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

The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A writer who writes more than he reads is an amateur. — Harlan Ellison

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

When you are writing a novel, you aren't making it up. The story is already there. You just have to find it. — Thomas Harris

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

Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life. — James Norman Hall

Traveling is my priority, because it drives the writing, so I teach around the travel, and sometimes the travel is the teaching. — Pam Houston

The story is always better than your ability to write it. — Robin McKinley

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

For a living I write stuff that I know is gonna sell to a studio and make a lot of money at the multiplex. — Robert Ben Garant

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

I don't think any man writing can worry about what the act of writing costs him, even though at times he is very aware of it. — Robert Creeley

Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before. — Alice Walker

Readership is highly dependent upon format and distribution as much as it is on content. — Sara Sheridan

To begin impatiently is the worst mistake a writer can make — Antony Beevor

Writing is a deeper sleep than death.
Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave,
I can't be dragged from my desk at night. — Franz Kafka

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

Writing... is ... brave. You are brave. — Patricia MacLachlan

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being concious of living. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

The only advice anybody can give is, if you wanna be a writer, keep writing. And read all you can, read everything. — Stan Lee

Indeed, if "biology is chemistry with history," as somebody has said, then nature writing is biology with love. — Edward Hoagland

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. — E.L. Doctorow

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

A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim. — Plato

One of the hardest parts of writing is writing from the gut or the heart or something like that rather than intellectually. — George R R Martin

I wanted to write and think. Activism is a displacing kind of passion. — Randall Robinson

I write songs to handle emotional pain. I guess what they say is true: with every heartache comes a great song. I also pray and have great friends. — Matt Sorum

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

Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. — John Steinbeck

The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest. — Jasper Fforde

Working 9 to 5 is structure. But tying lines together all hours of day is structure at its best performing magic. — C.C. Wyatt

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

I find that writing is the silver lining of life, allowing me to transform vexing experiences into fresh story ideas...after much vexed venting. — Laura Quinn

I don't know who a character is till I look into their eyes. — Luke Taylor

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one. — Salman Rushdie

No it is not easy to write. It is as hard as breaking rocks. Sparks and splinters fly like shattered steel. — Clarice Lispector

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

There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting. — Robert Graves

I love stand-up, but the process of writing is a little more lonely. I want to keep doing both, though. — Jack Whitehall

A literary agent is nothing but a cheap salesman (or woman); while a writer is a cheap salesman (or woman) who also has to actually write the books. — John Hodgman

The only thing better than a well-read book is a well-read book only read by yourself. — S.A. Tawks

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

It is very important to be reading as well as writing. A doctor is not going to ignore new surgery practices. — Brandon Sanderson

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

For writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy, freedom. — Joyce Carol Oates

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

Find your best time of the day for writing and write. Don't let anything else interfere. Afterwards it won't matter to you that the kitchen is a mess. — Esther Freud

Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day. — William Allingham

Writing is a compulsion — Airam

Writing is the beast unto itself. — Omar Epps

Maybe the key to finding the perfect song is simply rewriting the lyrics. — Kandi Steiner

A doctorate study is the passion for extensive research, reading, thinking and writing. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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

There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar. — Amy Bloom

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

Rejection is no badge of honour. — Johnny Rich

The purpose of paragraphing is to give the reader a rest. The writer is saying ... : Have you got that? If so, I'll go to the next point. — Henry Watson Fowler

The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it. — Gabrielle Roy

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

I love writing, but I have that E. E. Cummings idea that as long as you stay inside the rules of your own world, it doesn't matter what it is. — Pete Wentz

Writing is a prayer. — Franz Kafka

It is not a crime to commit First Degree Writing — Temple Emmet Williams

Writing is like shadow boxing. Editing is when the shadows fight back. — Adam Copeland

The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me. — John Irving

Writing is a struggle no matter what the genre. — Susan Wiggs

I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view. — Ted Dekker

The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience. — Arthur Schopenhauer

When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of. — Cesare Pavese

All of fiction is truthful. What you create is your own truth and no one can take that away or change it. — Walter Dean Myers

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

Sometimes it is just about taking the first step, only then can greatness find us. — Colleen Mariotti

My style of lyric-writing is very specific and has a lot of details, and I think people react most to that. — Craig Finn

It is almost possible to measure a writer's skill by the dexterity with which he repeats, and yet avoids monotony. — George G. Williams

Focus on action! Go on! Do it! Call them! Write it! Say it! Grab it! Who knows what 'awesome stuff' might happen? Yes - Action is the key! — David Ryan

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do. — Elvis Costello

To withhold words is power. But to share our words with others, openly and honestly, is also power. — Terry Tempest Williams

Writers have to be tenacious to the point of being pathological. Rejection and criticism is assured. — Mary Lawrence

Genetic code is a divine writing. — Toba Beta

I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person. — Virginia Woolf

He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written. — George Orwell

The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more. — Sara Sheridan

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

Writing is an art. A document is your canvas, words are your paint, and a keyboard is your paintbrush. — Lizzy Grimm

It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off. — Mark Twain

The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done. — Flannery O'Connor

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

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

Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted. — Jules Renard

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

The writings of leading ID proponents reveal that the designer postulated by their argument is the God of Christianity. — John E. Jones III

Only half the story is true. The rest is necessary. — John Yau

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

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

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach

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

To me, writing is like learning to ride a bike. At first you have your training wheels on but before you know it, you have graduated to a ten speed!! — Lorine S. Thomas