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Writing a biography is not a love affair. It's not a marriage. It's a job, it's a piece of work.
— Hermione Lee
What I tend to do is I try and get as much writing done ... I get as much writing done at home before I go into work.
— John O'Keefe
Doing what you love is a sacred life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Writing is a craft, being an author is work, and having readers and a following is a gift.
— Michael J. Kannengieser
The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.
— Jeffery Deaver
Writing is such a singular and lonely occupation. And it's interesting; all of the work that you create is so singular.
— James Avery
I enjoy writing the same way I enjoy doing standup. Part of the challenge is being creative and making it work no matter what the constraints.
— Greg Fitzsimmons
Sondheim is my god; I love the man. I learned a great deal about writing from his work, his lyrics, and his structure.
— Richard LaGravenese
I think it's good when people don't write good things about your work. I mean, what a great compliment it is to be called a charlatan.
— Julian Schnabel
The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.
— Arthur Miller
Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies.
— Christopher Darden
At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person's job.
— Michael Crichton
Songwriting is like working on a jigsaw puzzle, and it doesn't make any sense until you find that last piece. It has to make sense or it doesn't work.
— Chrissie Hynde
Here is a lesson to brand in fire across any young historian's mind: If you try to do too much, you will not do anything.
— Richard Marius
Acting is glamour but writing is hard work, so I'm going to be an actress.
— Jacqueline Susann
I think the hard work of writing is just how long a book is terrible before it's good."--Leigh Bardugo
— Leigh Bardugo
Writing is work, but it's also a compulsion, and once you get your characters on paper, you can't abandon them. You have to respond to them.
— Rosamunde Pilcher
A writer's work is never done, unless he or she has no readers.
— K. Sean Harris
Writing is not hard work, it is simply an obsession ...
— Hallie Burnett
This is just the present chapter of my life. How can I give up when God isn't finished writing my story yet?
— Deb Brammer
We can create transcending stories for readers and for us. Creativity is a double edge sword, which can kill the writer.
— Rossana Condoleo
My first love is writing and producing. So I sometimes put my own stuff off to work on other people's projects.
— Missy Elliott
There is an audience for everything; our job as writers is to do the work and provide readers with a choice.
— Elizabeth Hernandez
A writer judging his own work is like deceived husband - he is frequently the last person to appreciate the true state of affairs.
— John D. Voelker
I think I view myself primarily as a fiction writer. Poetry is more of a "hobby," a time of rest from the hard work of writing fiction.
— Yuriy Tarnawsky
It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing.
— James Schuyler
My work is more driven by the creative word. It's immersed in other writing and printed work, rather than drawn so much from life or past experience.
— Raymond Pettibon
Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
— E.B. White
The mind of an artist never sleeps, because dreaming is when they do their best work.
— Mark W. Boyer
Writing is difficult. It's a time commitment, it's labor and I'd have to get myself to sit down and actually do the work and outline.
— Busy Philipps
Destroying the planet is like stepping from a moving train and thinking it will all work out.
— Jason E. Hodges
The main thing about writing is ... writing. Sitting your butt down in the chair and doing the work.
— Ben Fountain
Writing is a solitary occupation.
— Bernard Cornwell
The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
— Nadine Gordimer
A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has its price-tag on.
— Marcel Proust
Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.
— J.G. Ballard
My day job is writing for television. So I've been on enough sets, and I know how things work.
— Tom Scharpling
When the work is the best work, it's more like being a secretary than it is a creative person, you just sort of take the stuff down.
— Stephen King
Writing is rewriting... If you fall in love with the vision you want of your work and not your words, the rewriting will become easier.
— Nora DeLoach
It is axiomatic with most writing people that there are no such things as perfect conditions for work.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
Besides, if you want to write something perfect, write a haiku. Anything longer is bound to have a few passages that don't work as well as they might.
— Philip Pullman
My work is writing, but my real work is being.
— William, Saroyan
It is so much hard work writing your first novel. You're not even sure that it is possible to do.
— Asa Larsson
If you don't think screenwriting is a work of art, good luck in your life without a soul.
— A.D. Posey
Turning the blog into a book was extremely difficult, a tremendous amount of sustained, hard work. Blogging is easy; writing a book is difficult.
— Kate Christensen
Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.
— Wislawa Szymborska
The hardest thing about being a writer is convincing your wife that lying on the sofa is work.
— John Hughes
Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
— Anne Enright
Writing is hard work; it's also the best job I've ever had.
— Raymond E. Feist
Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just work.
— Sinclair Lewis
Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.
— Dorothy Day
After you have finished a piece of work, the work is then none of your business. Go on and do something else.
— Natalie Goldberg
Caesar's double-bed is warmAs an unimportant clerk
Writes i do not like my work
On a pink official form. — W. H. Auden
I know writers for whom the act of writing is a necessary chore. They suffer to write great work. I am very lucky that for me writing is a delight.
— Denise Duhamel
The fear of a work becoming dated is one of the most effective tools for keeping people from writing political work.
— Tony Kushner
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
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
Why do I keep evading my work? Is it because I'm afraid of being confronted by my lack of abilities?
— Candace Bushnell
Every time I complete a major project I reward myself with two full days of just reading and coffee! I do justify that it is my work!
— Delia J. Colvin
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
Every time your work is read, you die several deaths for every word, and poetry is like being flayed alive.
— Mary Stewart
Writing, like living, is lonely work.
— Blanche Willis Howard
My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly.
— Anita Desai
I would say that writing, both the act of writing, and of course reading of other people's work is, for me, supreme joy.
— James Lipton
Writing is work and cooking is relaxing.
— Diane Mott Davidson
Writing is hard work.
— William Zinsser
The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime twittering - anon Twitter has raised writing to a new low.
— Samuel Goldwyn
Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?
— Ann Patchett
Writing novels is not an illness that need be recovered from. It is my work; it is what I do.
— Shannon Winslow
Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just as profound as the pyramids.
— James Turrell
What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work.
— Virginia Woolf
There is a great deal that either has to be given up or be taken away from you if you are going to succeed in writing a body of work.
— Susan Sontag
The more interesting the 9-to-5 work is, the more it takes away from my real work, which is writing.
— Judith Rossner
Writing is a legal way of avoiding work without actually stealing and one that doesn't take any talent or training
— Robert A. Heinlein
