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Literature has nothing to do with usefulness; the most useful place in any house is the toilet. — Theophile Gautier

I try to write from a really honest place when I write pop music and carry the song into a more deep and more symbolic visual — Lady G

I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time. — Bret Easton Ellis

I'm writing books. They're still a mix of fact and fiction and will continue to be. I think it's an interesting place to work. — James Frey

I wish every American explored the importance of novel writing, identity, honesty, character and place in fresh-ass ways. — Kiese Laymon

Writing is the passageway, the entrance, the exit, the dwelling place of the other in me. — Helene Cixous

A multivalent culture is an amazing place to be writing theatre. — Sarah Ruhl

Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it. — Joseph Joubert

Henceforth letter-writing had to take the place of all the affection that could not be lived. — Thornton Wilder

I type in one place, but I write all over the house. — Toni Morrison

Ek gret effect men write in place lite; Th'entente is al, and nat the lettres space. — Geoffrey Chaucer

Since I tend to write chronologically, the middle is always the place where the process is most taxing. — Robert Paul Weston

Charles Portis shows his mastery of place and the more complicated subtleties of time. — Donna Tartt

Writing takes place in an open playing field with limitless possibilities, most of them terrible. — Scott Gates

Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing. — BD Wong

There's a kind of acting that goes on in my head when I'm writing a character where I put myself in their place. — Jeffrey Eugenides

A writer's mind is a place where demons fight angels in disguise. — Ram Vignesh

The process of writing has always started for me when I put myself in a place where no one distracts me. — Joyce Maynard

For me, writing is not a search for explanations but a ramble in quest of what informs a place, a hunt for equivalents. — William Least Heat-Moon

I think we're actually talking about creative sleep. Like your bedroom, your writing room should be private, a place where you go to dream. — Stephen King

I've been writing jokes since I'm fifteen. Not out of happiness, but to go to a different place, because reality wasn't good to me. — Rodney Dangerfield

No iron can stab the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place. — Isaac Babel

Writing is a miracle. You can travel anywhere in the world, to any time and any place - and still be home in time to have dinner. — Mary Pope Osborne

Take that rage, put it on a page, take the page to the stage, blow the roof off the place. — The Script

When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it. — Tea Obreht

Take a great adventure to a place, learn the rich history and make your own observation about the place. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Don't try to follow any trends, just concentrate on writing great songs and knowing your instrument. All the other stuff will fall into place. — Steven Adler

We all hate moral ambiguity in some sense, and yet it is also absolutely necessary. In writing a story, it is the place where I begin. — Amy Tan

Writers live within their mind for their flesh and bones are stuck in a far worse place. — Jason E. Hodges

Time to turn some phrases and place them on these here pages. — Michelle C. Hillstrom

Good writing takes place at intersections, at what you might call knots, at places where the society is snarled or knotted up. — Margaret Atwood

Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not to write at all. — Madame De Stael

And every good artist knows that the gift comes from somewhere else, and it's there for a reason, and that's to make the world a better place. — James Lee Burke

I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from. — K'naan

I had thought that words were instruments of precision. Now I know that they devour the world, leaving nothing in its place. — Steven Millhauser

Where the writing takes place doesn't matter to a publisher, but it matters a great deal to the author. — Fennel Hudson

It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement. — Ray Bradbury

Screw the beaten path! Do your thing. Write the best story you can. the rest will fall into place. — Darynda Jones

In writing a weird story, I always try very carefully to achieve the right mood and atmosphere and place the emphasis where it belongs. — H.P. Lovecraft

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live. — Theodor Adorno

Where do storytellers find the wisdom to discover their own stories? From no place more mysterious than their own hearts. — Marion Dane Bauer

It's a fair-sized job to write a book that people can be bothered just to read; when they begin to steal copies, you are really getting some place. — Ruth Stout

It's not easy to writing thank-you notes for the stuff you didn't want in the first place. — Jeff Kinney

There is no greater hiding place for a secret than within the mind of a madman. — Alexander Ferrick

My way of finding a place in this world is to write one. — Barbara Kingsolver

Travel has a way of making the world a much smaller place. — Janna Graber

Being a maverick traveller, one would like to place oneself in the place of a local; just listen without judgement. — Mary Jane Walker

Because at this time, in this place, Chinese writing exhibits symptoms of a mental disorder. — Murong Xuecun

