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Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone. — Rebecca Solnit

You generally know when someone asks you to do something- am I more writing, or am I more editing? The editor is the best metaphor for your job. — Keith Rabois

And maybe it was fair; if a book was any good, it was a slap in the face to someone. — John Irving

Someone once said that the joy is not in writing but in having written. I can't say I find that to be true, though I understand the sentiment. — Adam Gopnik

Some people are going to be impatient no matter what. If I wrote two books a year, someone out there would be pissed I wasn't writing three. — Patrick Rothfuss

The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down. — A. Whitney Brown

I write scripts by myself. It's not for everybody. It's someone's personal work. I need to be in love with the subject. — Jean-Pierre Jeunet

I needed it to have experiences I could write about. I thought I was someone who had nothing to say. — Karl Hyde

Write. Finish things. Get them published. Write something else while you're waiting for someone to publish the first thing ... — Neil Gaiman

You are someone and you have a right to your life. — Richard Hugo

I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told me to. — Fay Weldon

Those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for a child. — Katherine Paterson

Someone should take a vacuum cleaner to his sentences. — John Searles

If I were a writer and not a singer in 10 years, I don't know how I'd feel about writing really personal songs and getting someone else to sing them. — Adele

A true writer is someone the gods have called to the task. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I sometimes write as if I were talking to myself, or to a mirror, or to someone for the last time. There's this element of confrontation. — Angel Olsen

If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all. — Billie Holiday

If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code. — Clifford Geertz

Sometimes saying 'goodbye' may be the best thing to say to someone! — Avijeet Das

Editing fiction is like using your fingers to untangle the hair of someone you love. — Stephanie Roberts

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone. — Amy Tan

Letter writing can be seen as a gift because someone has taken his/her time to write and think and express love. — Soraya Diase Coffelt

I want to write a song for someone who has just fallen in love or someone single and living their live. — Taylor Swift

Hiring someone to write your autobiography is like hiring someone to take a bath for you — Mae West

In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it. — Alice Munro

It's not given even to the greatest writers to tell someone else's story. — Marty Rubin

Writing as an art form belongs to all people, regardless of economic class or educational level ... A writer is someone who writes. — Pat Schneider

I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom. — Anne McCaffrey

Writing with other people is the only way I ever really work. In some ways it's great because it's helpful to someone pull you out of the loop. — Lauren Mayberry

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 think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership. — Joshua Ferris

You don't just decide to destroy a person by making up stuff, and no one at 'SNL' is writing to go after someone. — Tina Fey

Never apologise for not being someone else. You're bound to find something you're good at, even if it's only writing stories. — Geraldine McCaughrean

People come up to me and say, 'Can I just thank you for writing my life?' And I reply, 'I'm glad someone else is as idiotic as I am.' — Miranda Hart

Write what you know. But make sure someone else would want to know it too! — Matthew Culberson

Certain places seem to exist mainly because someone has written about them. — Joan Didion

I really looked up to Tina Fey as a writer, and because I did have a background in writing, she is someone whose career I really did admire. — Nasim Pedrad

Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else. — Joyce Carol Oates

Every one has a story someone in the world needs to hear. — Tami Belt

I prefer writing for myself to perform, I guess. But if I had to choose, I'd rather perform in someone's movie than write a movie for someone else. — Kristen Schaal

Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it. — Alan Perlis

Show me a writer, any writer, who hasn't suffered and I'll show you someone who writes in pastels as opposed to primary colors. — Rita Mae Brown

You can't wait for someone to give you a show. That can't be the first time you're writing and drawing a character. — Rebecca Sugar

A writer in someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is. — Orhan Pamuk

I really try to write as an ordinary person would, not as someone who's too sophisticated about food, or too knowledgeable about things. — Michael Pollan

I need to have some depth in my characters. That's why they are all Bengalis. I can't imagine writing a book with someone called Saxena as the hero. — Upamanyu Chatterjee

When will someone write from the point of view of a joke, that is to say the
way God sees events from above? — Gustave Flaubert

As they say, it's possible to kill and to revive someone using a proper speech. I agree with the statement because I know for sure it is true. — Sahara Sanders

When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book. — Mary Higgins Clark

When someone gives you advice, just ask them to give it in writing and they will either keep mum or will run from there. — Amit Kalantri

You have to stick to what you love, as writing is such a lonely and depressing existence ... stick to what you love and someone will hear your voice. — Chris Terrio

