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I do not believe that I should only write about what I know but that I should write also of the other. — Felisberto Hernandez

Sometimes I have something stuck in my head and that directs the rhyme that I'm writing with. — Courtney Barnett

I have long discovered that geologists never read each other's works, and that the only object in writing a book is a proof of earnestness. — Charles Darwin

But I never want to get to the point where I write a safe song or one that represents my sense of a subject in order to appear civilized. — Suzanne Vega

Jay Abraham's client sent him $50,000 a month for a long time for writing one headline. That's what people who understand communication can do. — Eben Pagan

My gift was in comedy. I found out I could make jokes. I could tell jokes. I could write them. So over the years, that's what I've done. — Woody Allen

In the end, you write the book that grabs you by the throat and demands to be written. — Salman Rushdie

Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing. — Nathalie Sarraute

Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief. — Marcus Valerius Martialis

For a living I write stuff that I know is gonna sell to a studio and make a lot of money at the multiplex. — Robert Ben Garant

I knew I would be famous one day. That's because I lived in a very small town and nobody liked doing the same things I did, like writing. — Alice Munro

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

But, right now, the situation is that almost all of my writing is out of print. — Peter Sotos

I want to write something that makes it easy for young people to look right into the abyss. — Dave Mustaine

Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before. — Alice Walker

Good writing just isn't that common. — Eric Flint

I think you have to read a lot. I think if you're going to write about something you better have read at least 100 books on that topic. — Larry Winget

Kids think you just sit down and start writing. I always tell them you never do that. — R.L. Stine

There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either the one or the other. — Charles Caleb Colton

Bear in mind that the novel
no matter how intimate, psychological, or subjective
is always an historical projection of its own time. — Samuel R. Delany

I just got a fortune cookie that says "Turn off your computer and read a book" which is odd because I'm WRITING a book ... on my computer! — Meg Cabot

As Jane Austen might have put it: It is a truth universally acknowledged that young protagonists in search of adventure must ditch their parents. — Philip Pullman

You feel the call. That's the important thing. Now answer it as fully as you can. Take the risk to let all that is in you, out. Escape into the open. — Elizabeth Berg

I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write. — Karen Thompson Walker

Your character that you create in your writing not only represents who you are, but also represents a number of people who you've met along the way. — Grant Morrison

I would rather spend money on something, that fulfills me for eternity. Rather, than something that fulfills me for only an hour or two. — Mary Sage Nguyen

I don't think I'd ever write anything that I don't also direct just because it's so hard and painful to write as it is. — Cary Fukunaga

A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out. — Francis Bacon

Writing sketches, you're also learning about a journey and characters, and you translate that to bigger things. — Jim Rash

I want to make sure that I make music that lasts. I've been experimenting. I've been writing. — David Archuleta

A novelist who has to defend his creation by telling a reader *But that's what really happened*, is a novelist who has failed. — Samuel G. Freedman

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 hope in literature is that we are allowed to be imperfect, to write of our imperfection, without being overly critiqued for being unlikeable. — Kate Zambreno

I guess the quality that makes one write poetry keeps one from selling it. — Louise Closser Hale

Half the rhymes you write, you're saying that you're better than the other MC. That's how we keep the craft sharp. — Ice-T

There is no screenplay-writing recipe that guarantees your cake will rise. — Robert McKee

For me to write I have to be, a, alone, and b, know that nobody is going to question me. I write the way a thief steals; it's a little covert. — Edna O'Brien

I'm not into, Hey, what's your sign? or any of that. But I don't know how I got here, and I don't know how I write songs. I don't know why I breathe. — Paul McCartney

At the end of the day, we have to write music that makes us happy and the day that we stop loving what we do ... we'll quit. — Caleb Followill

The crime part is the engine that moves the narrative and allows me to write the other things I want to write about. — George Pelecanos

I'm very comfortable writing in the first person; it dives into the character in a way that's difficult if you're writing in the third person. — Patti Davis

The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow. — Kurt Vonnegut

[...] She knew it a book it was not just a book. Everything had a meaning. There was an invisible web that connected the words. It was like magic — Ben Oliveira

I don't write things to benefit the world. If it happens that they do, swell. I didn't set out to do that. I set out to have a hell of a lot of fun. — Ray Bradbury

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid. — William Faulkner

My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug to write also. — George Strait

I feel much more comfortable in politics than I did in book writing. Book writing is so hard. Politics felt easy compared to that. — Zephyr Teachout

Seventy percent of a first draft is garbage and 30 percent is gold, but you have to write 100 percent to get that 30. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time. — Julian Barnes

I have always wanted to write in such a way that will make people think, Why, I've always thought that but never found the words for it. — Pamela Hansford Johnson

