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No matter how much planning you do the story will always tell itself the way it wants to be told. — Stoo Goff

I never know, when I start writing a story, what's going to happen, or how it will all get sorted out. — Jacqueline Woodson

Everyone should write a book, if only to see
how much work goes into even the slight volume I send you. — Susan Wallace

Every story teaches me how to write it. Unfortunately, it doesn't teach me how to write the next one. — Eudora Welty

The question for writing then is this: how long are you willing to be unheard? — Peter Elbow

I don't really know how to do much else besides write. — Jerry Stahl

He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them. — F.L. Lucas

When I sit down to write a novel I do not at all know, and I do not very much care, how it is to end. — Anthony Trollope

I really love writing comedy. Writing romantic comedy is even nicer because you get to write about how insane we all act when we're falling in love. — Pearl Cleage

How to preside over your own internal disorder? Finding the "I" that can represent the pack of you is the first challenge of the memoirist. — Tracy Kidder

The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they'd word something or how they'd inflect it. — Dick Cavett

I don't know how to write a children's book. — Maurice Sendak

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

This is the city that taught me how to write all of these cool songs. Yeah, you guys definitely need a royalty. — Katy Perry

When I write a film, all I think about is where the thing ends and how to get the audience there. — Jason Reitman

The key to writing is something to be stolen. How else does one open the door to a house of thieves? — Anthony Marais

When Shonda Rhimes writes her autobiography, it should be called How to Get Away With Being an Angry Black Woman. — Alessandra Stanley

It's very simple. If you learn how to write well, to write with depth, cream will rise to the top. You'll get published. But, there is no secret. — Dennis Lehane

If I were a writer and not a singer in 10 years, I don't know how I'd feel about writing really personal songs and getting someone else to sing them. — Adele

When writing a book, don't think about who is going to see it. Write about how you feel in the moment. Don't let a good idea get away. — B.A. Gabrielle

Writing music is always really helpful for me. It always reveals to me how I am feeling. — Erika M. Anderson

Every so often, it's time to make a change with a showrunner; you evaluate the creative and how the show is run, how the writing staff works. — Robert Greenblatt

I think I've just gotten better at learning how to write a song. — Jonny Lang

Like most writers, I tend to find out what I feel on a subject by writing about it. It is how we interpret the world, how we make sense of it. — Robert Galbraith

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.

Love how editing makes you more confident with your book ...but also makes you want to set it on fire at the same time. — Kira Hawke

How to Write a Poem
Catch the air
around the butterfly. — Katerina Stoykova Klemer

How can you contrive to write so even? — Jane Austen

You don't need to know how a story ends, but how it begins. Start writing ... and the rest of the story will write itself. — Jason W. Blair

When One Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He marks, not that you won or lost, but how you played the game. — Grantland Rice

Oh, sweet cherry tree-
how lovely your blossoms are.
Spring brings joy to life. — A.K. White

How lucky is the man who, like Mozart and others, goes to the tavern of an evening and writes some fresh music. For he lives while he is creating. — Johannes Brahms

Humor writing requires a rhythm and timing, as well as some kind of connection to the reader, and I think that's how I tap into it. — Kristan Higgins

When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and don't really believe in. — Anne Carson

In a lot of ways, TV writing taught me how to be a good storyteller. I learned about dialogue, scenes, moving the plot forward. — Maria Semple

I told you; I am Arianna, the Siren, your Guardian, and how is a Guardian supposed to do her job if she is clueless about the Guardianee? — Erica Sehyun Song

Be as creative in your tactics as you are in your writing. Find what gets your engine going, no matter how peculiar it may seem to others. — Ralph Keyes

Blank pages are cruel
Pure torture in white or beige
But how else to start — A.A. Patawaran

No matter how many books I write, I will eventually get to fiction. That is where I'm going. — Neil Young

I like to have a hero a little underpowered. I mean, Spiderman is far cooler than Superman. How do you challenge Superman? — Patricia Briggs

Part of my mind is working on how to end the thing while I'm going on. You need at least two brains to write. — Lydia Davis

If something happens to me, you're going to hear about it. I only know how to write songs about my life. — Taylor Swift

Don't just read to read. Read to understand. — Jill Telford

What writing ROOM taught me was that I know exactly how to be the perfect mother, but I'm not willing to do it for more than ten minutes at a time. — Emma Donoghue

Writing is how I understand everything that happens. Writing is the only way I know to move on. — Delia Ephron

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 first step in becoming a global citizen is stripping away the preconceptions of how things should be in order to see things for what they are. — Colleen Mariotti

