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Everyone should write a book, if only to seehow much work goes into even the slight volume I send you. — Susan Wallace
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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[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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
Caesar's double-bed is warmAs 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
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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 fear of a work becoming dated is one of the most effective tools for keeping people from writing political work.
— Tony Kushner
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 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
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
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
