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The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.
— Ray Bradbury
The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A writer who writes more than he reads is an amateur.
— Harlan Ellison
When you are writing a novel, you aren't making it up. The story is already there. You just have to find it.
— Thomas Harris
Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life.
— James Norman Hall
I was a prodigy who learned how difficult writing was only after getting published. I paid my dues later.
— David Quammen
A childhood filled with adventures, happiness and unabated love.If only I could remember ... — Lynda Fisher
I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.
— Tom T. Hall
A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
— Edith Sitwell
Writing is a lonely are at times, we spend so much of our time locked in a room and never know if we are reaching anyone ...
— Hubert Selby Jr.
Whenever I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.
— Flannery O'Connor
The more I know about God, I am convinced He likes to read books and authors are His librarians. Every soul is a story waiting to be read.
— Shannon L. Alder
Sondheim is my god; I love the man. I learned a great deal about writing from his work, his lyrics, and his structure.
— Richard LaGravenese
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
Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
— Gustave Flaubert
Writing is a way of life.
— Kayla Lowe
I remember when I used to have actual time to write and now you don't have time and you just do it. I think it explains a lot about television.
— Callie Khouri
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
— E.L. Doctorow
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
If you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain ...
— John Geddes
If you hear voices, you're a lunatic. If you write down what they say, you're an author.
— Dani Harper
I've been writing and making my own music for a long time.
— Patti Scialfa
A first-rate story is easily killed by second-rate design.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Never use the passive voice. Do not say, 'It will get done.' Say, 'I'll do it,' and then stick to a solid, unwavering deadline
— Gina Barreca
Here in California, we passed a law against texting while driving. But there's no law preventing you from writing a letter while driving.
— Craig Ferguson
Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.
— Nick Cave
Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.
— Dorothy Day
Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.
— Anne McCaffrey
I've never really thought of writing books. I've never thought about stories as a part of a collection.
— Deborah Eisenberg
I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.
— Samantha Shannon
The survival of poor opinions can make a thinker feel as though he is failing humanity.
— Criss Jami
Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.
— Mohsin Hamid
Think of writing on a consistent basis as something that you get a pass/fail grade on.
— Monica Leonelle
To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.
— Samuel Johnson
Even though 'Glee' is sometimes a hard road, I am very excited about writing a multi-year arc.
— Ryan Murphy
I write everything as a wake-up call to myself and others, to anyone who may have gotten tired of hitting the snooze button.
— Anne Lamott
I'm just writing a story that I want to read.
— Jean M. Auel
Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.
— Henry David Thoreau
I have the feeling that a lot of poets writing now are - they sort of tap dance through it.
— Mary Oliver
Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.
— Lucy Ellmann
The devil had not only acquired a monopoly of the good music and the good fun, but has of late acquired a controlling interest in the good writing.
— Ambrose Bierce
There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.
— Ernest Hemingway,
I've been used for writing rhythm guitar chords for a long time because it's so easy to play and chords just sound good on it.
— Bradford Cox
Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
— Sinclair Lewis
My mother was a journalist, so writing is not unnatural to me.
— Ginger Rogers
An intensely gripping narrative ... expertly crafted and totally addictive ... a must read!
— Maggie Reese
writing is an intensely solitary endeavor, but a story isn't truly heard until many hands have held it.
— Elizabeth J. Church
You can think deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper into a subject, depending on what you are writing about.
— Douglas McGrath
Persistence can look a lot like stupid.
— Kristen Lamb
The strongest should come first in comedy because once a character is really established as funny everything he does is funny.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it.
— Thomas Harris
Two very simple rules: A. You don't have to write.
B. You can't do anything else
The rest comes of itself. — Raymond Chandler
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
— Derek Walcott
Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years.
— T.K. Naliaka
There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
— Neil Gaiman
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
Writing is a prayer.
— Franz Kafka
Well, yes: people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them.
— Hans Christian Andersen
The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour after hour.
— Lincoln Child
A doctor is a man who writes prescriptions, till the patient either dies or is cured by nature.
— John Taylor
Writing historical fiction is a legitimate use of Multiple Personality disorder.
— Peggy Ullman Bell
People don't believe me when I tell them I'm a magician who makes portals to other worlds. So I tell them I'm a writer instead.
— Genesis Quihuis
Nothing will train you to write better as a writer, than working on your next book.
— Brandon Sanderson
So much of writing is done alone in a room in sweatpants, with only the Internet for company.
— Lauren Weisberger
When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
— Samuel Butler
I'm not a great writer. I'm a great rewriter.
— Paddy Chayefsky
A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.
— William Faulkner
You don't teach a person how to write as much as you teach that person how to survive the writing process.
— Rowan Ricardo Phillips
One is a writer, or one is not.
— Monique Wittig
I am writing a book and that takes third place of importance.
— John Entwistle
I have wrought my simple planIf I give one hour of joy
To the boy who's half a man,
Or the man who's half a boy. — Arthur Conan Doyle
No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.
— Ashwin Sanghi
Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so.
— Julianna Baggott
A freelance writer is paid per word, per piece, perhaps.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
