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I watch movies and hang with my family, go shopping, love to cuddle with my dog, Happy, & write songs with my guitar! — Megan Lee

Sometimes I have something stuck in my head and that directs the rhyme that I'm writing with. — Courtney Barnett

In writing and speaking, three is more satisfying than any other number. — Carmine Gallo

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

It's exciting to watch people do and write and say what they feel like doing, writing and saying. — Uzo Aduba

He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by heart. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Write it down and it will come alive. — Efrat Israeli

Traveling is my priority, because it drives the writing, so I teach around the travel, and sometimes the travel is the teaching. — Pam Houston

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

Most journalists are impatient to get their legwork done and to start the actual writing — David Halberstam

People shout out for songs and I don't even remember writing them. — Bobby Womack

Question marks are shaped like hooks for a reason: they will hook the reader and drag them deeper into the story — Chuck Wendig

Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief. — Marcus Valerius Martialis

I am telling you what I know - words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them. — E.L. Doctorow

The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they'd word something or how they'd inflect it. — Dick Cavett

For a living I write stuff that I know is gonna sell to a studio and make a lot of money at the multiplex. — Robert Ben Garant

I've been writing about Vermont independence for nearly ten years ... and, more often than not, it was for an audience of one. — Thomas Naylor

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

Readership is highly dependent upon format and distribution as much as it is on content. — Sara Sheridan

One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric. — Evelyn Waugh

There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either the one or the other. — Charles Caleb Colton

After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published. — Lloyd Alexander

Don't try to follow any trends, just concentrate on writing great songs and knowing your instrument. All the other stuff will fall into place. — Steven Adler

I would rather spend money on something, that fulfills me for eternity. Rather, than something that fulfills me for only an hour or two. — Mary Sage Nguyen

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

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

When I was young I was only thinking of writing, and whatever was going on was unreal and comparatively unimportant. — William Monahan

A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim. — Plato

his facetious grace in writing," and much else. — Bill Bryson

I always say I want to eventually shift my career to directing and writing. — Jonah Hill

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

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

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

I don't like people who sit on computers all day long and write about people they don't know anything about. — Paris Hilton

I don't really write jokes. I wait for stuff to happen in life, and then I tell it on stage. — Kathleen Madigan

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

I am writing my second novel for children for Simon and Schuster. — Marlee Matlin

Poets should never stop writing, because their words could be a powerful inspiration to someone else, whether it be now or 100 years from today. — Delano Johnson

By writing out your desires and goals on a piece of paper, you send a red flag to your subconscious mind that these thoughts are far more important — Robin S. Sharma

I love writing about monsters and food. — Nnedi Okorafor

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

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

If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart. — Terry Brooks

I hate white people writing for black people; it's so offensive. So we go out and look specifically for African-American voices. — Lee Daniels

I wanted to write and think. Activism is a displacing kind of passion. — Randall Robinson

The best writing reflects the author's ideas and communicates them clearly to the reader. — Steve Dunham

In writing scripts now, having made a film, I'm much more conscious of what it means to shoot and edit a movie, and that affects the writing. — Josh Radnor

I'm not into, Hey, what's your sign? or any of that. But I don't know how I got here, and I don't know how I write songs. I don't know why I breathe. — Paul McCartney

There would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing. — Markus Zusak

Find your best time of the day for writing and write. Don't let anything else interfere. Afterwards it won't matter to you that the kitchen is a mess. — Esther Freud

You can't live and write at the same time. — Alison Bechdel

She liked things that had been written by people who had lived short, ugly, and tragic lives. Or, who at least, were English. — Joe Hill

My younger brother and I have been writing together, mainly for fun, for years, but we've been improvising together since we were kids. Literally. — Ty Burrell

There are lots of ways of answering a letter - and writing doesn't happen to be mine. — Edith Wharton

A doctorate study is the passion for extensive research, reading, thinking and writing. — Lailah Gifty Akita

For writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy, freedom. — Joyce Carol Oates

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them. — Mason Cooley

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 have the heart of an artist and the soul of a writer. — A.D. Posey

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

Poor, harmless paper, that might have gone to print a Shakespeare on, and was instead so clumsily defaced with nonsense. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Writing was something I always as a kid thought would be fabulous and glamorous to be a writer. — Ann Leckie

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

You're not gonna start writing 'Hardy loves Miracle' all over your notebooks, are you? Sing her a song and post it on YouTube? — M. Leighton

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

I am often asked why I write, and I don't know really
I just want to. — John Ashbery

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

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

Being able to read well in public and talk about your work in an engaging fashion is part of most writers' job specification. — Sara Sheridan

I know you shouldn't spit in your own soup but I think most crime writing is like TV and doesn't make enormous demands on one's intellect. — Donna Leon

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

There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar. — Amy Bloom

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

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

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

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

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

A few hints as to literary craftsmanship may be useful to budding historians. First and foremost, get writing! — Samuel Eliot Morison

Who knows why we do it? And when we've done it, nobody wants it. Still we keep doing it. That's what makes a writer a writer. — Chloe Thurlow

To withhold words is power. But to share our words with others, openly and honestly, is also power. — Terry Tempest Williams

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

My style of lyric-writing is very specific and has a lot of details, and I think people react most to that. — Craig Finn

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

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

Writing is an art. A document is your canvas, words are your paint, and a keyboard is your paintbrush. — Lizzy Grimm

Books are so strong, you can break their spines and they will still stand for eternity. — Donald J. Bingle

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

It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing. — Kenneth Williams

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

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

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

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

Give me a paper and pen, so I can write about my life of sin. A couple of bottles of gin, in case I don't get in. — Tupac Shakur

I could never write my memoirs, just because too many people are still alive and would be hurt. — Bruce Willis

I have two dogs myself and they are always around when I write, so they tend to creep in there. — Arthur Bradford

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

I've been doing my big theater projects, which take years, and writing a song here and there. — David Friedman