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I'm thrilled to be in sci-fi because they write the women very strong, and you don't often get that on television. — Laura Vandervoort

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies. — Ray Bradbury

I really do think with my pen, because my head often knows nothing about what my hand is writing. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

I started writing poetry and philosophy when I was 17 years old and my mind so was wild. Now I'm 56 and I often want to write like a child. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Morrissey writes wonderful song titles, but sadly he often forgets to write the song. — Elvis Costello

The fate of a song is often established in the first 15 minutes of writing. — Jens Lekman

Writing is so difficult that I often feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter. — Jessamyn West

Word by word, the language of women so often begins with a whisper. — Terry Tempest Williams

I often fear to talk so occasionally I express my opinions and my love in writing. — Debasish Mridha

You have to simply love writing, and you have to remind yourself often that you love it. — Susan Orlean

Mohr was one of the most talented people on the staff of Time, in print as well as in person - the two are often different. — David Halberstam

Very often human beings don't become available for the purposes of art until they have shaken off some of their dogged, self-preserving sanity. — Christopher Morley

I've been writing about Vermont independence for nearly ten years ... and, more often than not, it was for an audience of one. — Thomas Naylor

I've written for the waste basket so often that we've become friends. He writes too, but it's mostly garbage. — Ryan Lilly

It's not so much that I write well, I just don't write badly very often and that passes for good on television. — Andy Rooney

I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck. — Robert Sheckley

And I am wrong more often than I am writing. And even then, I am often wrong. — Andrea Gibson

Very often the characters people respond best to have little parts of reality they can relate to. — Sara Sheridan

Every so often, it's time to make a change with a showrunner; you evaluate the creative and how the show is run, how the writing staff works. — Robert Greenblatt

I think that literature quite often emerges from areas where there has been a lack of articulation, like women's writing. — Edna Longley

I feel often very close to the ecstasy and anguish which lie at the very heart of poetry - I am writing a lot. — May Sarton

A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well. — Baron De Montesquieu

What you don't write is often more important than what you do — Ernest Hemingway,

Writers quite often starve. And I'm mainly just writing critical prose and poetry, that's a formula for starvation. — Clive James

When we are in love, we are convinced nobody else will do. But as time goes, others do do, and often do do, much much better. — Coco J. Ginger

When I'm writing, those ideas are seldom inspired by music itself. I won't often listen to an artist and come up with an idea. — St. Lucia

Often you cannot wait for inspiration - it needs to be sought out. — Dean F. Wilson

I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do. — Tom Stoppard

There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. I wake early, often at 5 o'clock, and start writing at once. — James Joyce

I often think that the prime directive for me as a teacher of writing is akin to that for a physician, which is this: do no harm. — Chang-rae Lee

For me, writing has always felt like praying, even when I wasn't writing prayers, as I was often enough. You feel that you are with someone. — Marilynne Robinson

Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it. — Don Roff

The hardest things to write are often the best things to read. And the most deserving to be written. — David Alejandro Fearnhead

Westerns have often been considered the ugly stepchild of genre writing... — Johnny D. Boggs

Often when I write poetry I don't quite know what I'm saying myself. I mean, I can't restate the poem. The meaning of the poem is the poem. — Pattiann Rogers

Introverts often prefer writing to speaking, because writing uses a different neurological pathway in the brain than speaking does. — Adam S. McHugh

Writing has often been accompanied by terror, silences, and then wild bursts of private laughter that suddenly make all the dread seem worthwhile. — Erica Jong

It often seems to me that the biggest single issue for a writer is how to stay buoyant enough to go on writing. How not to drown. — Janette Turner Hospital

Inspiration does not always precede the act of writing; it often follows it. — Madeleine L'Engle

I often find that I rock back and forth with a beat in my head constantly. If i stop rocking, it usually means I've hit a snag in my writing. — Mitch Albom

The problem with being an author in this modern world is such: computers break often; books don't — Emma Iadanza

I am often asked why I write, and I don't know really
I just want to. — John Ashbery

Good writing is often about letting go of fear and affectation. — Stephen King

Words often outlive the people who create them. — Amy Neftzger

I don't type [when I write] because ... I often have the feeling that everything flows directly from my right hand. — Anne Tyler

Once you research an idea, you begin to develop a perspective. Writing about anything in public, often in real time, has helped fashion my views. — Barry Ritholtz

