Quotation Explorer - 'Writing'

Knowing that others want to read my writing is the greatest inspiration to write. - David Rose

Those who generate fog are Wizards of Oz hoping desperately that nobody pulls the curtain to reveal a trembling little writer behind it. This seldom happens. Readers who dare to point out that incomprehensible writing can't be comprehended risk being told that the problem is theirs. - Ralph Keyes

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. - Booker T. Washington

Writing is a form of running away. Running away to a place you made by your own hand. - Y.K. Raikou

Whenever I encounter writer’s block, I stop writing … with my hands; and I then start writing with my legs. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Writing is the delicate, difficult, and dangerous means of succeeding in avowing the unavowable. - Hélène Cixous

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. - E.L. Doctorow

In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway. - Junot Díaz

Writing to you like this is the same as saying your name when I've woken up late, feeling sick, tasting rot. It's pointless, but it happens. - Gwendoline Riley

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties."(Interview in Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Eighth Series, ed. George Plimpton, 1988) - John Irving

I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading. - Charles Kuralt

Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written. - George R.R. Martin

Painting a picture is writing a poem with paint. - Debasish Mridha

An author is similar to an actor. They play many characters in their lives—photographer, nurse, dancer, doctor, writer, etc. As an author, you have to learn your craft, know each and every element to become that character you’re writing about to be able to live and breathe what they do. - Mischa Temaul

Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. - Mark Twain

Why aren’t the thinks I’m thinking getting thunk on the page any faster?!? (from Stop Lying: Writing Is Hard on ChristopherLehman.com) - Christopher Lehman

However, the primary job of a servant of God is to speak or to write words to convict people of God's truth. So, in the speaking or in the writing of words, he witnesses for God. - Richard T. Ritenbaugh

Writing keeps death at bay. Every book I write is a triumph over death. ... If we did not know we’d die, we’d wander around and sleep like cats. - Ray Bradbury

Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses. - Stephen King

I've found myself moved by letters and diaries in archives as well as trashy, summer blockbusters. It's possible to make a connection with any kind of writing - as long as the writing is good. - Sara Sheridan

There are times when I'm writing where time feels irrelevant. Those are the moments I know I'm creating magic. - Anastasia Bolinder

One hasn't become a writer until one has distilled writing intoa habit, and that habit has been forced into an obsession.Writing has to be an obsession. It has to be something as organic,physiological and psychological as speaking or sleeping or eating. - Niyi Osundare

Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in which the self disappears; and the product's something that, though it may not be for everybody, is about everybody. - Richard Wilbur

Writing is Amazing!When I write I am empowered by my thoughts, entertained by my imagination, and enlightened by my wisdom. - Theresa Lewis

She held out a small voice recorder. 'By the way, could you describe exactly how you felt at the moment of impact? I'm writing this short story--''Put that away, Hazel,' hissed Mam. 'The poor boy is in pain.'Hazel persisted. 'Would that be a white-hot pain? Or more of a dull throbbing pain? - Eoin Colfer

Instead of writing my rules, I followed his. And that’s when I knew it all went wrong. - Dominic Riccitello

It's not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone with them. - Isabel Colegate

A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing. - Garrison Keillor

What do you want? What are you willing to give up to get it? Writing requires you make sacrifices. Be prepared to work hard to be a writer. - Sandra Brown

I've probably put my 10,000 hours into writing, but I believe writing well is also greatly influenced by certain intangibles like mood and inspiration. - Bill Loguidice

People will tell you that writing is too difficult, that it's impossible to get your work published, that you might as well hang yourself. Meanwhile, they'll keep writing and you'll have hanged yourself. - John Gardner

Don't think about the writing process too much. Just do one thing: tell the motherfucking story. - Don Roff

Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say. ~ - Sharon O'Brien

Writing is a solitary existence, especially if you forget to chat to your friends – sorry, I meant characters. - Carla H. Krueger

Imagination Is the 1st step to writing the sequel to your life. Dare to believe and you’re sure to receive. - Stanley Victor Paskavich

The best writing is rewriting. - E.B. White

The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do everyday. There are two reasons for this rule: Getting the work done and connecting with your unconscious mind. - Walter Mosley

Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it. - Toni Morrison

If I'm going to spend a lifetime writing my story, I want it to mean something. - Mari Serebrov

All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal. It's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. It's much more relaxing to actually write. - Fran Lebowitz

I am content when writing short stories. - Sarah Mazucci

Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day. - Ernest Hemingway

Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing. - William Faulkner

I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else. - Cormac McCarthy

Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted. - Jules Renard

Writing and achieving your goals is not failure, not having a goal to write in the first place is the start of failure. - Onyi Anyado

Fall makes me think that if I fail horribly at this art thing, and then fail horribly with this writing thing, I'll go run a pumpkin patch. - Tyler Hojberg

Not everyone will like what you write but there's a certain group who'll love what you write. Keep WRITING for them. - David Chuka

Writing is a gift to both the writer and the reader. - Cheryl Alleway

Writing is an art and a skill that can be developed - Bernard Kelvin Clive

Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind. - V.S. Pritchett

To me, making a tape is like writing a letter – there's a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again, and I wanted it to be a good one. - Nick Hornby

My passionate leisure pursuit are reading, wondering and writing. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean. - James Richardson

Television has raised writing to a new low. - Samuel Goldwyn

Report writing, like motor-car driving and love-making, is one of those activities which almost every Englishman thinks he can do well without instruction. The results are of course usually abominable.

