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If you have to wait for it to roar out ofyou,
then wait patiently.
if it never does roar out of you,
do something else. — Charles Bukowski
There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.
— Terry Tempest Williams
Bea stared at the pencils as if they were enemies.
— Carla H. Krueger
Say it new or say it straight.
— Sol Stein
Ursula K. Le Guin urges authors to remember why they do what they do. Her argument is that writing is an form of art rather than a commodity.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
If we don't value the people who inspire us (and money is one mark of that) then what kind of culture are we building?
— Sara Sheridan
A novel is no different than graffiti in a bathroom stall, it's just more pretentious.
— Christy Leigh Stewart
Art is craft, not inspiration.
— Stephen Sondheim
When it comes to performing and entertaining, the art removes itself from the writing.
— Scott Avett
We write to go on living, after we have died.
— Jenim Dibie
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
In the act of creation, as in all the arts, the soul should be felt in the face and the fingers and the tongue, even in the cavities.
— Chris Campanioni
The best kind of writing is that which comes from the authors soul.
— Ndiritu Wahome
The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, I read, therefore it writes.
— Italo Calvino
The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written.
— Elizabeth Kenny
Acceptance and validation are the fuels of the future.
— Kevin James Breaux
Rilke said that art can come only out of inner necessity. I write because I must. Or because I cannot not write.
— Aleksandar Hemon
Creativity is the brain's invisible muscle -- that when used and excercised routinely -- becomes better and stronger.
— Ashley Ormon
The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.
— Mary Heaton Vorse
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Why write [about my art]? Why not just show the photographs?
— Constantin Brancusi
The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.
— C.S. Lewis
There are times when quantity is at least as important as quality in learning an art.
— Lawrence Watt-Evans
The fear of Mortality is the base of Immortality
— Udayveer Singh
Writing, photography...art. It's all about what's in focus.
— Kelly E. Lindner
I get angry about things, then go on and work.
— Toni Morrison
By encouraging the critic in themselves (the hater) they have killed the artist (the lover).
— Brenda Ueland
I figure whatever I choose to create, I'll be neglecting somebody - so my art may as well make me happy. - Audrey Niffenegger
— Jen Campbell
The great art of writing is knowing when to stop.
— Josh Billings
Painting and writing are solitary arts.
— Conrad Hall
Style jazzes up your canvas.
— A.D. Posey
I want to never settle for anything less than my soul on paper.
— Jonathan Culver
(Francis) Bacon's best known writings are his essays. They are loved for many reasons, such as their being so short.
— Richard Armour
Art is everywhere.
— A.D. Posey
Travel is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with existence or the exotic. It is almost always an inner experience.
— Paul Theroux
The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.
— Louis L'Amour
i want to bleed ink and shit prose.
— Jonathan Culver
Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from something that happens in my head and my heart.
— E.L. Konigsburg
When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato.
— George Berkeley
writing is a craft, not an art, and that the man who runs away from his craft because he lacks inspiration is fooling himself.
— William Zinsser
The art of the word is painting + architecture + music.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed.
— Gustave Flaubert
Sometimes writing a single line is enough to save your own heart.
— Clarice Lispector
The art of living. Isn't that a funny expression?
— Anne Frank
We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologiesbut this is very different. — David Foster Wallace
Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
— Joseph Conrad
It's neither and it's both. That's the perfect kind of art. Labels only detract from the artist's intention.
— Ted Dekker
Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
If you don't think screenwriting is a work of art, good luck in your life without a soul.
— A.D. Posey
Programming is the art of writing essays in crystal clear prose and making them executable
— Per Brinch Hansen
It's surprising that readers don't see challenging writing as morally hazardous, when it might be pushing the same kinds of boundaries as art does.
— Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook
Try to be someone upon whom nothing is lost!
— Henry James
Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.
— Walter Darby Bannard
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
Why is joy not considered a fit subject for an artist?
— Eugene Manlove Rhodes
True alchemy lies in this formula: 'Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse'.
— Arthur Rimbaud
Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, but because it wishes to be art.
— Donald Barthelme
The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.
— Ray Bradbury
Writing is an art. A document is your canvas, words are your paint, and a keyboard is your paintbrush.
— Lizzy Grimm
Art is too often discounted as a secondary priority. The writer is necessary to society.
— Kayla Rae Whitaker
I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing.
— Harvey Pekar
There's a fine line between minimalism and not trying very hard.
— Tom Pappalardo
The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.
— Henry James Sumner Maine
Art is much more confined by materials than writing is.
— Molly Crabapple
I always thought writing was the foundation and the basis for journalism in the same way being able to draw is the foundation for art.
— Bob Schieffer
All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.
— Salman Rushdie
Writing isn't a source of pain. It's psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain.
— Dean Koontz
The art of writing is mysterious, the opinions we hold are ephemeral ...
— Jorge Luis Borges
I deal with emotional pain through therapy, writing, therapy in music. I think emotional pain is best dealt with when you use art to express it.
— Naturi Naughton
I'm working when I'm fighting with my wife. I constantly ask myself-how can I use this stuff to literary advantage.
— Art Buchwald
When I'm writing, really writing, everything but breathing is an ignorable distraction.
— Dennis R. Miller
Drawing and painting is like a quickie in bed. Were as novel writing is a long term relationship, much more fulling.
— Tara Dobbs
Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.
— Edward Dahlberg
Venice, it's temples and palaces did seem like fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley