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We may end up with a life deferred by the business of its own collection. — Sherry Turkle

Success is the delivery of a product that meets expectation — James Leal

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business. — John Steinbeck

Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith. — Gore Vidal

You don't have to reinvent the wheel ... just steal the hubcaps. — Michael P. Naughton

If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing business at all. — Leo Burnett

Please think about your legacy, because you're writing it every day. — Gary Vaynerchuk

The business of writing is one of the four or five most private things in the world. — Ethel Wilson

Writing is serious business and not for any stray bastard that wants to try it. — Ayn Rand

Unless you have tested the assumptions in your business model first, outside the building, your business plan is just creative writing. — Steve Blank

I love getting out the house because writing is such a solitary business that even being at the library makes me feel part of the world. — Jane Green

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

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories. — Mario Vargas-Llosa

People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting. — Kate Morton

There's way too much pain in this business for anyone who doesn't HAVE to write. — R.A. Salvatore

To become successful, one must put themselves in the paths of giants! — Lillian Cauldwell

I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on. — William Hague

My tombstone would someday read I died keeled over at my computer writing a screenplay or a business plan. — Gabriel Campisi

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

Essentials of how to do a startup do not include writing a business plan — Steve Blank

Writing is a hard business, but nothing makes you feel better — Ernest Hemingway,

As for writing, that's a cruel hard business. Unless you're very lucky it'll break your heart. — Edward Abbey

Writing is not a literary act but spiritual. And pastoring is not managing a religious business but a spiritual quest. — Eugene H. Peterson

I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a profession is that? — William Kittredge

Keep an idea log where you write everything down, even the bad ideas. — Joshua Schachter

Yeah, man I am going to be writing a book soon. The reality of being in a rock band in the music business'. — Steve Brown

A person who doesn't have a structured way of writing their goals will experience disorder, even in the comfort zone. — Onyi Anyado

I am always writing; if you want to survive in this business, you need to keep working, keep creating and never stop the output. — Rufus Wainwright

I have a car business and if I had to do an estimate on my face, I would probably write it off. — Jim Watt

The business of writing is empathising with situations that aren't your own. — Richard North Patterson

I've always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art. — Gay Talese

Writing is a solitary business. It's just you and your characters and a blank page you need to fill. — Shannon Celebi

As much as writing is an emotional experience, it is a business as well. Coming from a business background, I treat it as such. — Chevy Stevens

I realize that a writer's business is setting fire to Piggy Sneed-and trying to save him-again and again; forever. — John Irving

There's very little of the intentional about the business of writing poetry, as least as far as I can see. — Paul Muldoon

Frankly, anybody who's going to kill themselves because of a bad review has no business writing a novel in the first place. — Robert Galbraith

I don't give a damn what other people think. It's entirely their own business. I'm not writing for other people. — Harold Pinter

Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars. — Nicholas Sparks

When you fail, get hurt, feel bad, but act on it! Everybody fails, but the ones who act are the ones who change the world! — Vishwas Mudagal

This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it. — A.A. Milne

I'm not gonna lie ... sometimes this whole writing thing is a lonely business. — Christy Hall

I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing. — Sara Gruen

Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world — Ann Patchett

I just wanted to be a good comic and had no sense of show business, but at some point you want the opportunity to write a show about your life. — Marc Maron

If you want things to change, you must change. If you want things to get better, you must get better. — Ted Atoka

Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals. Preferably big ones. — Donald Trump

The trouble with the publishing business is that too many people who have half a mind to write a book do so. — William Targ

The creature comforts we tend to rationalize as "business expenses I can write off." — Dave Ramsey

Do little things every day that no one else seems to want to do, be patient, and success will find you. — Brandi L. Bates

Out of silence I begin to hear the voices of characters whispering snippets of a story to me. — Chuck Waldron

The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English makes me forget it. — H.L. Mencken

The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business. — Frank Miller

Great content inspires action. — Dane Brookes

If, at the close of business each evening, I myself can understand what I've written, I feel the day hasn't been totally wasted. — S.J Perelman

Working together as a team helps build a cohesive organization. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

No matter how good it is, your book will not sell itself. — Elinor Florence

Writing a novel is an intense and lonely business, but you have the reward at the end of a very direct dialogue between you and the reader. — Neil Cross

The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft. — David Hare

Songwriters might write cynical, world-wise lyrics and constantly talk about money, but most of us are downright naive when it comes to business. — Willie Nelson

No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing. — J.K. Rowling

I don't write songs for myself anymore. I only write songs on assignment. It's purely a business, but it is still so important to me emotionally. — Alan Menken

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

To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters. — Samuel Johnson

The business of writing a novel is a long, meandering road into the self, into the imagination. And it's a road the writer travels alone. — Lisa Unger

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

If prisons, freight trains, swamps, and gators don't get ya to write songs, man, y'ain't got no business writin' songs. — Ronnie Van Zant

Reading and writing were a dangerous business; they made you think. — Gemma Malley

That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections. — Tom Rachman

What's this business of being a writer. It's just putting one word after another. — Irving Thalberg

I was hooked on writing. I mean, where else can you get paid for sticking your nose into somebody else's business? — Bette Greene

Writing is a lonely business. — Sherman Alexie

Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be? — Anne Lamott

The purpose of writing inspirational notes is simply to build others up because there are too many people in the demolition business. — Norman Vincent Peale

The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius. — H.L. Mencken

I'm not the hands-on guy. I like writing the check, and I turn it over to the guys that make it happen, much like the way I ran my business. — Foster Friess

In the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another name for craft. — Joseph Brodsky

The problem with taxation is that authors can't write off whiskey as a business expense. — Bryan Way

I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business.
The day you die. — Yasunari Kawabata

I'm not in the speech making business. I'm not in the seminar business. I'm not in the writing book business. I'm in the changing lives business. — Zig Ziglar

To write about business one should be in business, just as in writing about Tasmania one should visit Tasmania. — James Cook

Writing can be a frightening, distressing business, and whatever kind of structure or buffer is available can help a lot. — Aimee Bender

If you can't write like New York, you have no business living in New York and making New York the locale of your stories. — James M. Cain

The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Writers Are Insane. For months we are lone wolves locked in our caves. Then overnight we become publicity hounds. It's a schizophrenic business. — Robert Mykle

Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even when he's there, he's not really there. — Paul Auster

Write. Enjoy writing. Then, and only then, worry about the business end of it. Start loving your hobby, and then you can't go too wrong. — Arthur Phillips