I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man. - Franz Kafka

He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet. - Benjamin Disraeli

You are the Poem I dreamed of writing, the Masterpiece I longed to paint. You are the shining Star I reached for in my ever hopeful quest for life fulfilled. Yes, I am Blessed. - Oksana Rus

Writing fiction is fun. Writing non-fiction is life-changing. - A.D. Posey

The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think. - Edwin Schlossberg

Writing can be taught or learned in the vacuum. We must say to students in every area of knowledge: "This is a how other people have written about this subject. Read it; study it; think about it. You can do it too. - William Zinsser

Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse. - L. M. Montgomery

What is writing, after all, except fumbling in darkness endeavoring to light a candle? - Peggy Toney Horton

There are days when writing is within my power and a story unfolds along a course I've already chosen. And then there are days when the words breathe on their own and take me by the hand, leading me along unfathomed paths. Either way, the end result is this author's fairytale. - Richelle E. Goodrich

If you can read the book and say, ‘Space Marines, YEEEAAAHHH!’ That’s Military Science Fiction. (Brigham Young writing lecture, March 2012) - Brandon Sanderson

In matters of good-lookingness, we writers are the ugliest of the bunch, and normally our appearance is akin to that of someone investigating a crime scene; though the women in American writing keep producing world-class beauty in droves, and there are many breathtaking writers among them. - Pat Conroy

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from. - Anne Tyler

Writing is an abstract art of drawing pictures of the conscious and subconscious mind with words. - Debasish Mridha

A constant discomfort derives from this--writing these sentences, or any other for that matter--I am writing an ad for the war. With that, every utterance about freedom finishes. - Semezdin Mehmedinović

Writing is a sacred passion. - Lailah Gifty Akita

The spark of wondering is the start of writing. - Lailah Gifty Akita

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves. - Don Marquis

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

No one understands the lines you are writing, and after 25 years you are the only one that speakes that languge . - Adel Abouhana

I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty. - Richelle E. Goodrich

If we are exhorted to play simple melodies with beauty rather than difficult ones with error, the same should be applied to writing; simple words greater effect. - Sonia Rumzi

Writing is a solitary occupation. - Bernard Cornwell

I could not think without writing. - Jean Piaget

Writing is just building a new world – one character, one place, one maniac at a time. - Carla H. Krueger

Write at a pace that doesn't surpass your creative flow. Don't be hasty; don't be sloppy. Don't forfeit impressive writing for an impressive word count. Because eventually it will all have to be edited, and you'll find that it is harder to make bad writing good than to make good writing better. - Richelle E. Goodrich

If your life is worth thinking about,it is worth writing about. - Robin S. Sharma

It’s about the possibility, or otherwise, of meaning in the world. And the possibility, or otherwise, of writing. And the possibility, or otherwise, of the resolution of everything into some coherent, cogent vision. - Tom McCarthy

A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream. - Gaston Bachelard

You may not want to hear that or think of it as writing, but I’m telling you that the moving of information is a literary act in and of itself. Even when people aren’t reading it. - Kenneth Goldsmith

If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another. - John Steinbeck

Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. - Gene Fowler

Writing is turning life's worst moments into money. - J.P. Donleavy

The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. - Robert Cormier

Success in writing occurs when your dreams are bigger than your excuses. - T.N. Suarez

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar. - E.B. White

When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time. - Lady Gaga

Easy reading is damn hard writing. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Writing is so much more productive when it is set on fire, for then and only then can you feel the passion spewing forth from the writer’s heart. - Jennifer Megan Varnadore

In terms of language, there were no separate words for female genitalia for thousands of years. That was mostly because women were considered pretty much the same as men, only of course flimsier, more poorly designed, and incapable of writing in the snow. - Elissa Stein and Susan Kim

If writing didn't require thinking then we'd all be doing it. - Jeremiah Laabs

Through writing, an author opens the window of his heart through which a reader can see the inner self of the author. - Debasish Mridha

we are writing our own ‪#‎karma‬! I mean my test cases - ahkeno

I really think that writing about sex is writing about the mind. - Jane DeLynn

A miracle is when you take action on your written goal, and work hard to create it. Transform your dreams into reality, by writing your goals, taking action and making them happen. This is the short recipe for top success. - Mark F. LaMoure

The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. - Raymond Chandler

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another. - Mao Tse-tung

Writing means being a fascinated slave to current events. - Allan Gurganus

Writing is the light of imagination playing over shadow of thoughts. - Khaled Talib

Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind. - Winston S. Churchill

Writing is not a profession, occupation or job; it is not a way of life: it is a comprehensive response to life. - Gregory McDonald

Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up. - Jane Yolen

When I'm writing, I'm waiting to see somebody, and I'm waiting to hear them. It's almost like conjuring spirits out of the air, using your own imaginative instability. - Charles Baxter

Writers say two things that strike me as nonsense. One is that you must follow an absolute schedule everyday. If you're not writing well, why continue it? I just don't think this grinding away is useful. - Edmund White

Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth. - Paula Danziger

Writing is a form of art. Do not use New Times Roman or Arial because it's boring and hackneyed. - Natalya Vorobyova

When writing a novel that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.' - Neil Gaiman

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress truth. - Wole Soyinks

A person with his good writing can make some earning, but if he seems to be enjoying luxury living then probably it's time for all to see the intention of the people behind his promotion. - Anuj Somany

When the door to my writing chamber gasps shut and the almost imperceptible sigh of a rose petal falls on my desk, I know that my muse is present. - Brandi L. Bates

Writing a book is a blood sport. If it doesn't hurt when you're done, you're probably doing something wrong. - Kevis Hendrickson

Wondering leads to writing. - Lailah Gifty Akita

I am writing history, and I can't be there. - Jay Mark D. Saga-ad

In writing, the point is not to manifest or exalt the act of writing, nor is it to pin a subject within language; it is, rather, a question of creating a space into which the writing subject constantly disappears. - Michel Foucault

They say living well is the best revenge but sometimes writing well is even better. - James Franco

Writing is...creating tattoos which are invisible, under your skin - Suzy Davies

Writing to corroborate what you already think is the essence of bad writing. - Victor LaValle

You thought I was writing The Truth? Honey, I don't even know what The Truth means. - Hugh Elliott

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done. - Steven Wright

It all comes down to the written word and just how comfortable I am writing them. - C.F. Heller

Good writing is more about graft and craft than inspiration and aspiration. - Johnny Rich

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are rotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing. - Benjamin Franklin

We will need to find people who will provide a safe writing space for us, where criticism comes late and love and delight come early.—from Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing - L.L. Barkat

Productive writing begins from understanding the idea. - Chidiebere Prosper Agbugba

Thank God For Writing, As Now I Can Work Until My Last Breath! - Latif Mercado

My hobbies are reading, writing, listening to music and dancing. - Lailah Gifty Akita

