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Try to begin things you feel you can do. To begin is enough-there is a boldness in beginning. And in boldness lies genius and magic. — Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

Sometimes I have something stuck in my head and that directs the rhyme that I'm writing with. — Courtney Barnett

I have long discovered that geologists never read each other's works, and that the only object in writing a book is a proof of earnestness. — Charles Darwin

There are no rules in writing. There are useful principles. Throw them away when they're not useful. But always know what you're throwing away. — Will Shetterly

In writing and speaking, three is more satisfying than any other number. — Carmine Gallo

But I never want to get to the point where I write a safe song or one that represents my sense of a subject in order to appear civilized. — Suzanne Vega

I write every day ... I never get ideas unless I'm actually writing. Ideas I get in the shower don't do me any good. — Janet Fitch

The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them. — Paul Johnson

Expectation is the dirtiest word in a traveler's vocabulary. — John Early

My gift was in comedy. I found out I could make jokes. I could tell jokes. I could write them. So over the years, that's what I've done. — Woody Allen

He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by heart. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Writing is simply another means for truth to escape, besides crawling out the hole it's eaten in the author's belly. — Dianne Kozdrey Bunnell

I definitely fall in love quickly, and I'm very in love with being in love. But it is hard for me to write about love. — Melanie Martinez

You say grace before meals. I say grace before I dip the pen in the ink. — G.K. Chesterton

Writing Paranormal, is just another "walk in the dark! — Stefaunia Dhillon

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense. — Benjamin Franklin

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 have loved music since I was a little kid. I was always wanted to write the music I hear in my head and have it be shared with the world. — Jackson Harris

I knew I would be famous one day. That's because I lived in a very small town and nobody liked doing the same things I did, like writing. — Alice Munro

In retrospect Hank I don't know why I spent four years writing this book when I could have just made a hit sing-a-ma-jig album. — John Green

The last thing you want to do is write songs about being in a band. — Matt Berninger

I started writing stories in my spare time. — Ken Follett

You may very well ask what the goddess of love is doing in St. Andrews, writing trashy romances. Adapting. — Kelly Link

Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action. — Brendan Francis Brown

In the end, when you're writing a really good song, it strikes the right tone. — Craig Finn

Bear in mind that the novel
no matter how intimate, psychological, or subjective
is always an historical projection of its own time. — Samuel R. Delany

As Jane Austen might have put it: It is a truth universally acknowledged that young protagonists in search of adventure must ditch their parents. — Philip Pullman

When a boy writes off the world, it's done with sloppy misspelled words, if / a girl writes off the world it's done in cursive? — Sage Francis

You feel the call. That's the important thing. Now answer it as fully as you can. Take the risk to let all that is in you, out. Escape into the open. — Elizabeth Berg

I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write. — Karen Thompson Walker

Your character that you create in your writing not only represents who you are, but also represents a number of people who you've met along the way. — Grant Morrison

The further you go in writing the more alone you are. — Ernest Hemingway,

Writers live within their mind for their flesh and bones are stuck in a far worse place. — Jason E. Hodges

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings. — Carol Ann Duffy

A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out. — Francis Bacon

I spent a lot of time star-gazing, writing, and learning languages when the other kids were doing cooler things in Detroit. — Lizzo

New York is perfect. Just the way it is. In all its imperfection. — Christy Hall

My background is in improv and writing. — Paul Scheer

I've found in my own life that if my writing isn't going well, not much else will. It is the one constant, the key to everything else. — Sarah Dessen

The hope in literature is that we are allowed to be imperfect, to write of our imperfection, without being overly critiqued for being unlikeable. — Kate Zambreno

The strongest should come first in comedy because once a character is really established as funny everything he does is funny. — F Scott Fitzgerald

In writing scripts now, having made a film, I'm much more conscious of what it means to shoot and edit a movie, and that affects the writing. — Josh Radnor

Mind your words, dear writer for you are holding a delicate reader in them. — Maria Stoica

There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing. — Ernest Hemingway,

It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing. — Karl Ove Knausgaard

