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Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.
— Aaron Sorkin
It's exciting to watch people do and write and say what they feel like doing, writing and saying.
— Uzo Aduba
The men who make history have not time to write it.
— Klemens Von Metternich
The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them.
— Paul Johnson
He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by heart.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The story is always better than your ability to write it.
— Robin McKinley
Most journalists are impatient to get their legwork done and to start the actual writing
— David Halberstam
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
— Marcus Valerius Martialis
I am telling you what I know - words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.
— E.L. Doctorow
The last thing you want to do is write songs about being in a band.
— Matt Berninger
I want to write something that makes it easy for young people to look right into the abyss.
— Dave Mustaine
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
To begin impatiently is the worst mistake a writer can make
— Antony Beevor
Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
— Brendan Francis Brown
Writing music is always really helpful for me. It always reveals to me how I am feeling.
— Erika M. Anderson
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
After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.
— Lloyd Alexander
I prefer the absurdity of writing poemsto the absurdity of not writing poems. — Wislawa Szymborska
Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.
— Carol Ann Duffy
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
Writers have to be tenacious to the point of being pathological. Rejection and criticism is assured.
— Mary Lawrence
Our words must seem to be inevitable.
— William Butler Yeats
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
— Derek Walcott
If fiction and fantasy books are escapism, then let an author write them so as to better equip the reader to face reality by the end.
— Brett Armstrong
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
I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.
— Trey Anastasio
All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs.
— Antonin Artaud
To withhold words is power. But to share our words with others, openly and honestly, is also power.
— Terry Tempest Williams
I don't really think our government at heart wants peace. So I urge you, write to Mrs. Laura Bush, because she reads.
— Sandra Cisneros
Reading while I'm writing ideally inspires my competitive side. When I read great writers, I want to be a better writer.
— Amity Gaige
My writings are my letters to the universe, who loved me like a mother.
— Debasish Mridha
Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book.
— Wally Lamb
Eventually writing became more interesting to me than acting.
— Sylvester Stallone
My early life has given me a great deal to draw on, certainly - but would I have swapped a happy childhood for the writing? Yes.
— Bruce Robinson
When Chaplin found a voice to say what was on his mind, he was like a child of eight writing lyrics for Beethoven's Ninth.
— Billy Wilder
Poets should never stop writing, because their words could be a powerful inspiration to someone else, whether it be now or 100 years from today.
— Delano Johnson
It is very important to be reading as well as writing. A doctor is not going to ignore new surgery practices.
— Brandon Sanderson
I love stand-up, but the process of writing is a little more lonely. I want to keep doing both, though.
— Jack Whitehall
Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
— Sinclair Lewis
I don't really write jokes. I wait for stuff to happen in life, and then I tell it on stage.
— Kathleen Madigan
I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write.
— Ellen Glasgow
If I propose to myself and myself says yes, I get to have the cake, right? I love me, so I'm thinking 12 tiers.
— Michelle M. Pillow
Working 9 to 5 is structure. But tying lines together all hours of day is structure at its best performing magic.
— C.C. Wyatt
You can't think yourself out of a writing block; you have to write yourself out of a thinking block.
— John Rogers
Whenever something good happens, write it down. Buy a special notebook ... and use it to list all the good in your life.
— Peter McWilliams
To me, writing is like learning to ride a bike. At first you have your training wheels on but before you know it, you have graduated to a ten speed!!
— Lorine S. Thomas
It doesn't take five novels to become a great writer ... it takes one novel rewritten five different times.
— B. Chancellor Burgweger
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 life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it.
— Gabrielle Roy
I do not want to have the feeling of writing 'for eternity', so to speak.
— Elfriede Jelinek
People don't read to enlighten themselves or seek to gain some valuable insight into their own psychology. People read to escape.
— Dermot Davis
It is not a crime to commit First Degree Writing
— Temple Emmet Williams
I consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me.
— James Lasdun
Being an author is to have a toe in the creative pool and a foot in the vat of commerce.
— Fennel Hudson
A few hints as to literary craftsmanship may be useful to budding historians. First and foremost, get writing!
— Samuel Eliot Morison
Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.
— Charlotte Eriksson
Poor, harmless paper, that might have gone to print a Shakespeare on, and was instead so clumsily defaced with nonsense.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing.
— Kenneth Williams
My style of lyric-writing is very specific and has a lot of details, and I think people react most to that.
— Craig Finn
It is almost possible to measure a writer's skill by the dexterity with which he repeats, and yet avoids monotony.
— George G. Williams
Old memories are very easy to get except that once you write about something you've destroyed it.
— Annie Dillard
The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
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
Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years.
— T.K. Naliaka
The more PR buzzwords you include in your press release, the less likely I am to write you up
— Ben Parr
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.
— Elvis Costello
There are lots of ways of answering a letter - and writing doesn't happen to be mine.
— Edith Wharton
To write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a flag to the top of a mast in a raging gale.
— Virginia Woolf
Try not to write the parts that people skip.
— Elmore Leonard
I have two dogs myself and they are always around when I write, so they tend to creep in there.
— Arthur Bradford
When we make time to write, we can do it anytime, anywhere.
— Julia Cameron
I've always wanted to do a Crichton book. I really love his writing.
— Richard Donner
The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done.
— Flannery O'Connor
I've evolved in my writing to tell a more emotional story - my publisher, Random House, has urged that.
— Alan Furst
Being able to read well in public and talk about your work in an engaging fashion is part of most writers' job specification.
— Sara Sheridan
I speak to the paper, as I speak to the first person I meet.
— Michel De Montaigne
I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.
— J.K. Rowling
Writing was something I always as a kid thought would be fabulous and glamorous to be a writer.
— Ann Leckie