People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it. - Veronica Roth

I'll be writing as long as I can hold a pen in my curled, crimped arthritic hands and then I'll dictate it, if it comes to that. They'll have to pry my pen out of my cold, dead fingers - and even then, I'll fight 'em for it. Guaranteed. - Wanda Lea Brayton

Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing. - Laurence J. Peter

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. - Hermann Hesse

When I get tired of new clunky writing, I resort to old fashioned story tellers, like Wilkie Collins. - Sonia Rumzi

Panicky despair is an underrated element of writing. - Dave Barry

will you be the one reading the book or writing the book - Abe

When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech-one does not, at least, hear how inadequate the words are. - George Eliot

I think of rounds of editing as hammer time. Then, when they interrupt my writing, I can say... *shakes head* Nah, I just can't do it. Although when I come across a brilliant line, I do think, Can't touch this. And when I'm worried I'm overwriting a scene, I think, Hammer, don't hurt 'em. - Brent Weeks

Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man wants to make a million dollars, the the best way would be to start his own religion. - L. Ron Hubbard

I'm not into writing many more books or more pages. My goal is to increase the value of each sentence I write. And for that, I have to just erase my past and bring only forward what matches the new me, things I can easily rewrite and adapt to my new perspective. - Robin Sacredfire

So here I am with this double life, one where my grammatically incorrect writing is a nice success with tens of thousands of readers, and another one where my carefully written books are read by a dozen people. - Christian A. Dumais

nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing. - Charles Bukowski

Writing is like a lump of coal. Put it under enough pressure and polish it enough and you might just end up with a diamond. Otherwise, you can burn it to keep warm. - A.J. Dalton

Every writer I know has trouble writing. - Joseph Heller

What’s the use of writing poetry for your peers? I don’t think I should sell my poetry to other poets. If that’s who my audience is, I’m dead, I’m not going to make any money. - Harley King

I would say about 80% of my writing (including posts and blogs), has to do with unresolved anger and that's just fine with me - Lori Lesko

So much of a novelist’s writing … takes place in the unconscious: in those depths the last word is written before the word appears on paper. We remember the details of our story, we do not invent them. - Graham Greene

There are very few innocent sentences in writing. - David Foster Wallace

Writer's block? I've heard of this. This is when a writer cannot write, yes? Then that person isn't a writer anymore. I'm sorry, but the job is getting up in the fucking morning and writing for a living. - Warren Ellis

Sometimes it's better for a struggling writer to stay single, than to keep hearing, "Oh, your a writer, and you need to spend time in writing? Then go marry your writing! - Anthony Liccione

Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other's work as someone working in the same genre. - Sara Sheridan

When you're writing, you're creating something out of nothing ... A successful piece of writing is like doing a successful piece of magic."[As quoted on WritersServices, 6 March 2012] - Susanna Clarke

In writing, you must kill all your darlings. - William Faulkner

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. - Robert A. Heinlein

The speaking of writing is more effective than speaking. - Sanaullah sahil

It's the first thing I tell my students: If you could understand, really understand, that no one needs to read your work, then your writing would improve vastly by the time we meet in this classroom again. - Dan Barden

Authors always carry a means for scribbling and an excuse for pausing, often inopportunely, to record those fleeting sparks of creative fancy that might otherwise vanish like a wisp in the wind if ignored. Writing is a jealous and needy lover. - Richelle E. Goodrich

You, man must write exactly as everything rushes into your head and AT ONCE. The pain of writing is just that... - Jack Kerouac

The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing. - John Green

That isn't writing at all, it's typing. - Truman Capote

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions. - James A. Michener

Writing is a dog’s life, but the only one worth living. - Gustave Flaubert

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence. - Alice Walker

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior. - Christina Baldwin

We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press. - Sara Sheridan

I've always felt that good writing does not have to be literary. - Sara Sheridan

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth reading or do things worth the writing. - Benjamin Franklin

I personally believe that one learns to write by writing. - Jack Jordan

I won't stop writing until I am known as the Kurt Cobain of literature! - Christina Westover

Yes, writing comes easy for me and it's also a painful, arduous process. I love writing. I hate writing. I never want to write again, and I want to write all day, everyday. - Tyrone Jaeger

Wondering and writing constitute positive madness. - Lailah Gifty Akita

One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table. - Gustave Flaubert

My writing, it’s my way of making sense of everything. My way to feel whole. May I never be complete and may I never feel content – please, let me always have the need, always have the urge to write. - Charlotte Eriksson

Writing like this is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so glad you did it. - Anne Lamott

Writing poetry is a state of free float - Margaret Atwood

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. - Thomas Mann

The ultimate goal of writing is forgiveness. - Katerina Stoykova Klemer

Writing fulfils an insatiable drive. Finishing the story satisfies my thirst. But I must keep drinking until the story quenches a buyer. - Ace Antonio Hall

I have been writing now for over a week. I find it cleansing, refreshing; it is good for me. (p.531) - Storm Constantine

Writing a story, regardless of length, begins always with a single word. - Don Roff

My plan is to continue teaching many more years than the 32 years I've already enjoyed and continue writing, and promoting my books and websites if it's God will. - Ana Monnar

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. - W. Somerset Maugham

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it. - Ernest Hemingway

With my sometimes blunt indecent vocabulary & very vivid imagination, I wonder if I should be writing "other" kinds of content. - April Mae Monterrosa

Sometimes writing everyday is like pulling teeth, painful, but necessary. - Wendy Swore

Storytelling is a gift, but writing is a learned art. - Beem Weeks

I never said you had to like it. You have to accept it. No regret." - Clare Harding From the current book in writing BUMPKIN by . - Lani Brown

You can't be a good writer in the States anymore because to be a good one you have to have a country where you can be poor and still eat, and still make your living standard secondary to your writing. Thoreau himself couldn't do that in the States today. - Nelson Algren

I am writing something very simple that will change you and change the world. - Debasish Mridha

For what is writing besides capturing thoughts that belong to all of us, so that we can recognize ourselves, undestand ourselves, and perhaps, each other. Every thoughtful book about love makes us better lovers, I think. It opens the gates of perception. - Janet Fitch