The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour after hour. — Lincoln Child

It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another. — Dan Simmons

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

I can't wait to be a mom and a wife, and explore that phase of life. And also see how it affects and influences my song writing and creativity. — Tristan Prettyman

We should not write so that it is possible for the reader to understand us, but so that it is impossible for him to misunderstand us. — Marcus Fabius Quintilianus

Paul and I, we never thought that we would make much money out of the thing. We just loved writing software. — Bill Gates

Twitter seems like a busman's holiday: just more writing. I have no plans to do it. I'll just stick with my 24/7 webcam. I'm old-fashioned that way. — Tina Fey

There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started drinking. — Charles Bukowski

I go on writing so that I will always have something to read. — Jeanette Winterson

The purpose of paragraphing is to give the reader a rest. The writer is saying ... : Have you got that? If so, I'll go to the next point. — Henry Watson Fowler

The writings of leading ID proponents reveal that the designer postulated by their argument is the God of Christianity. — John E. Jones III

I think when you write an enigmatic character into a film, you have to have real confidence that the audience are going to go with it. — Gemma Arterton

I've evolved in my writing to tell a more emotional story - my publisher, Random House, has urged that. — Alan Furst

My biggest lesson ... was to try and create narrators that were believable ... so the listener becomes really invested in the story or the song. — Kristian Bush

I don't believe in that country any longer. I'm not interested. I'm writing in the language, and I like the language. — Joseph Brodsky

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

That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones. — Raymond Carver

I get very invested in characters, it's the only way I find that I can write a book and really make it work. — Gail Simone

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

No man, even though he be Shakespeare, can write perfectly when his web is woven of threads that have been spun in many lands. — William Butler Yeats

Try not to write the parts that people skip. — Elmore Leonard

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

I love writing, but I have that E. E. Cummings idea that as long as you stay inside the rules of your own world, it doesn't matter what it is. — Pete Wentz

Beginnings are so important. Just finding that right moment to introduce this character, this world, it's everything. — Aryn Kyle

When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of. — Cesare Pavese

All of fiction is truthful. What you create is your own truth and no one can take that away or change it. — Walter Dean Myers

Poor, harmless paper, that might have gone to print a Shakespeare on, and was instead so clumsily defaced with nonsense. — Robert Louis Stevenson

This is a little secret that all writers share: We have two lives; the one we live on Earth and the one we live in our books. — Chrys Fey

My style of lyric-writing is very specific and has a lot of details, and I think people react most to that. — Craig Finn

I love the process of creating a story that will resonate in my readers lives ~ either inspiring them, educating them, or entertaining them. — Kathryn Albright

A book consist of thoughts that for a moment don't mind holding hands. — Garry Fitchett

Talk and write in a way that encourages the mutual exchange of ideas and acts like a midwife to people birthing their own ideas. — Grace Lee Boggs

Writing is such a solitary occupation that it takes a long time to build up a group of professional peers with whom you genuinely identify. — Sara Sheridan

I've found in my own life that if my writing isn't going well, not much else will. It is the one constant, the key to everything else. — Sarah Dessen

In writing scripts now, having made a film, I'm much more conscious of what it means to shoot and edit a movie, and that affects the writing. — Josh Radnor

Old memories are very easy to get except that once you write about something you've destroyed it. — Annie Dillard

There would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing. — Markus Zusak

Find your best time of the day for writing and write. Don't let anything else interfere. Afterwards it won't matter to you that the kitchen is a mess. — Esther Freud

You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it. — Thomas Harris

She liked things that had been written by people who had lived short, ugly, and tragic lives. Or, who at least, were English. — Joe Hill

I wrote a fair amount of poetry in college. It was really, really bad. I mean, bad. And that's how I found out - by doing it. — John McPhee

You know, I can't imagine 9 to 5 writing. That takes some stamina. — Brit Marling

Many women arrange their lives around the people they love. Unfortunately, that arrangement takes up most of our days. — Holly Robinson

In the same way that Shakespeare was writing very much for his time, he was also unearthing observations that would last for generations beyond him. — Alexis Denisof

I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message. — Stephen King

I find that writing is the silver lining of life, allowing me to transform vexing experiences into fresh story ideas...after much vexed venting. — Laura Quinn

By writing out your desires and goals on a piece of paper, you send a red flag to your subconscious mind that these thoughts are far more important — Robin S. Sharma

One of the hardest parts of writing is writing from the gut or the heart or something like that rather than intellectually. — George R R Martin

Who knows why we do it? And when we've done it, nobody wants it. Still we keep doing it. That's what makes a writer a writer. — Chloe Thurlow

After all this time I found that the novel is in fact punk rock. — Craig Ferguson