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Genius is the art of taking pains — Claude C. Hopkins

sometimes i am not sure.
if i am
writing the poem
or the poem
is writing me. — Sanober Khan

There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private. — Terry Tempest Williams

In writing, there is art. And in art there is craft ... — Susi Moore

Headline writing is an art form. — Jennifer Lee

The world before us is a postcard, and I imagine the story we are writing on it. — Mary E. Pearson

Ursula K. Le Guin urges authors to remember why they do what they do. Her argument is that writing is an form of art rather than a commodity. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough. — David Bowie

If we don't value the people who inspire us (and money is one mark of that) then what kind of culture are we building? — Sara Sheridan

You do violence with your words if you force them - art is given - the words received, moment by moment from unseen hands - call it a Muse ... — John Geddes

A novel is no different than graffiti in a bathroom stall, it's just more pretentious. — Christy Leigh Stewart

The dirty secret of art is you don't have to show people your bad writing. That's what we have the delete key for. — Robert McKee

Writing is a simple but elusive art," he said. "To write is to describe. Describe accurately and respectfully. And perhaps passionately. — Josh Farrar

Writing is the one art form that really should allow you to hang yourself. — Peter Sotos

Art is craft, not inspiration. — Stephen Sondheim

To me Art (poetry) is a continuous and continuing process and that when a man fails to write good poetry he fails to live fully or well. — Charles Bukowski

The best kind of writing is that which comes from the authors soul. — Ndiritu Wahome

The most important thing about writing a book is having book parties. — Art Buchwald

The whole world is like an opened candy jar, and we're plunging in for the best treats — Vicki Alayne Bradley

Creativity is the brain's invisible muscle -- that when used and excercised routinely -- becomes better and stronger. — Ashley Ormon

The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair. — Mary Heaton Vorse

The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature. — C.S. Lewis

Writing is a form of art. Do not use New Times Roman or Arial because it's boring and hackneyed. — Natalya Vorobyova

There are times when quantity is at least as important as quality in learning an art. — Lawrence Watt-Evans

Writing, like any art, is a continuing process of discovering the infinite possibilities of Life. — Hubert Selby Jr.

Trying to live up to yourself is the most trying thing. — Ren Garcia

The fear of Mortality is the base of Immortality — Udayveer Singh

Writing is the process of making my soul tangible on paper. — Me

Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction:
Simply to participate. — Alan Moore

It is quite beneath the dignity of a person holding a Bachelor of Arts degree to engage in such a vulgar occupation as the writing of novels. — Fukuzawa Yukichi

Art, in a sense, is life brought to a standstill, rescued from time. The secret of making it is simple: discard everything that is good enough. — James Salter

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

Since fat crayons, I write and display chaos. My plan is damage. — Louis Eric Barrier

Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art. — Walter Darby Bannard

Creating anything that never existed before is not sanity. — Kamal Ravikant

Writing reminds you that you're never alone. Writing and reading is to be optimistic. — Richard Flanagan

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar. — Kami Garcia

The writing of headline is one of the great journalistic arts. They either conceal or reveal am interest — Claude C. Hopkins

The art of fiction is freedom of will for your characters. — Cynthia Ozick

Writing is possibly an art, but crime writing is definitely a craft. — Ashwin Sanghi

Literature is painting, architecture, and music. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Writing is the Art, re-writing the craft. — O'Brien Browne

But real life is not art. — Eleanor Cameron

The divine art is the story. — Isak Dinesen

Storytelling is the art of unfolding knowledge in a way that makes each piece contribute to a larger truth. — Philip Gerard

In other words, if your boy is a poet, horse manure can only mean flowers to him; which is, of course, what horse manure has always been about. — Ray Bradbury

It is my entire visual art practice: I eat, sleep, think, write about and do drawing. — Deanna Petherbridge

All the traumas I went through separating art from writing don't exist anymore. That's why I love being in rock 'n' roll. It's a whole life thing. — Patti Smith

Mine is not an obedient writing. I think that literature as any art has to be irreverent. — Reinaldo Arenas

First thought is best in Art, second in other matters. — William Blake

A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has its price-tag on. — Marcel Proust

The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness. — John Steinbeck

The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism. — Simon Schama

Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art. — Isabel Allende

Writing is an art and a skill that can be developed — Bernard Kelvin Clive

Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does. — Anne Roiphe

That's how it is with art. Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning are incapable of such writing. — Haruki Murakami

In the future, as in the present, as in the past, black people will build many new worlds.
This is true. I will make it so. And you will help me. — N.K. Jemisin

The perfect song neither ends nor begins. It is always playing. Remember to stop and listen. — Stella Mowen

Try to be someone upon whom nothing is lost! — Henry James

I deal with emotional pain through therapy, writing, therapy in music. I think emotional pain is best dealt with when you use art to express it. — Naturi Naughton

To grow in craft is to increase the bredth of what I can do, but art is the depth, the passion, the desire, the courage to be myself and myself alone. — Pat Schneider

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

Drawing and painting is like a quickie in bed. Were as novel writing is a long term relationship, much more fulling. — Tara Dobbs

Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil. — Edward Dahlberg

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos ... to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream. — John Cheever

A film that is a true work of art transcends theatre and heartwarmingly changes lives. — A.D. Posey

If you don't think screenwriting is a work of art, good luck in your life without a soul. — A.D. Posey

Programming is the art of writing essays in crystal clear prose and making them executable — Per Brinch Hansen

Art is too often discounted as a secondary priority. The writer is necessary to society. — Kayla Rae Whitaker

Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified. — Maxwell Perkins

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing. — Isaac D'Israeli

Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off. — Joseph Conrad

Fresh, solid ideas feel like gifts to writers, therefore every morning is Christmas. — Criss Jami

Why is joy not considered a fit subject for an artist? — Eugene Manlove Rhodes

Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality. — John Gardner

Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, but because it wishes to be art. — Donald Barthelme

The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow. — Kurt Vonnegut

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. — Ray Bradbury

writing is a craft, not an art, and that the man who runs away from his craft because he lacks inspiration is fooling himself. — William Zinsser

What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes. — Thomas Mann

The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture. — Louis L'Amour

When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is. — Walter Darby Bannard

Sometimes writing a single line is enough to save your own heart. — Clarice Lispector

Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from something that happens in my head and my heart. — E.L. Konigsburg

We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies
but this is very different. — David Foster Wallace

That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time. — Oscar Wilde

My writing is a wild mustang - more thunderous than a lightning storm -and all my skill which I call art, is devoted to simply staying on ... — John Geddes

The art of the word is painting + architecture + music. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

The great art of writing is knowing when to stop. — Josh Billings

Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato. — George Berkeley

Travel is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with existence or the exotic. It is almost always an inner experience. — Paul Theroux

Art is everywhere. — A.D. Posey

The art of writing is mysterious, the opinions we hold are ephemeral ... — Jorge Luis Borges

I think all writing about art is in some way dancing to architecture. It's all about similitude, being analogous, metaphorical, adjectival, etc. — Rob Chapman

True writing is not an art or science but it's an anthem to preach own soul — Kunal Jajal

Art is much more confined by materials than writing is. — Molly Crabapple

I always thought writing was the foundation and the basis for journalism in the same way being able to draw is the foundation for art. — Bob Schieffer

Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one. — Enid Blyton