Writing is life – it’s where my heart leads me each day, and how I understand the world we live in. - Phen Weston

You're writing every moment in your mind but not putting it down on paper. Write your thoughts; it will be beautiful. - Debasish Mridha

Writing is a lonely business, which if allowed publicity and socializing it might deteriorate. Supportive people understand the need of a writer to withdraw to the solitude of oneself. - Gloria D. Gonsalves

Were most of your stars out? Were you busy writing your heart out? - J.D. Salinger

Every day we live, we are writing our own secret book. - Chrys Fey

Writing is the only thing that makes me feel alive. - Mary Sage Nguyen

Eugenics has always been the escape valve of single payer socialized medicine. Havelock Ellis was writing about them as one and the same prior to the fin-de-siecle. Culling out of control population growth and the economic drain of the incurably sick has always been a part of socialized medicine. - A.E. Samaan

I gave up worrying about the principles of fiction writing when I realized that there weren't any. - Teri Louise Kelly

Having writers block sucks more than my actual writing. And my writing would be astonishing if I could write how I feel. - Ally Spina

I’ve always had a vivid imagination in terms of storytelling, but thankfully I learned early on that imagination can be stifled or enhanced by one’s writing ability—what I call word work. My goal from then on was to make sure my writing skills were up to speed with my imagination. - Marvin Brown

Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.

Writing my own novels in the '90s...I never imagined that in ten years, science and rationality would require explanation and defense in a world rocked and ruled by religious fervor. - Mary Doria Russell

For me, writing isn't about money and fame. It's about passion, an art form that I want to share with the world, expand the horizons to new worlds, new experiences, and new adventures. - Jason W. Blair

Remember that writing is translation, and the opus to be translated is yourself. - E.B. White

If you’re going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the ideas will come. You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow. - Louis L’Amour

Life was not to be sitting in hot amorphic leisure in my backyard idly writing or not writing, as the spirit moved me. It was, instead, running madly, in a crowded schedule, in a squirrel cage of busy people. Working, living, dancing, dreaming, talking, kissing- singing, laughing, learning. - Sylvia Plath

There is only one rule for writing and that is go ahead and start writing. - Debasish Mridha

I cannot bear natural light when I'm writing. - Stephen Fry

I am really Chloe Anthony Wofford. That's who I am. I have been writing under this other person's name. I write some things now as Chloe Wofford, private things. I regret having called myself when I published my first novel, The Bluest Eye. - Toni Morrison

I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not. - Fannie Hurst

Writer's Block is just an excuse by people who don't write for not writing. - Giando Sigurani

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic. - Carl Sagan

A Piece of writing has to seduce the reader, it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust - Po Bronson

There is creative reading as well as creative writing. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is an awesome tragedy in this life that, when asking what a person is and they reply doctor or lawyer or engineer, we don't say "Well thats a nice little hobby, but why don't you take up writing or painting or music? - D.A. Botta

In writing, as in life, its not the big words that are the problem its the little minds that read them. - rassool jibraeel snyman

Not writing is never an option. This is not words of advice. It's just literally never an option! - Lillian R. Melendez

Do you suffer when you write? I don't at all. Suffer like a bastard when don't write, or just before, and feel empty and fucked out afterwards. But never feel as good as while writing. - Ernest Hemingway

Never put off writing until you are better at it. - Gary Henderson

If you only enjoy the journey of writing, that's reward enough. - Deray Ogden

When writing feels like jumping a cliff, grab the nearest pen! - Susan J. McIntire

Speech is the body part of thinking, the voice of the mind. Writing is the blood and mind mixing to speak through the fingers, through the hands. - Lenora Champagne

For me, all writing -- storytelling and style -- gets back to the Bible, Twain and Hemingway, and not in that order. - Dennis R. Miller

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making. - John Milton

I know, not everyone will like what I write, but writing is not about trying to please everybody. - E.A. Bucchianeri

Writing is the only way to run away from home, without ever leaving. - Shannon L. Alder

Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college. - Kurt Vonnegut

I don't believe in writer's block. Who can function working seven days a week at at job. It's the same with writing. Take a break and let the words come to you. It rarely comes if you force it and if it does, you'll probably regret what you wrote down on paper. - Lillian R. Melendez

Writing is a dying form. One reads of this every day. - Lemony Snicket

It's easier to revise lousy writing than to revise a blank sheet of paper. - S.A. Bodeen

Writing and art are my lovers - Edna Stewart

You’re writing someone’s ‘future’ favorite book. - M. Kirin

All writing is rewriting. - John Green

Writing is my passion and burns in me like a fire. I'm always writing and honing my skills to feed the flames. - Gabriela M. Sanchez

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing. - Benjamin Franklin

I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away. - Mark Haddon

Yet I am not writing with ordinary ink, but with red blood that dripsfrom my heart. All its wounds long scarred over have opened and itthrobs and hurts, and now and then a tear falls on the paper. - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Before You Begin Writing Your Book, Ask Yourself A Very Important Question: What Kind of Results Do I Plan To Receive From Writing This Book? If You Say Money, Then Don't Bother Even Writing The Book. - Chris Mentillo

Writing is a manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe. - John Gregory Dunne

Write about fear. Write about pain. Write about heartache and resentment. Nothing worth reading comes from writing what can be said out loud. - Alexandra Cruz

Writing is the flip side of sex - it's only good when it's over. - Hunter S. Thompson

Writing is the dancing of the mind on a stage called paper. - Debasish Mridha

When a day goes by and I haven't written anything, I better have been doing something worth writing about. - P.S. Bartlett

The most difficult thing about writing; is writing the first line. - Amit Kalantri

it's doesn't matter how long you spend the time writing words , the only thing that matter , is for how long your words will have an influence on their reader . - Mahdi Khmili

I like how writing can take you off for a jaunt in your head and then set you back down in the chair where you've been all along. - Georgann Low

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

I don’t know who you are or where you are, but I know your deep driving desires. I am writing to you to make your life a little easier and better. - Debasish Mridha

