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The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A writer who writes more than he reads is an amateur.
— Harlan Ellison
The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them.
— Paul Johnson
When you are writing a novel, you aren't making it up. The story is already there. You just have to find it.
— Thomas Harris
Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life.
— James Norman Hall
The story is always better than your ability to write it.
— Robin McKinley
The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.
— Benjamin Franklin
For a living I write stuff that I know is gonna sell to a studio and make a lot of money at the multiplex.
— Robert Ben Garant
The last thing you want to do is write songs about being in a band.
— Matt Berninger
I don't think any man writing can worry about what the act of writing costs him, even though at times he is very aware of it.
— Robert Creeley
Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.
— Alice Walker
Readership is highly dependent upon format and distribution as much as it is on content.
— Sara Sheridan
To begin impatiently is the worst mistake a writer can make
— Antony Beevor
Writing music is always really helpful for me. It always reveals to me how I am feeling.
— Erika M. Anderson
Writing... is ... brave. You are brave.
— Patricia MacLachlan
I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being concious of living.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
As Jane Austen might have put it: It is a truth universally acknowledged that young protagonists in search of adventure must ditch their parents.
— Philip Pullman
Indeed, if "biology is chemistry with history," as somebody has said, then nature writing is biology with love.
— Edward Hoagland
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
— E.L. Doctorow
A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.
— Francis Bacon
One of the hardest parts of writing is writing from the gut or the heart or something like that rather than intellectually.
— George R R Martin
I wanted to write and think. Activism is a displacing kind of passion.
— Randall Robinson
Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down.
— John Steinbeck
Working 9 to 5 is structure. But tying lines together all hours of day is structure at its best performing magic.
— C.C. Wyatt
The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions.
— John Updike
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
— Salman Rushdie
No it is not easy to write. It is as hard as breaking rocks. Sparks and splinters fly like shattered steel.
— Clarice Lispector
There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting.
— Robert Graves
I love stand-up, but the process of writing is a little more lonely. I want to keep doing both, though.
— Jack Whitehall
People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard.
— David Walliams
It is very important to be reading as well as writing. A doctor is not going to ignore new surgery practices.
— Brandon Sanderson
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
For writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy, freedom.
— Joyce Carol Oates
The strongest should come first in comedy because once a character is really established as funny everything he does is funny.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.
— William Allingham
Writing is a compulsion
— Airam
Writing is the beast unto itself.
— Omar Epps
A doctorate study is the passion for extensive research, reading, thinking and writing.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Being an author is to have a toe in the creative pool and a foot in the vat of commerce.
— Fennel Hudson
No man, even though he be Shakespeare, can write perfectly when his web is woven of threads that have been spun in many lands.
— William Butler Yeats
Rejection is no badge of honour.
— Johnny Rich
The purpose of paragraphing is to give the reader a rest. The writer is saying ... : Have you got that? If so, I'll go to the next point.
— Henry Watson Fowler
The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it.
— Gabrielle Roy
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
Writing is a prayer.
— Franz Kafka
It is not a crime to commit First Degree Writing
— Temple Emmet Williams
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
Writing is a struggle no matter what the genre.
— Susan Wiggs
I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.
— Ted Dekker
The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
— Cesare Pavese
All of fiction is truthful. What you create is your own truth and no one can take that away or change it.
— Walter Dean Myers
Sometimes it is just about taking the first step, only then can greatness find us.
— Colleen Mariotti
My style of lyric-writing is very specific and has a lot of details, and I think people react most to that.
— Craig Finn
It is almost possible to measure a writer's skill by the dexterity with which he repeats, and yet avoids monotony.
— George G. Williams
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.
— Elvis Costello
To withhold words is power. But to share our words with others, openly and honestly, is also power.
— Terry Tempest Williams
Writers have to be tenacious to the point of being pathological. Rejection and criticism is assured.
— Mary Lawrence
Genetic code is a divine writing.
— Toba Beta
He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.
— George Orwell
The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more.
— Sara Sheridan
Writing is an art. A document is your canvas, words are your paint, and a keyboard is your paintbrush.
— Lizzy Grimm
The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done.
— Flannery O'Connor
All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs.
— Antonin Artaud
To write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a flag to the top of a mast in a raging gale.
— Virginia Woolf
Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.
— Jules Renard
After all this time I found that the novel is in fact punk rock.
— Craig Ferguson
The writings of leading ID proponents reveal that the designer postulated by their argument is the God of Christianity.
— John E. Jones III
For me, there is urgency in fiction, even though writing is, in itself, an act against the corrosiveness of time.
— Romesh Gunesekera
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
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
— Richard Bach
