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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
Reading literary works enlightened and sheltered me; now I'm paying back by writing.
--"My Confession — Zoe S. Roy
--"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
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
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
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
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
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
Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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
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
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
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
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
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