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With me, writing is 60% imagination, 30% people you know and 10% you don't know where it comes from.
— Terrence McNally
For me, the word "writing" is the exact opposite of the word "waiting". Instead of waiting, there is writing.
— Roberto Bolano
I write about whatever is timely - whatever is happening at the time for me - with what the expressive feeling is.
— Sakyong Mipham
This is a cliche, but in fiction, I feel it is easier for me to get to some sort of truth, some kind of more honest writing.
— Miriam Toews
Yes there is a meaning; at least for me, there is one thing that matters - to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
Writing is my life,a God given gift; no one on this planet can separate me from it.
— Euginia Herlihy
I didn't think one day something would happen that would bring me back to Wall Street to write what is essentially a sequel.
— Michael Lewis
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
Really I'm just an actor. The only difference between me and those cats in Hollywood is that I write my own script.
— Jimi Hendrix
A piece of writing is never good," he told me. "There is simply a moment when it is less bad than before.
— Joel Dicker
Writing is not a choice for me, it is a calling.
— Brenda B. Taylor
I write a thousand words a day. Nothing will stop me, I mean nothing, until the book is finished. I'm disciplined in spite of myself.
— Joseph Wambaugh
To me, writing is a considered act. It's something which is a great labor of thought and consideration.
— Paul Theroux
I've realized the most effective way to write, for me, is knowing what to throw away.
— Youth Lagoon
For me, language is something that I've always loved. When I read, that's what I look for. When I write, that's what I strive for.
— Patrick Rothfuss
Stationery is addictive. I get mine made in Paris at Benetton, and writing on it gives me a strange thrill.
— Graydon Carter
Writing is like a mental masturbation to me.
— Lina K. Lapina
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
— Truman Capote
Words fascinate me. They always have. For me, browsing in a dictionary is like being turned loose in a bank.
— Eddie Cantor
Writing is a legitimate way, an important way, to participate in the empowerment of the community that names me.
— Toni Cade Bambara
For me, writing is just processing.
— Mary Lambert
For me writing is foremost a mode of thinking and when it works well, an act of discovery
— Joseph Epstein
There is so much about the process of writing that is mysterious to me, but this one thing I've found to be true: writing begets writing.
— Dorianne Laux
There are so many reasons why, for me, writing is superior to acting. One of them is anonymity. Writers can live relatively normal lives.
— Evangeline Lilly
Honesty is easier when you have no face and no real name. And honesty, for me, is very easy on paper.
— Katherine Reay
Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always surprises me.
— Bret Easton Ellis
Structure is, for me, the most fun challenge about writing novels.
— Heidi Julavits
It seems to me that the great difficulty of writing is to make the language of the educated mind express our confused ideas,
— Helen Keller
Painting is like breathing to me. It's what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting, writing or making a movie.
— Julian Schnabel
For me, there is urgency in fiction, even though writing is, in itself, an act against the corrosiveness of time.
— Romesh Gunesekera
I have brothers and was a tomboy, if that's still a designation. It wasn't a stretch for me to think and write as a 13-year-old boy - it is freeing.
— Louise Erdrich
Writing gave me a second chance - not to change things, but to savor them. That is a great gift.
— Doris McCarthy
The mark of writing on me is so indelible, a tattoo would be redundant.
— Marie-Helene Bertino
Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.
— Graham Swift
Writing a main character is very important to me. Because each time I create one, it feels like another piece of me in a different world.
— B.A. Gabrielle
For me, at least, fiction is the only way i can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true.
— John Green
A vacation for me is when I'm home and I'm writing.
— Mary Pope Osborne
For me writing is like breathing. I could not live without breathing and I could not live without writing.
— Pablo Neruda
Humor writing is something that comes naturally to me.
— Kristan Higgins
So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.
— Glen Hirshberg
Writing is a very calming thing for me.
— Carrie Fisher
Writing to me is a voyage, an odyssey, a discovery, because I'm never certain of precisely what I will find.
— Gabriel Fielding
Seeing your own name on the book cover is like hearing your book saying, Hi. Thanks for writing me!
— Alvi Syahrin
Writing is also my cat. Writing lets me face it.
— Charles Bukowski
Don't ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don't pay any attention to me when my job is at stake.
— Christopher Dodd
You have a touch in letter writing that is beyond me. Something unexpected, like coming round a corner in a rose garden and finding it still daylight.
— Virginia Woolf
Writing is like a noble gas, it expands to fit the container it is placed in. If you give me until Thursday, I'll procrastinate until it's due.
— Guy Anthony De Marco
I was writing of something I did not know about, and it seems to me that in a so-called writer this is criminal.
— John Steinbeck
When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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
Writing is a lot of fun for me; that's not to say it's easy, but I really do enjoy it.
— Donald Driver
Languages for me have a secret venom that every so often foams up and for which there is no antidote.
— Elena Ferrante
I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book.
— Jeffrey Archer
Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could havemade me do it, or prevented me from doing it. — J.K. Rowling
I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.
— Lisa Marie Presley
Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. For me, this theme as always been revolt.
— Alberto Moravia
For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to.
— Rachel Joyce
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 is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies.
— Christopher Darden
Writing is the only thing that makes me feel alive.
— Mary Sage Nguyen
Writing plays for me is often an act of looking at basement-level fears in terms of where they come from.
— Stephen Karam
I sometimes need to write things which I cannot completely control but which therefore prove that what is in me is stronger than I am.
— Albert Camus
Writing is my passion and burns in me like a fire. I'm always writing and honing my skills to feed the flames.
— Gabriela M. Sanchez
When I am trying to write I turn on music so I can hear what is keeping me from hearing.
— James Richardson
What's my favorite part that I've written? That's like asking me to choose which of my kids is least ugly!
— Matthew Catania
The highest privilege of being a writer is being able to say, 'open your mind to me and I'll take you to another world.
— Alexei Maxim Russell
Writing 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human.
— Dar Williams
To me, a book is a book, an electronic device is not, and love of books was the reason I started writing.
— Elmore Leonard
To me to write well is to battle stereotypes. To write well is to create three-dimensional characters that seem human.
— David Henry Hwang
I remember writing 'All I Want Is You' and hoping it would get me out of trouble. I haven't stopped writing songs or getting into trouble since.
— Cheyenne Kimball
For me, writing is like being taken on a walk by a footnote: It's amazing where you end up.
— Ben Schott
Other writers definitely influence my writing. What encourages me and inspires me is when I read a good book. It makes me want to be a better writer.
— Kimberly Willis Holt
I smoke cigarettes when I write, which is disgusting, but it really helps me.
— Christopher Bollen
