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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

Writing is hard work. Attempting to write a decent story is friggin exhausting! — Veronica Purcell

Writing is easy. Writing well is hard work. — Amy Joy

Doing what you love is a sacred life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

The funny thing is, about the time I let go of any aspiration toward worldly success, that's about the time I started writing decent work. — Ben Fountain

Writing is a craft, being an author is work, and having readers and a following is a gift. — Michael J. Kannengieser

I've found the best way to revise your own work is to pretend that somebody else wrote it and then to rip the living shit out of it. — Don Roff

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

The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is the point. — Anne Lamott

We writers are a crazy group. I can't think of any other profession where the actual work is deep within, uncomfortable, and wanting out. — C.J. Heck

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

Good writing is more about graft and craft than inspiration and aspiration. — Johnny Rich

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

I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers. — A.S. Byatt

My first love is writing and producing. So I sometimes put my own stuff off to work on other people's projects. — Missy Elliott

Writing software is a very intense, very personal thing. You have to have time to work your way through it, to understand it. Then debug it. — Vint Cerf

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

Writing is easy, good writing is hard and excellent writing is hard work. — G.H. Guzik

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

What is a historian? Someone who doesn't write well enough to work on a daily. — Karl Kraus

If the stuff you're writing is not for yourself, it won't work. — Stephen King

The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on. — Ernest Hemingway,

Real work is completed in silence and strikes a chord in the minds of only a very few. — Carl Jung

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area. — Nadine Gordimer

Most of my work is done before we start shooting, preparation work, so my normal day begins when I start writing, it might even be the night before. — Tina Fey

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

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

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

Solitude and quiet are highly desirable, but the lack of them is no barrier to writing ... The will to work builds all the seclusion that one needs. — John Braine

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 warm
As 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 use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work. — Margaret Fuller

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

Writer's block is a phony, made up, BS excuse for not doing your work. — Jerry Seinfeld

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

Because I don't work with an outline, writing a story is like crossing a stream, now I'm on this rock, now I'm on this rock, now I'm on this rock. — Ann Beattie

Fun is when you're writing a song and you're trying a rough shot at a demo and ... it works. That's when it's fun. After that, it's work. — Tom Scholz

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

The writing for me is hard work and I always look forward to drawing the pictures. — Marc Brown

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

The best way to learn to write is to study the work of the men and women who are doing the kind of writing you want to do. — William Zinsser

Music is my work, writing songs is my work, touring is my work, going into the studio is my work. — Burning Spear