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Stanley went on, highly dangerous, fanatical and additictied to violence'- Blimey Fred, is it your mother writing this? They seem to know you so well
— Jonathan Stroud
I've done too many stupid things for there not to be movies made about me when I'm dead, so I might as well write the script.
— George Michael
Sean Penn, for his acting as well as his writing and directing. There are so many actors I respect, but his reach is so wide.
— Boyd Holbrook
The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as for evil, is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected upon.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.
— Chuck Berry
I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.
— Tom T. Hall
There's power in stories, though. That's all history is: the best tales. The ones that last. Might as well be mine.
— Varric Tethras
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
To me Art (poetry) is a continuous and continuing process and that when a man fails to write good poetry he fails to live fully or well.
— Charles Bukowski
He isn't a - well...eh." She made a face. "Well, yeah.
— Molly McAdams
The idea of directing was something that I always had in the back of my mind, and writing as well. I began to write screenplays when I was in my 20's.
— Charles Martin Smith
Why does the writing make us chase the writer? Why can't we leave well enough alone? Why aren't the books enough?
— Julian Barnes
Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
— Andre Breton
You may very well ask what the goddess of love is doing in St. Andrews, writing trashy romances. Adapting.
— Kelly Link
Sound judgment is the ground of writing well.
— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon
Say a thing well and it will be remembered-and so too will you.
— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
After all, one travels in order for things to happen and change; otherwise you might as well stay at home.
— Nicolas Bouvier
I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it again.
— Flannery O'Connor
Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it.
— Victoria Gotti
I don't think I write well - just better than anyone else,
— Philip Larkin
When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well.
— Antony Sher
Well, I have to write. A lot of people forget that. They think I'm sort of crazy baffoon who can't make up his mind what to do in life
— George Plimpton
A professional writer is someone who writes just as well when they're not inspired as when they are.
— Philip Pullman
I gave Joss Whedon and Judd Apatow their first writing jobs, as well as many other untried writers who went on to great success.
— Roseanne Barr
I like photography and I write; I also write music. One day I would like to direct [films] as well .
— Zoe Kravitz
Nothing listens as well as a blank page.
— Shaun Hick
I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing.
— Alice Hoffman
Sound gives life to our words just as well as the images they conjure up and the sound is there, whether or not we read them aloud.
— A.A. Patawaran
Well, yes: people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them.
— Hans Christian Andersen
Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato.
— George Berkeley
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
— George Orwell
A story is not only meaning, it's music as well.
— Aharon Appelfeld
To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.
— William Shakespeare
I write every day. Even if I'm not writing well, I write through it. I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank one.
— Nora Roberts
In writing I found something I could do at least as well as my peers, if not better.
— Brian P. Cleary
Well, everything surprises me about the writing process because illustrating comes much more naturally to me than writing does.
— Brian Selznick
Writing well has everything to do with being able to read one's own work with an eye toward the unmet possibilities that are there.
— Lucy Calkins
You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway.
— Robert Bly
If Dante was writing The Divine Comedy in 2013, he might very well have set part of it in the suburbs.
— Joshua Mohr
Writing responds well to some gentle scheduling. A day job not only promotes solvency, it promotes creativity as well.
— Julia Cameron
If I write as well as I golf, I'm in trouble!
— Buffy Andrews
Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can.
— Sue Grafton
You have to write badly in order to write well.
— William Faulkner
Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.
— Julia Cameron
Only God gets it right the first time and only a slob says, Oh well, let it go, that's what copyeditors are for.
— Stephen King
You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.
— Kurt Vonnegut
When you write from the heart, you not only light the dark path of your readers, you light your own way as well.
— Marjorie Holmes
I write really well on the road.
— Pam Houston
I can act ... I do a little writing as well. And I'm good at typing. I'm a creative typist, actually.
— Chris Colfer
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[On book promotion:] The reward for writing well appears to be not to be able to do it for a long time.
— Rosellen Brown
A well-known writer said writing is like getting sick to your stomach. You throw up and clean up afterward.
— Maija Rhee Devine
If you write a screenplay that gets circulated, you have a bigger readership than any literary novelist. And it's an educated audience as well.
— William Monahan
The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Writers have problems writing sex scenes, because writing one really well is pornography.
— Fran Lebowitz
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 will write myself into well-being.
— Nancy Mairs
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
It is very important to be reading as well as writing. A doctor is not going to ignore new surgery practices.
— Brandon Sanderson
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
And, you know, I liked writing humor. Well, I should say, I wanted to write seriously, but it kept turning funny.
— Roseanne Barr
He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.
— Charles Bukowski
Let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences
— Sylvia Plath
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
— Quintilian
I almost always urge people to write in the first person ... Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it.
— William Zinsser
A writing cook and a cooking writer must be bold at the desk as well as the stove.
— Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher
A life well-lived or a life lived well? The placement of words really does change the connotation.
— Carol Morgan
They say marriages work better if you don't know the person too well. Maybe we should stop writing each other posthaste.
— Bill Callahan
Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven.
— Colbie Caillat
Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess.
— Robert Adamson
Besides, if you want to write something perfect, write a haiku. Anything longer is bound to have a few passages that don't work as well as they might.
— Philip Pullman
Write what's in you. Write readily and well. Then edit. Then share or send. Not before.
— Rodney Richards
My new book is going well. It's practically writing itself! Actually, what I mean is I'm not writing it, my clone is.
— Jarod Kintz
When I'm writing well, I feel happy. And when I go too long without writing, I begin to implode.
— Mohsin Hamid
Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together.
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon