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Genius is the art of taking pains
— Claude C. Hopkins
There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.
— Terry Tempest Williams
Headline writing is an art form.
— Jennifer Lee
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
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
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 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.
The fear of Mortality is the base of Immortality
— Udayveer Singh
Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction:
Simply to participate. — Alan Moore
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
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
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
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
Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
— Joseph Conrad
Why is joy not considered a fit subject for an artist?
— Eugene Manlove Rhodes
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
but this is very different. — David Foster Wallace
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
Art is much more confined by materials than writing is.
— Molly Crabapple