I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes. — Aharon Appelfeld

If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart. — Terry Brooks

The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions. — John Updike

Without Constant Reader, you are just a voice quacking in the void. — Stephen King

There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started drinking. — Charles Bukowski

The writing process was some of the most exciting and rewarding moments of my life. It felt a lot like being in a band. — Ethan Hawke

The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work. — Margaret Fuller

Talk and write in a way that encourages the mutual exchange of ideas and acts like a midwife to people birthing their own ideas. — Grace Lee Boggs

Writing is an exercise in sculpture, chipping away at the rock until you find the nose. — Stanley Elkin

I wrote a fair amount of poetry in college. It was really, really bad. I mean, bad. And that's how I found out - by doing it. — John McPhee

Copywriting is a design muse, it carves a beautiful masterpiece in an imaginative way. — Sharen Song

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

Writing in the first person helps to make clear the author's role in constructing rather than discovering the story/knowledge. — Gayle Letherby

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

I have always wanted to write in such a way that will make people think, Why, I've always thought that but never found the words for it. — Pamela Hansford Johnson

While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration. — Charles Stross

Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold. — Horace Walpole

I have two dogs myself and they are always around when I write, so they tend to creep in there. — Arthur Bradford

For me, there is urgency in fiction, even though writing is, in itself, an act against the corrosiveness of time. — Romesh Gunesekera

I've evolved in my writing to tell a more emotional story - my publisher, Random House, has urged that. — Alan Furst

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

My biggest lesson ... was to try and create narrators that were believable ... so the listener becomes really invested in the story or the song. — Kristian Bush

I don't believe in that country any longer. I'm not interested. I'm writing in the language, and I like the language. — Joseph Brodsky

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

I know you shouldn't spit in your own soup but I think most crime writing is like TV and doesn't make enormous demands on one's intellect. — Donna Leon

Whenever something good happens, write it down. Buy a special notebook ... and use it to list all the good in your life. — Peter McWilliams

Give me a paper and pen, so I can write about my life of sin. A couple of bottles of gin, in case I don't get in. — Tupac Shakur

No man, even though he be Shakespeare, can write perfectly when his web is woven of threads that have been spun in many lands. — William Butler Yeats

There's magic in the unknown; a brooding fertility in the unknowable that can work on the reader's imagination long after a book is finished. — Claire Wingfield

Being an author is to have a toe in the creative pool and a foot in the vat of commerce. — Fennel Hudson

Well, yes: people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them. — Hans Christian Andersen

I don't write songs apart from theatrical pieces. I'm not interested in writing songs qua songs. — Stephen Sondheim

You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism. — Warren Ellis

I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don't mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing. — William S. Burroughs

Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story. — Charlotte Eriksson

This is a little secret that all writers share: We have two lives; the one we live on Earth and the one we live in our books. — Chrys Fey

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish. — Trey Anastasio

his facetious grace in writing," and much else. — Bill Bryson

In the same way that Shakespeare was writing very much for his time, he was also unearthing observations that would last for generations beyond him. — Alexis Denisof

I love the process of creating a story that will resonate in my readers lives ~ either inspiring them, educating them, or entertaining them. — Kathryn Albright

I don't really write jokes. I wait for stuff to happen in life, and then I tell it on stage. — Kathleen Madigan

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books. — Tony Judt

I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write. — Ellen Glasgow

I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message. — Stephen King

For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit. — Philip Roth

All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs. — Antonin Artaud

People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard. — David Walliams

I associated excellence in writing with New York City. — Garth Risk Hallberg

Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon. — Ann Patchett

Keep being bold on the page, and in life, and people cannot ignore you forever. — Don Roff

I believe the best creative writing lessons live in the specifics. — Jeff VanderMeer

Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years. — T.K. Naliaka

The more PR buzzwords you include in your press release, the less likely I am to write you up — Ben Parr

To write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a flag to the top of a mast in a raging gale. — Virginia Woolf

After all this time I found that the novel is in fact punk rock. — Craig Ferguson