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As I write, My fingers tap tap the keys the way Ravi Shankar's fingers pluck and strum the strings of his sitar.
— Christina Westover
There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.
— Terry Tempest Williams
He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.
— Jasper Fforde
It's a myth that older writers can't write for younger audiences. Shakespeare wasn't 15 when he wrote Romeo and Juliet.
— Tracy Keenan Wynn
Content, it dreams awake, and spins the fabric of tales. There is really nothing to be done with such imagery except to use it: in writing, in art.
— Patricia A. McKillip
Writing is an abstract art of drawing pictures of the conscious and subconscious mind with words.
— Debasish Mridha
If we don't value the people who inspire us (and money is one mark of that) then what kind of culture are we building?
— Sara Sheridan
Music resembles poetry, in each
Are nameless graces which no methods teach,
And which a master hand alone can reach. — Alexander Pope
Are nameless graces which no methods teach,
And which a master hand alone can reach. — Alexander Pope
Writing is a simple but elusive art," he said. "To write is to describe. Describe accurately and respectfully. And perhaps passionately.
— Josh Farrar
I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.
— Elizabeth McGovern
When it comes to performing and entertaining, the art removes itself from the writing.
— Scott Avett
To me Art (poetry) is a continuous and continuing process and that when a man fails to write good poetry he fails to live fully or well.
— Charles Bukowski
I like to think of myself as a fiction writer who liked art enough to write about it for a while, and then went on to his fiction.
— Tom Robbins
In the act of creation, as in all the arts, the soul should be felt in the face and the fingers and the tongue, even in the cavities.
— Chris Campanioni
You dive deeper, you strip away the cleverness and the words become more important than your ego and that's when you know it's real, when it's good.
— Kamal Ravikant
The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.
— Steven Pressfield
Writing is a creative art form and the acting and directing is more of an interpretive art form.
— Clint Eastwood
For me, art that's alive and urgent is about what it is to be a human being.
— David Foster Wallace
Acceptance and validation are the fuels of the future.
— Kevin James Breaux
The whole world is like an opened candy jar, and we're plunging in for the best treats
— Vicki Alayne Bradley
Creativity is the brain's invisible muscle -- that when used and excercised routinely -- becomes better and stronger.
— Ashley Ormon
The best and only thing that one artist can do for another is to serve as an example and an inspiration.
— Steven Pressfield
Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn.
— Jacques Barzun
Writing is a form of art. Do not use New Times Roman or Arial because it's boring and hackneyed.
— Natalya Vorobyova
Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both truth and art.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Where was I? in remarking that me is the envelopes and not nearly so much so, the often foolish letters inside.
— Edward Gorey
Art goes on in your head. If you said something interesting, that might be a title for a work of art and I'd write it down.
— Damien Hirst
Publishing is a business and writing is an art. The two have to be crammed together despite the clearly different motivations behind them.
— Michelle M. Pillow
Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.
— William Shatner
I was so used to doing art that my fingers were like albino spiders. So it was just natural for me to go to a typewriter and write poetry.
— Patti Smith
Some people may be more gifted than others, but excellence in writing, as in any art form or craft, involves discipline and practice.
— James B. Stewart
A book is a living breathing piece of art and you are just the person it chose to channel its story. Be humble.
— Lori Lesko
Art can't be taught; passion can't be taught; discipline can't be taught; but craft can be taught. And writing is both an art and a craft.
— Elizabeth George
It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.
— Robert E. Howard
I don't care about my "impact" - I only care about the theater as an art form and criticism as an act of writing.
— Neil Patrick Harris
On Writing About Nora Hawks
I write about a female character to try, in vain, to understand two things: the purpose of life, and women. — Dennis R. Miller
I write about a female character to try, in vain, to understand two things: the purpose of life, and women. — Dennis R. Miller
The art of writing is the manipulation of words to ease the mind and free the imagination
— Danielle M. Maistry
Conflict. Conflict. Where art thou conflict?