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. - Thelonious Monk

A true piece of writing sets you free. - A.D. Posey

The curly red lines across the African deserts had the fascination of a magnet, and I hoped fervently that the pioneers who were writing their names over the blank spaces, would leave just one small desert for me. - Rosita Forbes

If you're not writing, you're wronging. - Kevin James Breaux

Writing is perhaps the best way of de-stressing, but if done with an adulteration of the feelings and/or with an expectation of an appreciation then it only and eventually leads to frustration. - Anuj Somany

...there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing. - Markus Zusak

When someone gives you advice, just ask them to give it in writing and they will either keep mum or will run from there. - Amit Kalantri

Writing a book isn't just about 'writing a book.' Unfortunately, it's about selling it, and getting it out to the masses. - Dr Margaret Aranda

Commercial fiction writing – where my bread is buttered – is fairly straightforward. The writing is simply efficiency and story. The more you have of one the less you need of the other. - Joe Ducie

I find that writing is as magical as the genre I write in. When the story comes alive and takes over, it's truly a journey to another world. - K.M. Randall

Just tell the truth, and they'll accuse you of writing black humor. - Charles Willeford

I learn my world through writing. - Charlotte Eriksson

Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem. - Kahlil Gibran

Some days I wonder if I stopped writing about him, if I’d love him a little less. - Dominic Riccitello

The funniest thing people say to me: "I wish I had your life". Hello! I make a living writing about it. - Daniel Marques

Writing Cave means it's Coffee O'Clock...Who am I kidding? It's always Coffee O'Clock! - Tammy-Louise Wilkins

Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think. - Sara Sheridan

Each write the story of your life, so try writing the best you can. - Kat Unda

Our parents are the coolest parents ever. No other generation went on from writing letters to their own parents to sending snapchats to their own kids. - Sharad Vivek Sagar

For me, writing is just as much a choice as breathing. I can quit anytime I want, but not starting again would prove fatal. - Pamela Morris

I'm a drinker with writing problems. - Brendan Behan

Writing is not just a process of creation. It is also a process of self-discovery - Cristina Istrati

Writing exacerbates a wound. - Marty Rubin

I am writing just to inspire you, encourage you, empower you, and give you hope when you are fighting your life's battle. - Debasish Mridha

Sometimes it's impossible to say certain things ... Writing is something needed by man to share experience. - Arnošt Lustig

I'm considering writing a self-help book and giving people 20 cents to read it. This way, I can be sure they all get new paradigms. - Ryan Lilly

Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped sentences. In your voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your heart, your soul. - Meg Rosoff

If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work. - Russell Banks

Day after day, week after week; writing great fiction takes time, emotion, skill and effort. - Carla H. Krueger

It's not about the writing. It's about the feelings behind the words.

Writing historical fiction has many common traits with writing sci-fi or fantasy books. The past is another country - a very different world - and historical readers want to see, smell and touch what it was like living there. - Sara Sheridan

No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake.... - Alexander Trocchi

When you begin a new story, your job is to envision, to try to glimpse stuff that doesn't as yet exist. That's what writing is, going out to meet the ghosts of the future. Not out of the past, not the ones that are dead and buried. Ghosts of the future, those who don't exist yet. - Cédric Klapisch (screenplay writer); spoken by Xavier Rousseau in Casse-tête Chinois (Chinese Puzzle

Writing is prayer. - Franz Kafka

A doctorate study is the passion for extensive research, reading, thinking and writing. - Lailah Gifty Akita

No matter how different you are, your idea is, your art, your writing, your product, your concept, show it to the world. Just do it. Show who you are to the world. This is what you are here to do. - Eileen Anglin

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it. - Anaïs Nin

Writing is both mask and unveiling. - E.B. White

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do. - Elvis Costello

Writing may or may not be your salvation; it might or might not be your destiny. But that does not matter. What matters right now are the words, one after another. Find the next word. Write it down. - Neil Gaiman

If you write then you are reborn because by writing about the moment, you can relive it for a second time. - Kamand Kojouri

PROOF-READER, n. A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible. - Ambrose Bierce

I can't believe it! Reading and writing actually paid off! - Matt Groening

I love my style of writing. Nope, it's not the most poetic stuff you've ever read but you know, it can evoke emotions and images and smells and sensations, and that is what I set out to do. - Erin M. Truesdale

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice. - Cyril Connolly

Writing is a great way of talking with an endless audience for never-ending time. - Debasish Mridha

There is nothing more valuable in the writing process than a friend to hold you accountable to your own potential. - J.R. Young

My hunger for writing will die when I have bled for the humans that never found the strength to find the words themselves - Christopher Poindexter

The longer the wondering, the longer the writing. - Lailah Gifty Akita

I’ve realized the most effective writing and living are done when we are willing to be vulnerable. I think we spend most of our lives trying to cover up our insecurities. - Katie Kiesler

Reading books is a way for you to communicate with and learn from the best thinkers that are writing today and that have ever lived. - Joshua Rogers

Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else. - Gloria Steinem

Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing. - Isaac Bashevis Singer

AuthorZoom- You do the writing, let us do the rest. - Christopher Seufert

You get a confident: "Can Do Attitude," by practicing to be excellent. Since you earn success by being determined, higher willpower is also earned, too. Raise yourself to excellence by writing your goals and working hard on them. Drive yourself to success. - Mark F. LaMoure

It is the kernel of truth in every story that makes its writing beautiful beyond standards. - Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

It has taken me years of struggle, hard work, and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence. - Isadora Duncan

No instance exists of a person's writing two languages perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth. - Thomas Jefferson

Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine -- how good how fine. It went down all pulpy, slushy, oozy, all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large, beautified Strawberry. - John Keats

Writing is a product of silence. - Carrie Latet

There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. - W. Somerset Maugham

In my more rebellious days I tried to doubt the existence of the sacred, but the universe kept dancing and life kept writing poetry across my life. (Beyond Religion, p. 81) - David N. Elkins

The places and people in the following stories have been represented accurately to the best of my ability; yet my writing is supposed to be a tale, and as in any historical novel, my own imagination has blended with fact to create poetical reality. - Eric Sloane

