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Writing is hard work. Attempting to write a decent story is friggin exhausting! — Veronica Purcell

Everyone should write a book, if only to see
how much work goes into even the slight volume I send you. — Susan Wallace

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

In writing, there is art. And in art there is craft ... — Susi Moore

Writing is a craft, being an author is work, and having readers and a following is a gift. — Michael J. Kannengieser

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

A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated. — Robert Benchley

[To an author who asked his opinion of his writing]
I have found only three things wrong with your work, the beginning, the middle, and the end. — George Bernard Shaw

May you will have the grace to complete the task. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode. — Don Roff

Work on one thing at a time until finished. — Henry Miller

Sondheim is my god; I love the man. I learned a great deal about writing from his work, his lyrics, and his structure. — Richard LaGravenese

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always. — Arthur Miller

If you're going to fall out of love with public approval, something interesting will happen: people will be deeply attracted to your work. — Jeff Goins

The best way to learn to write is to study the work of the men and women who are doing the kind of writing you want to do. — William Zinsser

Writing is a legal way of avoiding work without actually stealing and one that doesn't take any talent or training — Robert A. Heinlein

The more interesting the 9-to-5 work is, the more it takes away from my real work, which is writing. — Judith Rossner

I'm partial to coffee shops, brain work, and poems on the page. I write after midnight. Sometimes, twisty syntax happens, and I surrender. — Marvin Bell

Music is my work, writing songs is my work, touring is my work, going into the studio is my work. — Burning Spear

There is a great deal that either has to be given up or be taken away from you if you are going to succeed in writing a body of work. — Susan Sontag

Just because something DOES NOT work, that doesn't mean it CANNOT. — Sarah M. Cradit

Solitude and quiet are highly desirable, but the lack of them is no barrier to writing ... The will to work builds all the seclusion that one needs. — John Braine

Clearly the work of a master teacher who has deep knowledge of his subject and enormous empathy for his students and his readers. — Betty Edwards

For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles. — Jim Capaldi

You need the devotion to your work that a priest of God has for his. — Ernest Hemingway,

If you want to produce exceptional writing you have to put the work into it. — R.L. Hemlock

Writing is rewriting... If you fall in love with the vision you want of your work and not your words, the rewriting will become easier. — Nora DeLoach

It is axiomatic with most writing people that there are no such things as perfect conditions for work. — Mary Roberts Rinehart

It's a very dull thing to watch, a writer at work. So dull that whole casts of characters show up just to watch the boring writer writing. — Debi Gliori

They say marriages work better if you don't know the person too well. Maybe we should stop writing each other posthaste. — Bill Callahan

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

Poets and writers don't live either for money or for fame. And even without any recognition for their work they keep on writing! — Avijeet Das

I would say that writing, both the act of writing, and of course reading of other people's work is, for me, supreme joy. — James Lipton

Writing is work and cooking is relaxing. — Diane Mott Davidson

[On writing:] What a difficult kind of work to choose! But of course one did not choose it. There was no choice. — Ivy Compton-Burnett

Writing is hard work. — William Zinsser

Because I don't work with an outline, writing a story is like crossing a stream, now I'm on this rock, now I'm on this rock, now I'm on this rock. — Ann Beattie

Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work. — Gary Paulsen

And dialogue, I'm good at it, and it's because it's the only thing you have to work with in TV writing. — Maria Semple

Fun is when you're writing a song and you're trying a rough shot at a demo and ... it works. That's when it's fun. After that, it's work. — Tom Scholz

Why do I keep evading my work? Is it because I'm afraid of being confronted by my lack of abilities? — Candace Bushnell

Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration? — Ann Patchett

Three hours of writing require twenty hours of preparation. Luckily I have learned to dream about the work, which saves me some working time. — John Steinbeck

Writing novels is not an illness that need be recovered from. It is my work; it is what I do. — Shannon Winslow

The writing for me is hard work and I always look forward to drawing the pictures. — Marc Brown

That's the hard work of writing. The imagining. — Jincy Willett

Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just as profound as the pyramids. — James Turrell

I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know. — Mel Brooks

I'm used to pressure. When writing must get done, I work in bed, on a bus, a train. — Darren Star

Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing. — Mark Haddon

What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work. — Virginia Woolf

I've never had any kind of work ethic. I've never sat down with the intention of writing a song. — Dan Bejar

(N)ot writing was hard work, almost as hard as writing. — Jincy Willett

I remember in my early 20s when I felt I couldn't live past 30. I was learning how to write. I had a lot of hard work ahead of me. — Carl Sandburg

Work, love, courage and hope,
Make me good and help me cope! — Anne Frank

Work with yourself. — A.D. Posey

Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you. — Dorothy Day

For the big stuff to work credibly, you've got to get the little stuff absolutely right. — Philip Gerard

No individual element in your story, including the hero, will work unless you first create it and define it in relation to all the other elements. — John Truby

I truly believe that if you put your goals in writing, speak them out loud and work for them, they will happen. — Ciara

I have made three rules of writing for myself that are absolutes: Never take advice. Never show or discuss work in progress. Never answer a critic. — Raymond Chandler

Write It, Work It, Publish — Cherry-Ann Carew

With a bit of luck and a lot of hard work, this writing thing may just pan out. — Rebel Miller

If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction. — Salman Rushdie

After you have finished a piece of work, the work is then none of your business. Go on and do something else. — Natalie Goldberg

I usually don't have to do a lot of research in my work, as I'm writing about something I'm already familiar with. — Amy Bloom

Caesar's double-bed is warm
As an unimportant clerk
Writes i do not like my work
On a pink official form. — W. H. Auden

Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so. — Julianna Baggott

I don't think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work. — William Golding

I know writers for whom the act of writing is a necessary chore. They suffer to write great work. I am very lucky that for me writing is a delight. — Denise Duhamel

The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work. — Margaret Fuller

The fear of a work becoming dated is one of the most effective tools for keeping people from writing political work. — Tony Kushner

Most days, writing simply requires work-ethic, discipline, clarity, focus, time. Other days ... it will demand absolutely everything of you. — Christy Hall

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

If this whole writing thing doesn't work out, I'll be getting right back on the pole. — Diablo Cody

I get very invested in characters, it's the only way I find that I can write a book and really make it work. — Gail Simone

The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me. — John Irving

Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom. — Jeanette Winterson

My work is writing, but my real work is being. — William, Saroyan

An Authorpreneur focuses on establishing one's brand to the consumer using different avenues to promote their work. — Geraldine Solon

There's magic in the unknown; a brooding fertility in the unknowable that can work on the reader's imagination long after a book is finished. — Claire Wingfield

A film that is a true work of art transcends theatre and heartwarmingly changes lives. — A.D. Posey

It is so much hard work writing your first novel. You're not even sure that it is possible to do. — Asa Larsson

I just have to be super strong when it comes to my work time. Shut the browser, ignore the email alerts, and just WRITE. — Sarah Dessen

If you don't think screenwriting is a work of art, good luck in your life without a soul. — A.D. Posey

Turning the blog into a book was extremely difficult, a tremendous amount of sustained, hard work. Blogging is easy; writing a book is difficult. — Kate Christensen

There would be times when I got so much work that I didn't have time to write. School interfered with writing more than writing with school. — Amity Gaige

Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation. — Wislawa Szymborska

If you're going to have a complicated story, you must work to a map; otherwise you can never make a map of it afterwards. — J.R.R. Tolkien

You know how writers are ... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves. — Orson Scott Card

The hardest thing about being a writer is convincing your wife that lying on the sofa is work. — John Hughes

Do not write the conclusion of a work in your familiar study. You would not find the necessary courage there. — Walter Benjamin

I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural. — Anne Enright

Only bad writers think that their work is really good. — Anne Enright

When the work is the best work, it's more like being a secretary than it is a creative person, you just sort of take the stuff down. — Stephen King

If you aren't willing to put your best work out there, write for yourself. Don't ever publish. — Eliza Green

Writing is hard work; it's also the best job I've ever had. — Raymond E. Feist

General writing about science, even if we do it badly, helps us to see our work in perspective and broadens our vision. — Martin Rees

Although I like the work I've done in the past, I like what I'm writing now even more. — Cynthia Weil

Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just work. — Sinclair Lewis