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