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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

Writing is easy. Writing well is hard work. — Amy Joy

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

My stories are my children. Some are sweet infants that I coddle and care for. Others are old enough now, they need to damn well get a job! — Christy Hall

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

The best style of writing, as well as the most forcible, is the plainest. — Horace Greeley

If you can't write the next line, well, you're dead. The past doesn't matter. — Charles Bukowski

One of the strangest things about writing well is that it requires two different zones in the brain
rigor and recklessness
simultaneously. — Carole Maso

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

Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking. — Horace

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

A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life. — E. M. Forster

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

To write is to stand at the edge of a bottomless well, unafraid of falling in. — Steven Ramirez

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

I bet there are a lot of women out there who want to sleep with a guy who reads. And being the head of the reading foundation, I'm very well endowed. — Bauvard

If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them. — George Orwell

Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college. — Dave Eggers

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

You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will become involved. — Tracy Kidder

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man. — Aristotle.

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

It is possible to live well with dementia and write best-sellers 'like wot I do. — Terry Pratchett

I was afraid I wrote neither well enough nor ill enough for success. — E.W. Hornung

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

To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help doing. — Vicki Baum

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

Writing well means never having to say, I guess you had to be there. — Jef Mallett

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

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing. — Isaac D'Israeli

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

[On book promotion:] The reward for writing well appears to be not to be able to do it for a long time. — Rosellen Brown

You have to know writing styles well before you can copy them - and then incorporate parts of them into your own style. — Josh Lieb

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

Women can spin very well, but they cannot write a good book of cookery. — Samuel Johnson

A good day's writing, when I turn off my computer after I know that I've written okay, or as well as I can write, that's a day well spent. — James Lipton

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

If things are going well, if the writing's coming along, I jump out of bed happy. And if the previous day has been bad, I get out of bed disgruntled. — Robert Caro

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

The only thing better than a well-read book is a well-read book only read by yourself. — S.A. Tawks

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

You cannot write in more than one language. Words don't come out as well. — Elie Wiesel

I wasn't particularly good at school so always found essay writing hard, so I didn't do that well at English or history, even though I enjoyed it. — Ruby Bentall

By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly. — Quintilian

You ask me why I write. You might as well ask me why I breathe. I need oxygen to feed my body and ink to feed my soul. — Bryce Main

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

If you wish to write well, study the life about you,
life in the public streets. — Horace Mann

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