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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
Keep writing. Keep doing it and doing it. Even in the moments when it's so hurtful to think about writing.
— Heather Armstrong
I'm writing books. They're still a mix of fact and fiction and will continue to be. I think it's an interesting place to work.
— James Frey
I sometimes get asked if I think about film stuff while I'm writing fiction, and the answer is, of course not.
— Matthew Specktor
Writing can be wonderful therapy, and cheap at the price. At the very least, you eventually get bored by thinking about anxious topics and move on.
— Ralph Keyes
When I write a film, all I think about is where the thing ends and how to get the audience there.
— Jason Reitman
Writing and learning and thinking are the same process.
— William Zinsser
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
Writing is a business and should be practiced as such. On days when you think you can't possibly write a line you do it anyhow.
— Henry Denker
It's my wish that I can help creative people think of new ways to be creative - to get more joy and understanding from their own unique processes.
— Robert Genn
But still I feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, alright sucker, now what?
— Peter S. Beagle
Thinking before writing how I feel. That's how I'm able to write all the lies and wrongs. How else can one write something like a fake smile ?
— Muhammad Faizan Khan.
For most people who write, writing is a compulsion. If I could be healed of it, I would, and I think a lot of people who write feel the same way.
— T. R. Pearson
We have a reading, a talking, and a writing public. When shall we have a thinking?
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
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 lets you step back and think through a problem. Even the angriest rant forces the writer to achieve a degree of thoughtfulness.
— Atul Gawande
I don't think I'd ever write anything that I don't also direct just because it's so hard and painful to write as it is.
— Cary Fukunaga
I think of an author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, "I will tell you a story," and then he passes the hat.
— Robertson Davies
As a writer who writes poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, I think it's important to always maintain a firm grasp on genre and ethics.
— Kathleen Rooney
Bukharin's a swine and surely worse than a swine because he thinks it below his dignity to write a couple of lines.
— Joseph Stalin
I'm thinking of writing a book on national health care. It will be 2,000 pages, and you'll have two hours to read it.
— Ann Coulter
When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you're done, you have to step back and look at the forest.
— Stephen King
Strangely, I always have a lot of cut scenes. I keep writing shorter and shorter scripts, thinking that this time, I'll get all my scenes in.
— David Twohy
I think I'm just trying to be myself and write songs that are honest. That's what I hear in artist's that I like.
— Michael Gungor
It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
— Seneca The Younger
The writing about what you know thing was a huge one. Not worrying so much about what people think. Just writing for myself and the band is enough.
— Luke Temple
I think a lot of the way that I try to write my stories come from watching my mom write plays and trying to do that.
— Jazmine Sullivan
If there's an idea I think is really good and I feel like I can write it, then I'll do it.
— Matt Damon
I don't think I'd be able to flat-out write a pop song and make it satisfying to me. I'm ready to make a consistent sound in whatever way I can.
— Leon Bridges
I usually try not to think about actors while writing, because the odds of those stars aligning and you getting those specific people are so rare.
— Diablo Cody
Don't think and then write it down. Think on paper.
— Harry Kemelman
Write without fear and put down on your paper what you think, without thinking of what you must say
— Louisa Catherine Adams
Speech is the body part of thinking, the voice of the mind. Writing is the blood and mind mixing to speak through the fingers, through the hands.
— Lenora Champagne
Don't write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what's in your heart.
— Quentin Tarantino
Destroying the planet is like stepping from a moving train and thinking it will all work out.
— Jason E. Hodges
Looking into blood doping. I think it will allow me to write jokes with greater intensity, and for a longer period of time.
— Dov Davidoff
People think I'm educated because I talk and write well, but the fact is I never finished high school. I've read a lot, is all.
— Patricia McConnell
If all the earth were paper white / And all the sea were ink / 'Twere not enough for me to write / As my poor heart doth think.
— John Lyly
Make him [the reader] think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications.
— Henry James
When you write - explode - fly apart - disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite.
— Ray Bradbury
What do you think happens to a composer who is sincere and loves to write and has to wait thirty years to have someone play a piece of his music?
— Charles Mingus
Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!
— H.G.Wells
I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works.
