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What I tend to do is I try and get as much writing done ... I get as much writing done at home before I go into work. — John O'Keefe

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 love writing. I love to write, and I would eventually love to have some of my work produced. — Liana Liberato

The best and easiest lesson for me was to learn that writing is mostly hard work. — Bonnie Jo Campbell

In writing, there is art. And in art there is craft ... — Susi Moore

Writing is a craft, being an author is work, and having readers and a following is a gift. — Michael J. Kannengieser

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. — Gustave Flaubert

I don't associate work with feelings of satisfaction. Rather, guilt, frustration, and resentment of people who write better than I do. — Garrison Keillor

I've found the best way to revise your own work is to pretend that somebody else wrote it and then to rip the living shit out of it. — Don Roff

I've loved doing 'E.R.' for the quality of the writing and the great people I get to work with. — Julie Bowen

A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated. — Robert Benchley

Writing is such a singular and lonely occupation. And it's interesting; all of the work that you create is so singular. — James Avery

Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance ... — Edgar Degas

[To an author who asked his opinion of his writing]
I have found only three things wrong with your work, the beginning, the middle, and the end. — George Bernard Shaw

You can spend a day in a library and feel: 'Great, I've done a day's work.' But it's only research, not writing. — Richard Flanagan

The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying. — Steven Pressfield

We writers are a crazy group. I can't think of any other profession where the actual work is deep within, uncomfortable, and wanting out. — C.J. Heck

When you're writing, you're on your own, and I like to work as a team. — Carine Roitfeld

I enjoy writing the same way I enjoy doing standup. Part of the challenge is being creative and making it work no matter what the constraints. — Greg Fitzsimmons

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

You call this a script? Give me a couple of 5,000-dollar-a-week writers and I will write it myself. — Joe Pasternak

When it comes to me, I just write the most beautiful music I can, I do the best work I can, and then I hand it out there. — Barry Manilow

When I write new worlds, I work in layers, building and throwing out, and building anew. — Lauren Groff

My day job is writing for television. So I've been on enough sets, and I know how things work. — Tom Scharpling

Writing is work, but it's also a compulsion, and once you get your characters on paper, you can't abandon them. You have to respond to them. — Rosamunde Pilcher

Real work is completed in silence and strikes a chord in the minds of only a very few. — Carl Jung

It's certainly hard to find fault with a work that quotes Shakespeare, Homer, and a dirty limerick about "the young man from Oswego. — Simon Sheppard

The vital power of an imaginative work demands a diversity within its unity; and the stronger the diversity the more massive the unity. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Writing your own jokes, you just kind of keep working on something until you think it might work, and then you try it out and hope for the best. — Aziz Ansari

There is an audience for everything; our job as writers is to do the work and provide readers with a choice. — Elizabeth Hernandez

For those you work with or interact with regularly .. get a notebook and write down positive aspects of each of those people. — Rhonda Byrne

The main thing about writing is ... writing. Sitting your butt down in the chair and doing the work. — Ben Fountain

The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on. — Ernest Hemingway,

Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere. — Don Roff

Writers: read books. Read good books. Read bad books. Learn what does and does not work. — Kira Hawke

My work is more driven by the creative word. It's immersed in other writing and printed work, rather than drawn so much from life or past experience. — Raymond Pettibon

My life is ruled by four W's: my writing, my work, my wife, and my whisky. Not necessarily in that order. — Ashwin Sanghi

Writing is thinking and thinking is hard work. — Lewis Black

I am very present in my work and my work is somehow an expression of my soul, but at the same time I think that a writer cannot write out of nothing. — Paulo Coelho

Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know. — C.S. Forester

Writing is hard. I mean, I sit there and work at it. — George R R Martin

Writing is not 'lonely work' but "alone work'; authors are known to be reclusive and like spending time with themselves. — Brie Edison

Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out. — Eli Roth

I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work. Which meant that life did not feel like work. — Neil Gaiman

Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work. — Cheryl Strayed

My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I am. — Susan Sontag

Books work as an art form (and an economic one) because they are primarily the work of an individual. — Seth Godin

The work is more important than the talking and the writing about the work. — Dorothy Day

The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work. — Randy Wayne White

I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar. — Steve Earle

Writing is easy, good writing is hard and excellent writing is hard work. — G.H. Guzik