It isn't often that a writer of superlative skills knows enough about flying to write well about it. — Samuel Hynes

Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing and drawing at an early age. — Gunter Grass

I read my books to writing workshops and friends, and I'm often focussed just on keeping them entertained. I never think about marketing at all. — Karen Joy Fowler

Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in. — Kurt Loder

Writing plays for me is often an act of looking at basement-level fears in terms of where they come from. — Stephen Karam

When writing sex scenes, there is often no pleasing anyone, except perhaps the writer herself. — Lynn Coady

There is a ruthlessness to the creative act. It often involves a betrayal of the status quo. — Alan Watt

Often writing is like a struggle to get back to a kind of belated, quite impure virginity. — Harold Brodkey

Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid. — Charles Churchill

Often in writing programs, articulation and clarity are more important than what you actually say. — Etgar Keret

I relish the time I have when there are no interruptions. Most often the best time for writing is late at night. — Franny Armstrong

I write to create red in a world that often appears black and white. — Terry Tempest Williams

Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion. — William Strunk Jr.

An author's strong belief and enthusiasm will affect the writing of the book and often the publisher's commitment to it. — Sterling Lord

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

My life often feels like a whirling dervish of kids, writing, speaking, and pastoral ministry. — Kevin DeYoung

Writers are often given the gift of being spectacularly unhappy, so that they can record the full depth of feeling. — Grace Bridges

I tend not to write on guitar very often. I tend to start off with keyboards. — Brian May

Languages for me have a secret venom that every so often foams up and for which there is no antidote. — Elena Ferrante

Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence. — Samuel Johnson

I think we often write because we feel a loneliness, and people read for the same reason, and then they come away feeling a little less lonely. — Amy Tan

Saepa stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint scripturas. (Turn the stylus [to erase] often if you would write something worthy of being reread.) — Horace

Often I have the impression that I am writing on paper that is already browning in the licks of the flames. — Ernst Junger

Publishers often push women in a subtle way to focus on fantasy and paranormal writing. — Annalee Newitz

There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white. — Rebecca Solnit

The act of self-expression - through writing a journal or letters - often enables a survivor to distance himself from his fears. — Nathaniel Philbrick

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence. — Samuel Butler

Writers are often the worst judges of what they have written. — Stephen King

I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious. — Criss Jami

Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature. — Andre Gide

I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write. — Ellen Glasgow

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego. — John Cheever

Names that tell stories have been worth millions of dollars. So a great deal of research often proceeds the selection of a name — Claude C. Hopkins

I often think of random melodies. And I pretty much hear in my head what I want to do with the orchestra as I'm writing on the piano. — Andrew Lloyd Webber

Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Good or bad, words have an impact on each of us. As a writer, I can only hope that the effects my words have on others are more often good than bad. — Jessica Lave

Reports are more a medium of self-discipline than a way to communicate information. Writing the report is important; reading it often is not. — Andrew S. Grove

I don't write with an outline. I don't often know what I'm going to do as I'm writing. And I do everything by feel and by instinct. — James Frey

I think I'm able to do so much because writing is what I love to do. So, often when I have free time, I choose to write and edit. — Lauren Oliver

I don't listen to music when I'm writing, but I often do when I'm reworking, editing or when I need to relax. — Joanne Harris

Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked. — Matt Groening

Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas. — Arnold Schoenberg

All the best writers take risks, offend people often and say fuck you to the critics. — Carla H. Krueger

TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air. — Charles Kuralt

The most beautiful things don't always make you happy - often they make you weep ... — John Geddes

Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited. — Steve Earle

Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost. — Thomas Bernhard

I suppose most crime writing is urban. There's not a lot ... certainly not in Australia, people don't often set books in the countryside. — Peter Temple

My writing often contains souvenirs of the day - a song I heard, a bird I saw - which I then put into the novel. — Amy Tan

I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do. — Zadie Smith

A life spent writing has taught me to be wary of words. Those that seem clearest are often the most treacherous. — Amin Maalouf

It is a curiosity of writing about angels that, very often, one turns out to be writing about men. — Donald Barthelme

They listen more than they talk, think before they speak, and often feel as if they express themselves better in writing than in conversation. — Susan Cain

Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in weak short stories or novels. — Ben Lerner