You will never know all there is to know. You will learn until your final days. Then you will inspire someone else. This is what an artist does. — Mitch Albom

What is your suggestion for someone who wants to start writing? Be a reader. It's the only real way to learn how to tell a story. — Natalie Babbitt

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft. — H.G.Wells

That's one of the great thing about writing is that you get to be in someone's head. — Lauren Conrad

The fact that someone can relate to something you, in an intimate moment, jotted down, just blew me away. — Trent Reznor

You have two choices, write about something of significance or do something someone wants to write about. — Benjamin Franklin

An author is like an incompetent bricklayer - doesn't use mortar and keeps rearranging the bricks until someone tells him to stop. — Chris Everheart

Sometimes, I do have something to say, so I'll sit there and I'll write a song to someone - and then I just throw it away because it makes me cringe. — Bradford Cox

As a child, I was very careful not to erase my mother's writing on the chalkboard because I would miss her. — Joyce Rachelle

Writing to someone is the only way to wait for him without hurting oneself. — Alessandro Baricco

Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously. — Richard Powers

As a writer, I don't think it's my responsibility to make a point. I just write and hope there's someone who'll like it. — Tama Janowitz

No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document. — H.G.Wells

Once you start writing something obsessively, it's almost like someone has to rip it from your hands in order for you to put it down. — Mike Birbiglia

My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer? — Joyce Maynard

Writing is a solitary job, and should be taken to someone who believes in you. — Stephen King

There's no such thing as a "wanna-be". Only someone who hasn't found the drive to take on a dream head on. Find the drive, be what you want to be. — Chris Almeida

I write to save someone's life, probably my own — Clarice Lispector

I can't write to please everyone, but someone, somewhere will be touched if I put my heart into it. — Sara Winters

To write is your last resort when you've betrayed someone. — Jean Genet

Try to be someone upon whom nothing is lost! — Henry James

I'm not really a full-time director, I just like to direct the things that I write because I think I'm going to know it better than someone else. — Billy Bob Thornton

You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough. — Haruki Murakami

To write an article about someone and then to have that person murdered is disturbing. — Laurence Shames

If you want your own distinctive voice, you first have to become someone ... — John Geddes

Writing a book without promoting it is like waving to someone in a dark room. You know what have you done but nobody else does."
~Madi Preda — Madi Preda

When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself. — Shane MacGowan

I think if I could ever write with someone, I'd love to write a song with Loretta Lynn or Dolly Parton. — Jamie Lynn Spears

In the year 2000 an illiterate person will not be someone who can't read or write, but someone who is not able to learn, unlearn and learn again. — Alvin Toffler

Writing does not exist unless there is someone to read it, and each reader will take something different from a novel, from a chapter, from a line. — Claire Fuller

If there's something that I really need to say that I can't say by speaking to someone, I usually write it in a song or a letter to someone. — Joshua Radin

I don't feel that I have to control every aspect of things that I appear in. You learn a lot performing someone else's writing. — Steve Carell

In fact, the very phrase "teaching creative writing" sounds to me oxymoronic. How can you teach someone to be creative? — Yuriy Tarnawsky

You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can't teach someone who writes columns to care. — Ellen Goodman

I've been waiting for someone to sign the permission slip for me to write about sex. In the meantime, I've written about sex in all my books anyway. — Meg Wolitzer

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

An editor is someone who is paid to tell a writer what she thinks about how he wrote what he thinks about. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places. — Nick Cave

It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing. — James Schuyler

It is not easy writing someone a postcard. The size and shape of the card cut you down to size ... — Ron Padgett

What do you think happens to a composer who is sincere and loves to write and has to wait thirty years to have someone play a piece of his music? — Charles Mingus

What is a historian? Someone who doesn't write well enough to work on a daily. — Karl Kraus

Above all, have a good time. If you aren't enjoying writing it, you can hardly expect someone else to enjoy reading it. — Tom Robbins

If someone writes a nice review of my record, I feel like I should take them out to dinner or go over and clean their apartment. — Moby

Inspiring someone else to follow their dreams is the hope of anyone who has the courage to follow their own. — Dawn Garcia

Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else — William S. McFeely

Like someone excitedly relating a story, only to find the words petering out, the path gets narrower the further I go, the undergrowth taking over. — Haruki Murakami

The only difference between a writer and someone who wants to be a writer is discipline. — Ayelet Waldman

You think writing a book is hard? Wait until you give it to someone to read. — Ken Stark