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I do not believe that I should only write about what I know but that I should write also of the other.
— Felisberto Hernandez
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[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived.
— Richard Peck
There are no rules in writing. There are useful principles. Throw them away when they're not useful. But always know what you're throwing away.
— Will Shetterly
The men who make history have not time to write it.
— Klemens Von Metternich
I love writing. I like reading, other people, not myself.
— James Lipton
He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by heart.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer.
— Kurt Vonnegut
The script for 'Thirteen' is tight, and not because of the now-famous six day writing spree, but more because it started out as 15 pages longer.
— Catherine Hardwicke
I've been writing about Vermont independence for nearly ten years ... and, more often than not, it was for an audience of one.
— Thomas Naylor
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
If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?
— Joyce Carol Oates
Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.
— Alice Walker
If I'm writing something and I'm not feeling mischievous, then I know it's not going to be great.
— Elizabeth Meriwether
Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.
— Ernest Hemingway,
A world that does not love, respect and protect its Women is doomed to perish! Because Women are Mother Earth!
— Avijeet Das
Remember: blonde, brunette, and redhead are not personality types.
— Howard Mittelmark
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Why write [about my art]? Why not just show the photographs?
— Constantin Brancusi
Now that I was a novelist, I could not face the ignominy of failing to produce novels.
— Thomas Keneally
I prefer the absurdity of writing poemsto the absurdity of not writing poems. — Wislawa Szymborska
Not knowing stuff - like how your story ends before you start writing - is the seed of a lot of writer's block.
— Dan Alatorre
That's not writing, that's typing.
— Truman Capote
Your character that you create in your writing not only represents who you are, but also represents a number of people who you've met along the way.
— Grant Morrison
A professional writer is someone who writes just as well when they're not inspired as when they are.
— Philip Pullman
Writing humor is not something every single person can do.
— Celia Rivenbark
It's not so easy writing about nothing.
— Patti Smith
You are not the writer. You are the story being told from The Writer.
— Richard Wisniewski
I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it.
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or music, I can write software.
— Yukihiro Matsumoto
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
— Robert A. Heinlein
We should not write so that it is possible for the reader to understand us, but so that it is impossible for him to misunderstand us.
— Marcus Fabius Quintilianus
Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, but because it wishes to be art.
— Donald Barthelme
One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.
— Carlos Fuentes
But I wouldn't recommend writing. You can be a successful writer and never meet another soul. I'm not sure that's a good thing.
— J.G. Ballard
There's no new direction. It's not more poppy or more rocky. They're just rock'n'roll tunes. I'll never change the music I write.
— Noel Gallagher
How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe!
— John Aubrey
People take things a little too personal. I write these songs, and they're experiments with thoughts. That's it. I'm not a teacher.
— Cass McCombs
I think it's very painful, and that it's better not to have any doubts. I envy those who don't have any; I envy them a lot. They are happy people.
— Nathalie Sarraute
P.S. It's not schizophrenia, it's creativity, there is a difference. My voices go away after I let them tell their stories.
— Ashley Newell
There's an obvious romance to being the drinking writer. But if I'm drinking, I'm not writing.
— Liz Brixius
I'm not buying a boat because of writing skits.
— Jason Sudeikis
Write what you know. Write what you don't know. But most of all, write what you'd rather not know.
— Sam Lipsyte
If I were a better artist, I'd be a painter, and if I were a better writer, I'd write books.. but I'm not, so I draw cartoons!
— Charles M. Schulz
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Writing involves many [acts] tasks, not just generating text
— Paul J. Silvia
It's not easy to write a poem about a poem.
— Dejan Stojanovic
If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.
— Giacomo Casanova
I'm not into, Hey, what's your sign? or any of that. But I don't know how I got here, and I don't know how I write songs. I don't know why I breathe.
— Paul McCartney
You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it.
— Thomas Harris
I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.
— Aharon Appelfeld
It is very important to be reading as well as writing. A doctor is not going to ignore new surgery practices.
— Brandon Sanderson
Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
— Sinclair Lewis
I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write.
— Ellen Glasgow
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
— Salman Rushdie
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
Try not to write the parts that people skip.
— Elmore Leonard
I don't believe in that country any longer. I'm not interested. I'm writing in the language, and I like the language.
— Joseph Brodsky
You're not gonna start writing 'Hardy loves Miracle' all over your notebooks, are you? Sing her a song and post it on YouTube?
— M. Leighton
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
I do not want to have the feeling of writing 'for eternity', so to speak.
— Elfriede Jelinek
It is not a crime to commit First Degree Writing
— Temple Emmet Williams
Well, yes: people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them.
— Hans Christian Andersen
I don't write songs apart from theatrical pieces. I'm not interested in writing songs qua songs.
— Stephen Sondheim
Caesar's double-bed is warmAs an unimportant clerk
Writes i do not like my work
On a pink official form. — W. H. Auden
I'm not a great writer. I'm a great rewriter.
— Paddy Chayefsky
I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one.
— Winston Churchill
One is a writer, or one is not.
— Monique Wittig
When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
— Cesare Pavese
I say, flawless poems do not exist.
— Ymatruz
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No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Nothing, not love, not greed, not passion or hatred, is stronger than a writer's need to change another writer's copy.
— Arthur Evans
My mother was a journalist, so writing is not unnatural to me.
— Ginger Rogers
You can't reduce an actual human being; you're just writing! You're not doing anything to another person.
— Vivian Gornick
No it is not easy to write. It is as hard as breaking rocks. Sparks and splinters fly like shattered steel.
— Clarice Lispector
Not everyone gets to do what they love, be good at it, and get paid for it. If you do, you're lucky.
— Britt Holewinski
If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.
— Terry Brooks
Persistence can look a lot like stupid.
— Kristen Lamb