is I'm not writing it, my clone is. — Jarod Kintz

If what you want to do is write, then it's madness not to do it. — Joseph O'Neill

Writing is what I do. It's what makes me tick. — Michael Robotham

Artistry exists in everyone. What makes it blossom is a soul's personal desire to find an outlet for expression. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Writing poetry is like always being in love. What masochism! What luxury! — Jennifer Stone

The feeling of the uselessness of what I am doing is linked to this other feeling that nothing is more serious. — Maurice Blanchot

Poor reading, like poor writing, is imposing what you already know on texts. You should go into reading to discover, not to reaffirm what you know. — Azar Nafisi

Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened. — Siri Hustvedt

The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man. — Madame De Stael

The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than with shorter pieces. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

What we know about writing the novel is the novel. — Eudora Welty

Too many writers get stuck in the trap of writing what they think is funny and not considering who they are writing it for. — Robin Thede

When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting. — Karl Kraus

Half of what I write is imaginative reality. The other half is realized impossibilities. Blended into one, these make a fantasy. — Nicole Sager