The difference between a novelist and someone who tinkers around with writing is this: novelists finish their books. - Nancy Etchemendy

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good. - Thomas a Kempis

You never finish writing a novel, you eventually abandon it. - Tom Winton

Sometimes, as much as writing saves one’s own life, you cannot imagine how it will save another’s. This is another reason why it is important to do the work, over and over again. It is food, the kind a soul needs. - Lilith Saintcrow

Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility. - Katherine Paterson

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a happy bunch of chuckleheads. - William Styron

Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself. - Franz Kafka

Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it."[Thoughts from Places: The Tour, Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012] - John Green

I believe writing is a gift God gave us to share His thoughts poured out upon us! Writing is a talent needing care and comfort; open up and let the Lord inspire you! - Mary Kate

I know have lived, so many times, that the only thing I have left to remember is my writing, cause every single moment in life it's already written. - Piroska Rodriguez

She decided to free herself, dance into the wind, create a new language. And birds fluttered around her, writing yes in the sky. - Monique Duval

The art of writing involves making as many cups of tea as you can in the time available for writing. Then adding extra time for writing... - Alan Dapre

Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either. - Meg Cabot

Yeah, I know what your English Professor tried to tell you. But if your English Professor could make a living writing fiction, they would have been doing it. - Dean Wesley Smith

On having a backup plan: "Always a good plan anytime you want to follow your dream - I love writing, acting, and psychiatry - there are crazy people everywhere which means I can take my career anywhere my dream needs to go. - Samantha Steele

Writing blooms flowers for mind, which last forever. - Debasish Mridha

Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them. - John Steinbeck

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why. - James Joyce

There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you. - Beatrix Potter

With poetry and writing, the question isn’t do you know the right words?.The real question is, can you make words from the unwordable, chisel blocks of raw silence into shapes and touch our souls? - Jacob Nordby

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem, or saying a prayer. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin. - Stanislaw J. Lec

A writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway. - Junot Diaz

Writing is my passion. It’s in my blood like a talent is. Like dancing, or singing, or drawing, I write. I can never stop writing. It helps me to express everything I’m afraid to talk about out loud when I need to say it the most. It’s my pacifier in a way... - Melissa C. Hamilton

I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book - that one book every writer carries within him - the image of his own soul. - Ignazio Silone

Writing is something you Do and not discuss. Talk is cheap, wishes are free and a fool is included with every purchase. So spend your time wisely. - Jaime Reed

Most times, my mind is just an ongoing, present-tense, first-person monologue. It's like I'm writing a novel, constantly, but only in my brain. - Andrew Shaffer

Cry while writing it, and readers will cry while reading it. - A.D. Posey

I didn't lie--I was writing fiction in my mouth.

It's often about the simple things, isn't it? Painting and photography are first about seeing, they say. Writing is about observing. Technique is secondary. Sometimes the simple is the most difficult. - Linda Olsson

By writing quotes...I mark a trail of my soul's journey in this realm. - Toba Beta

To be a writer - write! To be an author - publish! To be a bestselling author - never stop writing! - David Maxwell

I dream that one day I would be a published writer and people would read my books - if not, I would be living in the mountains in a small hut, near a pond where swans swim, writing a diary for myself. - Srinidhi.R

I often fear to talk so occasionally I express my opinions and my love in writing. - Debasish Mridha

Let your writing liberate you. Write with passion to allow your feelings to breathe and enjoy the journey across blank pages. - Amitav Chowdhury

I always tell my writing students that every good piece of writing begins with both a mystery and a love story. And that every single sentence must be a poem. And that economy is the key to all good writing. And that every character has to have a secret. - Silas House

You can make anything by writing. - C.S. Lewis

It's a symbiotic process, writing. What I am makes the books—not part of me, all of me—and then the books themselves inform the sense of what I am. So the more I can be, the better the books will be. - Jeanette Winterson

There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry. - Henry Miller

I have never thought of writing as hard work, but I have worked hard to find a voice. - Randy Pausch

When I'm writing I don't want anyone else in the room - including myself. - Jonathan Franzen

But what am I to do? I must have some drug, and reading isn't a strong enough drug now. By writing it all down (all? - no: one thought in a hundred) I believe I get a little outside it. That's how I'd defend it to H. But ten to one she'd see a hole in the defence. - C.S. Lewis

In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning. - George Orwell

Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery. - Joe Haldeman

It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones. - Ray Bradbury

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer. - Doris Lessing

The brain is like a muscle; books are the diet and writing is the workout. - Stewart Stafford

The novel we sit down to write, and the one we end up writing may be very different, just as the Jesus we grasp and the Jesus who grasps us may also differ. - Madeleine L'Engle

It is said that you can't write without a reader. The opposite holds true as well; you can't read without a writer. But if as a single, creative person you are one in the same, then, well.....problem solved! Great writing is born from that which we personally long to read. - Richelle E. Goodrich

Writing is the Art, re-writing the craft. - O'Brien Browne

With acting, you gotta wait until someone gives you a role in a play or movie. With writing, you're not dependent on others, you don't have to wait. You can sit down and just create. - Donal Logue

I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort. - Toni Morrison

You either have to write or you shouldn't be writing. That's all. - Joss Whedon

You know you’re writing well when you’re throwing good stuff into the wastebasket. - Ernest Hemingway

Writing is more than just a method to tell stories. It’s a way to find healing, and to healing others. - M. Kirin

The key to good writing is to leave Boo Radley in the house until the end of the story. - Michael P. Naughton

For me, writing is exploration; and most of the time, I'm surprised where the journey takes me. - Jack Dann

The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't. - Iain M. Banks

Yes, writing is that easy. Yes, writing is that hard. But if you want to do it you can. Only you can stop you. - R.M. Donaldson

Writing a novel is like traveling the universe on foot. - Dennis R. Miller

There isn't much art to writing, you just feel; feel everything deeply and somehow transform your lessons into a magical piece of work that will help someone else's heartache. - Nikki Rowe

When writing the constitution for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, John Adams wrote:I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading. - John Adams

Writing well means never having to say, "I guess you had to be there. - Jef Mallett