— Buffy Andrews
There is beauty in the art, and a story in the words! spk
— Susan Pace-Koch
I spoke fire, laughed smoke, and madness spilled forth from my inspiration.
— Arthur Holitscher
Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion.
— Gloria Vanderbilt
Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought.
("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy") — Yevgeny Zamyatin
("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy") — Yevgeny Zamyatin
Writing is like painting. You sketch it, add colour, add depth and detail. You give it a final layer and then hang it proudly.
— Kia Carrington-Russell
The art of integrating the ego and the impulse for empathy in a dynamic call and response.
— Mary Gaitskill
Let us prove to the world that good taste, good art, and good writing can be good selling.
— William Bernbach
If you schlep a shit job everyday, keep and feed a little secret life
whether it's writing, art, running, music, your thoughts. It's yours. — Don Roff
whether it's writing, art, running, music, your thoughts. It's yours. — Don Roff
I haven't ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
— Dick Cavett
Dive again and again into the river of uncertainty. Create in the dark, only then can you recognize the light.
— Jyrki Vainonen
The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
Writing is a unique art-form. You are painting a detailed image in someone's mind, and it will be different for every single reader.
— Giuseppe Bianco
Write. Don't think. Relax.
— Ray Bradbury
I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this.
— Xavier Dolan
Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos ... to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.
— John Cheever
writing is a craft, not an art, and that the man who runs away from his craft because he lacks inspiration is fooling himself.
— William Zinsser
i want to bleed ink and shit prose.
— Jonathan Culver
Painting and writing are solitary arts.
— Conrad Hall
There's a fine line between minimalism and not trying very hard.
— Tom Pappalardo
I always thought writing was the foundation and the basis for journalism in the same way being able to draw is the foundation for art.
— Bob Schieffer
Writing isn't a source of pain. It's psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain.
— Dean Koontz
Art Gropes. It stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure of itself, waiting to pounce.
— John Gardner
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
Drawing and painting is like a quickie in bed. Were as novel writing is a long term relationship, much more fulling.
— Tara Dobbs
My writing is a wild mustang - more thunderous than a lightning storm -and all my skill which I call art, is devoted to simply staying on ...
— John Geddes
Venice, it's temples and palaces did seem like fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
It's neither and it's both. That's the perfect kind of art. Labels only detract from the artist's intention.
— Ted Dekker
Programming is the art of writing essays in crystal clear prose and making them executable
— Per Brinch Hansen
Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
— Joseph Conrad
True alchemy lies in this formula: 'Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse'.
— Arthur Rimbaud
Writing is an art. A document is your canvas, words are your paint, and a keyboard is your paintbrush.
— Lizzy Grimm
In the future, as in the present, as in the past, black people will build many new worlds.
This is true. I will make it so. And you will help me. — N.K. Jemisin
This is true. I will make it so. And you will help me. — N.K. Jemisin
Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.
— Ben Hecht
It's art that's taught me to think and to write.
— Andy Goldsworthy
Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.
— Stephen King
The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.
— Henry James Sumner Maine
Since fat crayons, I write and display chaos. My plan is damage.
— Louis Eric Barrier
Writing is an art and a skill that can be developed
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
Books work as an art form (and an economic one) because they are primarily the work of an individual.
— Seth Godin
It is my entire visual art practice: I eat, sleep, think, write about and do drawing.
— Deanna Petherbridge
Literature is painting, architecture, and music.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write.
— Kurt Vonnegut
It's possible I am the only art critic that a lot of people read. And maybe Robert Hughes, if he's still writing.
— Peter Schjeldahl
The perfect song neither ends nor begins. It is always playing. Remember to stop and listen.
— Stella Mowen
Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction:
Simply to participate. — Alan Moore
Simply to participate. — Alan Moore
I write things down because my thoughts get too heavy in my head and it hurts my neck.
— Joyce Rachelle
Writing reminds you that you're never alone. Writing and reading is to be optimistic.
— Richard Flanagan
I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.
— Kami Garcia
I get angry about things, then go on and work.
— Toni Morrison
Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from something that happens in my head and my heart.
— E.L. Konigsburg