It's the story of how I went from being lionized for helping bring the snipers to justice to being vilified for writing a book about it. — Charles A. Moose

It often seems to me that the biggest single issue for a writer is how to stay buoyant enough to go on writing. How not to drown. — Janette Turner Hospital

How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives? — Jorge Luis Borges

If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn't write a single word, but that would be tragic. — Dejan Stojanovic

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

I am of the firm opinion that no one should tell writers what to do, or what to write, or how to write. — Hisham Matar

The mere habit of writing, of constantly keeping at it, of never giving up, ultimately teaches you how to write. — Gabriel Fielding

Your narrative may fail to grip if you haven't taken any care to find out how well or badly your audience member is faring (or feeling). — Christopher Hitchens

Forget how long the path to finishing your story. Address only what you have to write today. — Martha Alderson

I fix the cramped, lined pages
with my curious stare. How do you
come to exist? — Kiera Woodhull

You don't teach a person how to write as much as you teach that person how to survive the writing process. — Rowan Ricardo Phillips

When I'm writing, really writing, everything but breathing is an ignorable distraction. — Dennis R. Miller

You know how writers are ... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves. — Orson Scott Card

What I have written-and how I came to write it-is most powerfully what I am. — Hortense Calisher

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

My biggest kick in music -playing or writing- is when I have a problem. Without a problem to solve, how much interest do you take in anything? — Duke Ellington

That's what you need for your writing - to learn how to be present, learn how to be calm. So take that nap, do that meditation. — Sandra Cisneros

How many more investment bankers need to show up in court before people stop incriminating themselves in writing? — Penelope Trunk

If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate. — Taylor Swift

Every writer I know, when asked how to become a writer, responds with one word:Read. — Marilynne Robinson

how these words, wait to die
in the arms of all the poetry..
yet to be written. — Sanober Khan

People keep asking me ... How to instantly become a better writer? It's simple: Use "power words" and see for yourself. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

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

One day you will tell me how to change what I cannot yet describe without my words swelling HUGE, vowels vanishing, tears washing ink away. — Alasdair Gray

One of my fears is not writing. I don't know how to do anything else. — Paul Theroux

I remember in my early 20s when I felt I couldn't live past 30. I was learning how to write. I had a lot of hard work ahead of me. — Carl Sandburg

Writing a list of your goals with a deadline is vastly important. For how does a captain know where to go without an outlined map? — Justin Perry

I can't wait to be a mom and a wife, and explore that phase of life. And also see how it affects and influences my song writing and creativity. — Tristan Prettyman

I like how writing can take you off for a jaunt in your head and then set you back down in the chair where you've been all along. — Georgann Low

There are times when I can't believe how much ridiculous stuff happens to me and how brilliant it is to be in a position to write about it. — Carla H. Krueger

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

A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one. — Robert M. Hutchins

How many great gems were lost to thought
and not put down to pen.
You can but think of just a few
and then they're lost again. — L.F.Young

How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived. — Edward Abbey

If you're writing a story and YOU can't wait to see how it all pans out, then you are doing something right. — Giuseppe Bianco

To the folks asking how they can become a comics writer if Marvel doesn't accept submissions ... YOU WRITE COMICS!! — C.B. Cebulski

I feel better off doing what I know how to do. I feel a strong element of fictional style in travel writing anyway. Some call it creative nonfiction. — John Gimlette

No one can help you write. No one can teach you how to write. — Tony Gilroy

I've never taken any classes or had formal training in writing novels. At its most basic, I learned how to structure a novel. — Dennis Green

A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God. — Sidney Sheldon

If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings! — Percy Bysshe Shelley

To know whom to write for is to know how to write. — Virginia Woolf

We must learn, and we are gradually learning, how to write history with the help of archaeology. — Michael Rostovtzeff

How do you write when you're not miserable? The solution, of course, is to make yourself miserable about not writing. — Jerry Stahl

The only way to write a book, I'm fond of telling people, is to actually write a book. That's how you write a book. — Anne Enright

Any advice for how to be a successful author?"
"Yes. Don't be a woman. And be dead. And do both at the same time, if you can. — Michelle Franklin

No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have failed. — Madeleine L'Engle

If I knew how to write a poem, I wouldn't. — James Galvin

How do you learn to write? You sit your ass down in a chair, in front of a laptop, for ten years. Period. — Sean Beaudoin

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

It's easier to teach a poet how to read a balance sheet than it is to teach an accountant how to write. — Henry R. Luce

I'm working when I'm fighting with my wife. I constantly ask myself-how can I use this stuff to literary advantage. — Art Buchwald