He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish. - Jack London

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing. - Isaac Disraeli

You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write. - Annie Proulx

To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you. - Michelle Richmond

Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never! - Edna Ferber

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning and inhibit clarity. - Bill Watterson

Sure, it's simple writing for kids…just as simple as bringing them up. - Ursula K. Le Guin

History, writing, infect after a time a man's sense of himself... - A.S. Byatt

Novel writing is World Building & Word Weaving (Neil Postman's terms). - J.M. Varner

If you haven't cried at least once while writing a chapter of your inspirational book, then you have to ask yourself if your're writing fiction. - Shannon L. Alder

Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process. - Isabel Allende

Writing is a process of creating yourself again and again for an ever-searching mind. - Debasish Mridha

Writing gives me wings. - Ama H. Vanniarachchy

My greatest qualification for writing fiction was my ability, as a child, to lie with a straight face. - Ashwin Sanghi

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth. - Khaled Hosseini

Writing a novel is agony. - George Orwell

It's often a matter of sitting in front of the computer and worrying. It's what writing comes down to--worrying that things aren't going to work out. - Khaled Hosseini

Writing is something I do everyday. If I waited for inspiration, I’d never get anything done. - Lawrence C. Connolly

Make your writing memorable. - A.D. Posey

The grace of writing is upon me.I love writing. I write daily. - Lailah Gifty Akita

The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering. - Tom Waits

Writing is like making jewelry -jeweler doesn't make a diamond, he polishes and cuts it, but the gem is from God. - Bela Abel

... And the only way to find that honesty is to not overthink it.For your writing to come alive--to be multi-dimensional--you must barter away some control. - Elizabeth Sims

My mother had always taught me to write about my feelings instead of sharing really personal things with others, so I spent many evenings writing in my diary, eating everything in the kitchen and waiting for Mr. Wrong to call. - Cathy Guisewite

If the people could be awakened to their senses by mere preaching or writing, then probably no person would be smoking upon seeing the statutory warning on cigarette packets. - Anuj Somany

I never feel really comfortable unless I am either actually writing or have a story going. I could not stop writing. - P.G. Wodehouse

Writing isn't only about a completed piece of work.It’s about the writer you’re becoming while creating - T.N. Suarez

But then, that’s the beauty of writing stories—each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And when you find that reason and that shape, there’s no feeling like it."[Peter Wild Interviews TC Boyle, 3:AM Magazine, June 2003] - T.C. Boyle

I could write novels about her forever. Maybe when I die I will end up in the poem with her writing more poems about our times together. The Diary - Jeremy Limn

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love. - Ernest Hemingway

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. - Ernest Hemingway

If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces. - Paul Fussell

I would rather never make a penny on book sales and know that many had derived some fair pleasure from my writing, than to know that very few had ever taken a chance on my work. I certainly won't last forever, but I'd love to think that my imagination will continue to surface in the minds of others. - Eric Diehl

You can't think yourself out of a writing block, you have to write yourself out of a thinking block. - John Rogers

...there were certain chapters when I stopped writing, saw the domestic situation I was in and thought, "I don't want to face this world, let's get back to the hellish one I'm imagining. - Alasdair Gray

Entangled cobwebs of my mind keep me awake at night! Need to get back to sm serious writing again! - Deeba Salim Irfan

I thought about writing the character as male, but then I would be forced to portray him as a woman in a man's body. - Christopher Stocking

Writing starts with living.—Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing - L.L. Barkat

I’ve always said, ‘I have nothing to say, only to add.’ And it’s with each addition that the writing gets done. The first draft of anything is really just a track. - Gore Vidal

While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism. - Tiffany Madison

There is more to writing than playing with words. - Marty Rubin

The best writing is embarrassing; that’s all there is to it. - A.D. Posey

sometimes i am not sure.if i am writing the poemor the poemis writing me. - Sanober Khan

Writing is not about the voices in your head, but the voices that make the great leap to the page. - J.H. Glaze

Real-life duties eat valuable writing time. - Rayne Hall

I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell. - William Styron

The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing. - Alan Dean Foster

Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking. - Horace

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins commited in previous lives. - James Joyce

If you schlep a shit job everyday, keep and feed a little secret life--whether it's writing, art, running, music, your thoughts. It's yours. - Don Roff

If I could split myself into five people, I would still be behind on my writing schedule. I see now why James Patterson cloned himself so many times. - Peter James West

Writing is my passion, not my job. I need to write as much as I need to breathe, if not more. - A.E. Croft

I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose. - Ludwig van Beethoven

Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother's generation. - Sara Sheridan

Writing is hard work, not magic. It begins with deciding why you are writing and whom you are writing for. What is your intent? What do you want the reader to get out of it? What do you want to get out of it. It's also about making a serious time commitment and getting the project done. - Suze Orman

Writing is the easiest way to escape from the real world. - Anna Jean Ouellette

Reading sparks writing. - A.D. Posey

One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke. - Mark Twain

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

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary. - J.K. Rowling

One of the things I love about labeling myself as an author is that I can read books and call it "researching writing styles."-- - Mike Mankoff

There is a difference between a poem and a writing incrusted with a feel of Poetry to fall within range - Mpho Leteng

She was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same-you couldn't just soak it up then squeeze it out again. - David Nicholls

I'm not just building a foundation or a house with the bricks people throw at me. I'm building entire worlds. it's called writing. - Tracy Millosovich

Stick to what you know and always be true to yourself. If you do that, your writing will be true, also. - Ashley Chunell

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write. - Hugh Prather

Writing the next lines and words of your life is something only you can do. We write our own stories. - Kim Pape

In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles. Writers who have neither product utopian trash.

