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Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves, is communicate. — Raymond Carver

Writing mysteries lets me get away with murder. I think 'the mystery' may be the greatest form for social criticism, simply because it is pedestrian. — Gregory McDonald

Does any (MFA) program really improve anybody, as much as simply identifying them? And, after identifying them, not ruining them? — Chang-rae Lee

Writing is simply another means for truth to escape, besides crawling out the hole it's eaten in the author's belly. — Dianne Kozdrey Bunnell

For the writer under Actually Existing Socialism describing sex is a simple matter: he simply does not do it (the describing, I mean, not the sex). — Philip Sington

Simply put: writing is rewriting. — Ronald Dane

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

It's okay, Ms Rainn, you were simply lost in your imagination. — S.A. Tawks

Writing is a passion, to write you simply have to just let it flow and get on with it! — Mark Powell

No one is better than anyone else. Some just simply don't fulfil their potential of being the best they possibly can. — S.A. Tawks

Artists are perceptive, but they choose to write songs or make movies or paint pictures rather than simply keeping private diaries. — Jon Pareles

I am simply not interested, at this point, in creating narrative scenes between characters. — Lydia Davis

A piece of writing is never good," he told me. "There is simply a moment when it is less bad than before. — Joel Dicker

Jed Diamond is, quite simply, one of the wisest men writing today on the topic of male emotional and physical health. — Michael Gurian

Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think. — Elbert Hubbard

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted. — Anita Brookner

The purpose of writing inspirational notes is simply to build others up because there are too many people in the demolition business. — Norman Vincent Peale

Cynics are simply thwarted romantics. — William Goldman

I think that simply nudging yourself into unfamiliar settings - physical or emotional - can produce surprising results on the writing front. — Ralph Keyes

Characters who simply have goals opposed by others do not create the effects of a story. — Bill Johnson

The comforts come from my movie and television writing. It is unusual to live this well simply from books. — Anatoly Rybakov

My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain. — Oscar Wilde

As for style of writing, if one has anything to say, it drops from him simply and directly, as a stone falls to the ground. — Henry David Thoreau

I'm merely dying to be remembered for simply writing about my living memories — Michael Biondi

When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there. — Piers Anthony

I think poor poetry writing skills are excused when you're simply trying to flush out emotions. — Katie Kiesler

I simply get up in the morning and go to work, and I read at night. Like Abe Lincoln. - Saul Bellow — Mason Currey

And though death is howling at our backs and life is roaring at our faces, we can just begin to write, simply begin to write what we have to say. — Natalie Goldberg

Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles. — Shannon Hale

Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say. — Beryl Bainbridge

If you want to write, you write. Talent is simply not enough. — Jane Yolen

Writing at its best is simply taking dictation from your soul. — Catherine Carrigan

It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it. — Thomas Pynchon

Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them. — John Steinbeck

To write simply is as difficult as to be good. — W. Somerset Maugham

There was no "decision" per se to re-position myself. I simply decided that I wanted to write a book that would help people influence others. — Guy Kawasaki

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time ... The wait is simply too long. — Leonard Bernstein

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov

I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words. — Craig Claiborne

Maybe the key to finding the perfect song is simply rewriting the lyrics. — Kandi Steiner

If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction. — Salman Rushdie

The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply because major poets write a lot. — W. H. Auden

Writing has become my great joy - I simply love it. — Dawn French

One does not travel, any more than one falls in love, to collect material. It is simply part of one's life ... — Evelyn Waugh

The major newspapers simply stopped writing about me, and my voice could no longer be heard on radio or television. — Galina Vishnevskaya

Many poets ... write as if they had been decerebrated, and not simply lobotomized, as a cure for their melancholia. — Randall Jarrell

Education is not simply to learn to read and write. It's emancipation. It makes you free. — Ziauddin Yousafzai

Much of songwriting is simply a mystery. — Paul Simon

I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion. — Kate Morton

At this stage, my chief professional goal is simply to keep on writing and making a living at it. — Fred Saberhagen

You do not need to be writing or painting or sculpting in order to be creative. You must simply create. — David Levithan

My writing is a wild mustang - more thunderous than a lightning storm -and all my skill which I call art, is devoted to simply staying on ... — John Geddes

Writing is simply something you must do. It's rather like virtue in that it is its own reward. — Harper Lee

Writing across genres has made me more prolific. When one is fighting me or simply not cutting it, I turn to another. — Julianna Baggott

When, I want to know, do writers get to simply live their boring lives? — Jonathan Galassi

I am basically analytical, not creative; my writing is simply a creative way of handling analysis. — Philip K. Dick

What I enjoy about reviewing and writing for newspapers and periodicals is simply the chance to talk about all kinds of books and lots of them. — Michael Dirda

If a book falls open in a library and no one sees it, is it still writing? Or is it simply a page bearing abstract markings? — Zanesh Catkin

Writing is simply one thought after another dying upon the one before. — Mel Brooks

He was after all, a novelist ... and a novelist was simply a fellow who got paid to tell lies. The bigger the lies, the better the pay. — Stephen King

Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction:
Simply to participate. — Alan Moore

Writing is not hard work, it is simply an obsession ... — Hallie Burnett

Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does. — Anne Roiphe

Whether you're conducting phone interviews or simply need to hear yourself think, privacy is an extremely important variable in the writing life. — Sage Cohen

Most days, writing simply requires work-ethic, discipline, clarity, focus, time. Other days ... it will demand absolutely everything of you. — Christy Hall

No one should go into debt to study creative writing. It's simply not worth it. This is not medical school. — Ann Patchett

I feel like I write the same album every time but each time I try to convey the message more simply. — Jason Mraz

Semi-facetiously, when people ask me why I write these kinds of stories, I simply say that I was warped as a child. And, there is some truth to that. — Stephen King