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Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen. — Willa Cather

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

Ideas are not in textbooks and journals, Ideas are more deeper than the shallow written works of men. You are the idea that comes like an idea. — Michael Bassey Johnson

We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire. — Charles Caleb Colton

Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man. — W. Somerset Maugham

Do not write for the many who would disparage your words but for the few who would die if not for the consumption of your works. — J.N. Race

Reading literary works enlightened and sheltered me; now I'm paying back by writing.

--"My Confession — Zoe S. Roy

Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's. — Dorianne Laux

I listened to a lot of Bob Dylan songs to see how he works. I've gotten into writing story-songs. — Scott Weiland

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

That's how writing works, at least for me: even the stuff that doesn't work out gets funneled into the stuff that does work out. — John Green

Novelist: A person who has more than a dozen novels in the works and thinks it would be novel to finish one. — Michael Kroft

Writing is all a lottery
I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age. — Tobias Smollett

Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works. — Ernest Hemingway,

My writing works best when I remember that bookish child who adored reading and gear the work toward him. — Bruce Coville

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. — Samuel Johnson

The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what's told alive. — Eudora Welty

Anything works, as long as you write it properly. — Russell T. Davies

I love new writing, new blood, modern works by unknown writers. — Joseph Fiennes

If you're writing fantasy or science fiction, it's really hard to do if you don't know a lot, at least in a basic way, about how the real world works. — Tad Williams

Every author has different ways of writing and what works for one author does not necessarily work for another. — Robert Munsch

When you don't have the pressure of pleasing someone else and do something because you love doing it, that's when the best works are born. — Vishwas Mudagal

Everyone would like to be on Broadway, cause if a show works, you make a great deal of money and it allows you to write other shows. — Stephen Sondheim

The artist works by locating the world in himself — Gertrude Stein

The professorial dictum has always been to write what you know, but I say write what you don't know and find something out. And it works. — T.C. Boyle

Always write with passion. Think of writing as a way of bringing all your hopes, dreams, and thoughts to life. — Cherlina Works

Writing it all down is like taking a good shit, if done right you probably feel empty afterwards. — Solange Nicole

Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life ... I have put only my talent into my works. — Oscar Wilde

The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just does not suffice. — Wole Soyinka

For all my longer works (i.e. the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them later on. — Garth Nix

For me writing is foremost a mode of thinking and when it works well, an act of discovery — Joseph Epstein

Writing is incredibly important to me as a way of handling the world, understanding how it works. — Romesh Gunesekera

Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always surprises me. — Bret Easton Ellis

No one knows if something works until it actually works. That's why you must always try. — S.A. Tawks

I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato. — Arthur Schopenhauer

My works are all expressly my own - pleasingly peculiar, not a borrowed stroke in one of them. I write as I feel and as I don't feel. — Amanda McKittrick Ros

Whatever works for the piece I'm thinking about is the way I write ... — Glenn Branca

Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing. — Joyce Carol Oates

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

Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater. — William E. Simon

All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works. — Paul Auster

I wish I could write while I'm on the road but it never works for me. I need to be sitting still. — Jami Attenberg

An author really ought to have nothing but flowers in the room where he works. — Gaston Leroux

When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion. — Brit Marling

That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version. — Chuck Palahniuk

Writing is flying in dreams. When you remember. When you can. When it works. It's that easy. — Neil Gaiman

Anyone who works in the arts knows, if you're writing a novel or a play or anything, you have to be ready for someone to say, 'Your time is up.' — Colm Toibin

I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works. — Haruki Murakami

There's no rule for better writing. Make your own rules, and see what works best for you. — Tarang Sinha

Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even if you love it. — Stephen King

Embrace what works and discard what doesn't. — S.A. Tawks

I hope to be remembered for writing books about social justice that also have enough aesthetic value to endure as works of literature. — Jonathan Kozol

Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. The writer doubles and trebles the power of writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. — Victor Hugo

All the sciences came to exist in Arabic. The systematic works on them were written in Arabic writing. — Ibn Khaldun

Writing a novel is just like life ... it's only in the doing of it that I find out what works. — Angela Young

A writer off-guard since the materials with which he works are so dangerous can expect agony as quick as a thunderclap. — Kurt Vonnegut

'Write what you know' works, but it's limiting. Write what fascinates you. Write what you can't stop thinking about. — Brian Koppelman

The only thing that works with writing is that you care so passionately about it yourself, that you make someone else care passionately about it. — Judy Blume

I like writing a joke, and I like when a joke works, and I like other comics who tell jokes. — Dave Attell