[Y]ou cannot mention everything in its proper place, you must choose, between the things not worth mentioning and those and those even less so. — Samuel Beckett

You pulled one story from your head, and another story popped up in its place, like tissues from a box. — Eileen Pollack

Becoming a person, of course, means finding your people, and your place among them — Jeffrey Eugenides

Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion — Dan Simmons

Writing novels allows the novelist to spend much of his time in a fictional world, which is really the only or at least the most bearable place to be. — Javier Marias

The beach is not a place to work; to read, write or to think. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Never be afraid to make a fool of yourself. The furthest out you can go is the best place to be. — Tom Robbins

The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering. — Tom Waits

Fiction should be a place of lollipops and escape. Real life is depressing enough
I, for one, don't want to read about make believe misery, too. — Nicole Christie

I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place — Gore Vidal

My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane. — Alain De Botton

Writing is almost a place of dreams for me, and I don't have to give up anything to do it. — Walter Mosley

Yeah I'm still writing. I've got about 14 tracks now. But we've been on tour so we haven't had time to get back to a rehearsal place. — Ville Valo

I knew my motivations for going to each place and what I was looking for. If I don't do that then I generally don't write about my travels. — Jessa Crispin

The more she tried to recapture the impulse that had set her wanting to put pen to paper, the less it seemed to have ever existed in the first place. — Charles De Lint

I just like being all over the place and writing whatever comes to mind. Having the tools? It's such a gift. — Regina Spektor

And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London. — Connie Willis

When you're writing, your mind has a place where the stories happen. With one word, you can get the idea of where you are. — Luis Negron

Writing a manual forces you to place your thoughts and ideas down on paper. — Tara VanDerveer

Feeling intimidated is a good sign. Writing from a place of safety produces stuff that is at best dull and at worst dishonest. — Lucy Prebble

The writing of a poem is, for me, in the first place, an almost total act of abandon leading to discovery leading to recognition. — Marvin Bell

I think when you first start out, you're writing books that are about your immediate place. — Jami Attenberg

If there weren't so many interesting conversations taking place inside my head, I might venture to speak out loud. — Richelle E. Goodrich

A word out of place or an interesting choice of vocabulary can spawn a whole character. — Sara Sheridan

A lot of writing takes place in the subconscious, and it's bound to have an effect. — George R R Martin

You write so beautifully
the inside of your mind must be a terrible place — Unknown

Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character. — Tabitha King

Writing is the place where I can be as bold and compassionate and wise as I choose. — Richard Bowes

Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute. — Rebecca Goldstein

I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place. — Raymond E. Feist

If you get the landscape right, the characters will step out of it, and they'll be in the right place. — Annie Proulx

I am writing a book and that takes third place of importance. — John Entwistle

Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable. — Rachel Cusk

I was always the observer, trying to understand what was going on. I was always the new kid. Writing became my safe place. — Lisa Unger

I think everything has its place. So if the ideas or the fluidity isn't coming in writing, maybe it's related to ingestions. — Saul Williams

Dialogue doesn't take place in a vacuum. Dialogue is contradictory, in that it can either speed up or slow down a passage. — Diana Gabaldon

If anything one writes isn't still being talked about ten years later then it wasn't worth writing in the first place. — Howard Hinton

A sense of place is very important in writing. — William Lashner

Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon. — Ann Patchett

The trick to writing an aphorism is to place a period at the point where you're inclined to say, in other words ... — Robert Breault

No one ever tells you that: that there's no method. Writing's a lawless place. — Naomi Wood

I realize that all I can place in the imperfect vessel of writing are imperfect memories and imperfect thoughts. — Haruki Murakami

Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place. — Margaret Haddix

I love writing fiction - you can take just what you want from a place, and leave the rest. — Kate Grenville

Writing is, among things, the place where we can help ourselves cope with the dark parts of our living — John Aubrey

All the things that live within you find their place, in character and story, once you tap into that other space that is the creative writing space. — Francesca Gregorini

If you write about a place, you need to be right about the place! — Laurence Bradbury

Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously. — Richard Powers

I always say that I'm a writer who writes more from place than race. — Katori Hall

Constant reading will pull you into a place - a mind-set, if you like the phrase - where you can write eagerly and without self-consciousness. — Stephen King

For me writing is that place where I can escape; it's where I let my thoughts run wild. — Ella Henderson

One of the things I try to do with my writing is try to evoke the spirit of the place. I think these things imprint on the landscape and the culture. — Sarah Hall