If everyone took his pen and wrote just anything that came on his mind, we would greatly help researchers to understand how our minds work — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Writing is hard work and bad for the health. — E.B. White

Writing is difficult. It's a time commitment, it's labor and I'd have to get myself to sit down and actually do the work and outline. — Busy Philipps

Destroying the planet is like stepping from a moving train and thinking it will all work out. — Jason E. Hodges

Writing is rewriting... If you fall in love with the vision you want of your work and not your words, the rewriting will become easier. — Nora DeLoach

And dialogue, I'm good at it, and it's because it's the only thing you have to work with in TV writing. — Maria Semple

Fun is when you're writing a song and you're trying a rough shot at a demo and ... it works. That's when it's fun. After that, it's work. — Tom Scholz

Poets and writers don't live either for money or for fame. And even without any recognition for their work they keep on writing! — Avijeet Das

The writing for me is hard work and I always look forward to drawing the pictures. — Marc Brown

Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just as profound as the pyramids. — James Turrell

I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know. — Mel Brooks

Writing is a legal way of avoiding work without actually stealing and one that doesn't take any talent or training — Robert A. Heinlein

The best way to learn to write is to study the work of the men and women who are doing the kind of writing you want to do. — William Zinsser

I'm partial to coffee shops, brain work, and poems on the page. I write after midnight. Sometimes, twisty syntax happens, and I surrender. — Marvin Bell

Solitude and quiet are highly desirable, but the lack of them is no barrier to writing ... The will to work builds all the seclusion that one needs. — John Braine

Clearly the work of a master teacher who has deep knowledge of his subject and enormous empathy for his students and his readers. — Betty Edwards

Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work. — Gary Paulsen

A film that is a true work of art transcends theatre and heartwarmingly changes lives. — A.D. Posey

I just have to be super strong when it comes to my work time. Shut the browser, ignore the email alerts, and just WRITE. — Sarah Dessen

General writing about science, even if we do it badly, helps us to see our work in perspective and broadens our vision. — Martin Rees

Work, love, courage and hope,
Make me good and help me cope! — Anne Frank

No individual element in your story, including the hero, will work unless you first create it and define it in relation to all the other elements. — John Truby

I truly believe that if you put your goals in writing, speak them out loud and work for them, they will happen. — Ciara

With a bit of luck and a lot of hard work, this writing thing may just pan out. — Rebel Miller

After you have finished a piece of work, the work is then none of your business. Go on and do something else. — Natalie Goldberg

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

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 get angry about things, then go on and work. — Toni Morrison

Songwriting is like working on a jigsaw puzzle, and it doesn't make any sense until you find that last piece. It has to make sense or it doesn't work. — Chrissie Hynde

Ask photographers to write and they have nothing to say; ask them to talk about their work and they won't shut up. — Bill Jay

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

Good writing is more about graft and craft than inspiration and aspiration. — Johnny Rich

Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work. — Ai Weiwei

When I was writing Caramelo the last couple of years, a sixty-hour work week was normal. And now I'm lucky if I have eight hours. — Sandra Cisneros

Hard core authors are determined about their craft, and they know that building a brand entails hard work. They eat, breathe and live their writing.: — Geraldine Solon

We can create transcending stories for readers and for us. Creativity is a double edge sword, which can kill the writer. — Rossana Condoleo

My first love is writing and producing. So I sometimes put my own stuff off to work on other people's projects. — Missy Elliott

I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work. — Charles Babbage

Torture yourself about your failures. And then get back to work. — Tony Kushner

I love going to the movies and being moved emotionally. I like my work, singing and writing in my journal. — Elizabeth Daily

Every time I complete a major project I reward myself with two full days of just reading and coffee! I do justify that it is my work! — Delia J. Colvin

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area. — Nadine Gordimer

Every time your work is read, you die several deaths for every word, and poetry is like being flayed alive. — Mary Stewart

There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks. — Mabel Seeley

I've found that busting your ass on a daily basis to make your art good, clear, and meaningful creates the most luck. — Don Roff

I'm the biggest critic of my own work, but sometimes you nail a chapter so good that you have to take a step back and admire that bitch. — R.D. Ronald

Sweat, blood, and tears mean nothing in your writing if you're not willing to burn what doesn't work. — Jason E. Hodges

I would say that writing, both the act of writing, and of course reading of other people's work is, for me, supreme joy. — James Lipton

Writing is work and cooking is relaxing. — Diane Mott Davidson