— Haruki Murakami
Writing is like sex. The more you think about it, the harder it is to do. It's better not to think about it so much and just let it happen.
— Stephen King
I think a domestic situation can change you and your attitudes. I suppose if you did get a bit content, then you might not write savage lyrics.
— Paul McCartney
It's a lot easier to think of an app and write it than it is to convince people to want it,
— Steve Wozniak
If you think something should be done, take the trouble to write to me about it, and together we will decide the time and manner of doing it.
— Vincent De Paul
Writing, for me, is the best occupation I can think of, and there is nothing in the world I would rather do.
— Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
I keep going;I keep writing because I know something good will happen, and I want to see it when it happens.
— Millicent Ashby
It's difficult to beat making your living thinking and writing about subjects that matter to you.
— Eleanor Holmes Norton
I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion.
— Edna Ferber
I write things down because my thoughts get too heavy in my head and it hurts my neck.
— Joyce Rachelle
There is nothing like writing to force you to think and get your thoughts straight.
— Warren Buffett
Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing.
— Joyce Carol Oates
I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication.
— Edwidge Danticat
Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.
— Wally Lamb
Don't ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don't pay any attention to me when my job is at stake.
— Christopher Dodd
I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Sometimes I think that my best writing comes from exposing my fears and vulnerabilities and hoping that nobody notices it's about me.
— Victoria Laurie
I think when you write, you should call it a "writing spree." I don't write every day, and I don't write regularly.
— Etgar Keret
I try to keep my voice in writing, and I think that's why I get so many complaints about how I write.
— Stanley Cavell
I felt like you can write forever, but you have a short time to raise a family. And I think a family is a lot more important than writing.
— Ken Kesey
I'm just coming out and I'm going to clearly be myself - I write what I feel, I never worry what others think.
— Avril Lavigne
Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.
— E.B. White
I like to think I'm positive and optimistic about things generally, but what I write does tend towards the darker end of the spectrum.
— Tim Lebbon
I wanted to write and think. Activism is a displacing kind of passion.
— Randall Robinson
A doctorate study is the passion for extensive research, reading, thinking and writing.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.
— Mason Cooley
When I was young I was only thinking of writing, and whatever was going on was unreal and comparatively unimportant.
— William Monahan
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
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
My style of lyric-writing is very specific and has a lot of details, and I think people react most to that.
— Craig Finn
One of the things that writing and speech can do is express what we're thinking one thought at a time.
— David Lipsky
I don't really do anything that isn't about writing, and I don't really know who I am if I'm not thinking about writing.
— Jamaica Kincaid
Bringing up issues that are hard to deal with is a challenge for me, and I think that's what draws me to song writing.
— Brett Dennen
There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks.
— Mabel Seeley
I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.
— Sherwood Anderson
As a writer, I don't think it's my responsibility to make a point. I just write and hope there's someone who'll like it.
— Tama Janowitz
Write regularly, whether you feel like writing or not, and whether you think what you're writing is any good or not.
— Anne Lamott
Instead of writing it wrong six times and then writing it right, I think it wrong six times and then write it right the seventh time.
— Fran Lebowitz
I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
— Joan Didion
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
— George Orwell
I don't freestyle, but when I'm writing and thinking, sometimes things pop up - that's basically a freestyle.
— Andre Benjamin
I think what's really hard is making sense and making what you write clear and smooth-flowing.
— Roy Blount Jr.
Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem.
— Charles Bukowski
It's an incredible privilege to be able to sit in front of a computer and spend a few hours just thinking and writing.
— Nick Blaemire
To make yourself understood you have to think plain and write plain.
— William Feather
I liked the idea of writing a song saying I'm happy with who I am, and I don't mind if people think I'm some old git.
— Marc Almond
These people that write books on how to succeed and how to think positively make millions because it's something that doesn't occur naturally.
— Rush Limbaugh
I actually can't listen to music and write poetry at the same time, but I do kind of think about the music I've been listening to when I write.
— Shane McCrae
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
I write in my own journal when something extraordinary or funny happens. And there's some nice imagery in there. I don't think of what to do with it.
— Annie Dillard
Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together.
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon