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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
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
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
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
You may very well ask what the goddess of love is doing in St. Andrews, writing trashy romances. Adapting.
— Kelly Link
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
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
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
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
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
Because until we write it down, we don't know what is actually at the root of our lives.
— George A. Sheehan
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
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
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 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 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
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
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
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
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
The feeling of the uselessness of what I am doing is linked to this other feeling that nothing is more serious.
— Maurice Blanchot
Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.
— Siri Hustvedt
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