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it. - David Sedaris

There is a point at which honesty becomes mischief. That's when your writing becomes irresistible. - Daphne Athas

Writing your own quotes is like you started writing your history. - Evan Ricafort

Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself. - Bill Moyers

For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they're best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish - we're famous for travelling in search of adventure. - Sara Sheridan

Restrictions and writing shouldn't mix. Let your mind be open. Let it be a creative canvas. - Lauren Hammond

Ideas are cheap. Writing them into a freakin' 90k word novel is the hard part. - Ellie Ann

You will always find me writing and reading as long as I have the breath of life within me. - K.D. Green

Writing is the dancing of words, sometimes it is beautiful and meaningful, sometimes it is not. - Debasish Mridha

If you can still write in spite of the fact that you're not getting paid, that nobody cares about what you're writing, that nobody wants to publish it, that everybody is telling you to do something else, and you still want to and you still enjoy it and you can't stop doing it...then you're a writer. - Joanne Harris

One of the things I learned about writing a memoir is you can’t drag the reader through everything. Every human life is worth 20 memoirs. - Andre Dubus III

Writing is a calling, not a choice. - Isabel Allende

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once. - Cyril Connolly

Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about. - Octavia E. Butler

When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing. - Enrique Jardiel Poncela

You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you are not a reader, don't even think about being a writer. - Jean M. Auel

Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul. - Richard Flanagan

The more I write the more I learn about writing. It is easy to say what looks good or sound good on paper until you experience it for yourself. - Jeanette Michelle

People are writing post-apocalyptic fiction like there's no tomorrow! - Cassandra Page

Writing is new, relatively speaking. Story telling is ancient. Tell your story first putting aside all other worries. Leave fretting over homonyms, semicolons, and Oxford commas to editors and friends you can be bribe with baking. - Ada Maria Soto

The day when on the cover of my books, my name will appear in bigger font than the title of my book- I will stop writing because that would be the death of the writer in me. - Kirtida Gautam

Writing is mostly a case of mood management. The emotion you have is not absolute, it is temporary. It may be useful, but it is not the truth. It is not you. - Anne Enright

True writing is not an art or science but it's an anthem to preach own soul - Kunal Jajal

In this world where I sit at my desk writing these words, people die, they pass on, people are mortal. In the cyber world we inhabit they do not. - Aysha Taryam

Writing is pure sweet freedom. - J. Hale Turner

My whole theory of writing I can sum up in one sentence. An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Today is your wright-time. Anything worth writing will be, or has been written already. A great story chooses its writer lest no wright should boast. Just write! If you don't, you will come right in contact with your thoughts someplace soon. - Amah Lambert

There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident. - H.L. Mencken

In writing there is art - and in art there is craft ... - Susi Moore

Its weird how i dream things that are worth writing.Its like God is writing them into my mind while i am sleeping and the moment i woke up i know i have to write what i dreamt - Tebogo Phakedi

Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it's a choice between writing a book and doing nothing I will always choose the latter. It's only if I have an idea for two books that I choose one rather than the other. I ­always have to feel that I'm bunking off from something. - Geoff Dyer

Devote yourself to reading, learning and writing. - Lailah Gifty Akita

The day when on the cover of my books, my name will appear in bigger fond than the title of my book- I will stop writing because that would be the death of the writer in me. - Kirtida Gautam

It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction. - Jonathan Franzen

Writing is the high alchemy of the soul that combines words and ideas to create magic. - Sharif Khan

The most exciting part of writing a novel is when the characters take control of the story - Brandt Legg

Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism. - Neil Gaiman

I want to board a train, and leave my books behind. I want to be so caught up in writing about the journey, that I forget that fiction & fact are not the same. The destination does not signify. - Hannah Harding

Only something extremely dire and disabling will ever stop a real writer from writing. Retirement is never an option. - Warren Adler

What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else. - Nadine Gordimer

Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money. - Virginia Woolf

If a bloke gave you a hundred quid for a book you can bet your life it’s his way, but if all the poor and suffering people raise their hats to you for writing it - that’s different; it makes it worthwhile then. - Alan Marshall

Very often, gleams of light come in a few minutes' sleeplessness, in a secondperhaps; you must fix them. To entrust them to the relaxed brain is like writing on water; there is every chance that on the morrow there will be no slightest trace left of any happening. - Antonin Sertillanges

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. - Samuel McChord Crothers

Writing is like life: it goes on. - Marty Rubin

What writing practice, like Zen practice does is bring you back to the natural state of mind…The mind is raw, full of energy, alive and hungry. It does not think in the way we were brought up to think-well-mannered, congenial. - Natalie Goldberg

Sharpen your life always; even though it will come to an end like a pencil, we have to keep on writing - Munia Khan

I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing card…and somehow the activity of writing changes everything. - Joyce Carol Oates

When you are angry try your best to go to sleep, it keeps you away from speaking, writing and thinking while you are angry. - Amit Kalantri

Writing a book is like raising a child. They are conceived in private, and with hard labor, delivered in due time and given a name. Our own DNA is written all over them, and we pray their life will be a blessing to others. - Danny L. Deaubé

When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it. - Oscar Wilde

It seems to me that they only seem to mention things in the Bible that are within a 5 mile radius of the guy writing it. - Jim Jefferies

Writing is like breathing for my soul. - A.D. Posey

All I ever really wanted to do was arouse souls through my writing and enjoy my journey to becoming one with myself and with the world. - Terry A. O'Neal

I felt condemned to obscurity and to celibacy. But when one is driven by passion, one can live on almost nothing, and I was driven by passion for writing. One does not starve in modern, Western societies, and one can do without such amenities as the telephone, a car, entertainment. - Alain Robbe-Grillet

What I've learned about writing is that sometimes less is more, while often more is grander. And both are true. - Richelle E. Goodrich

The fact of the matter is that you should really stop concerning yourself with writing a book because anyone can write a book that totally sucks. There is nothing special about that. - Ashly Lorenzana

Readers can surprise you. Many times, they notice layers in your stories, that even you were not aware of while writing. - Shon Mehta

Writing Tip:Don't let the "writing rules" bog you down when you're writing the first draft; they don't matter when you're writing the story, only when you're editing the story. - Linda Westphal

You don’t get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion. - L. Ron Hubbard

The desire to write grows with writing. - Desiderius Erasmus

One of my favourite parts of writing is doing the research. It's the door into that magical reading/writing state - the raw material for making the story real. - Sara Sheridan

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. - Jules Renard

Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can't erase it. - E.B. White

Writing a book with completely fictitious characters is like running a democracy, centered around a capital state. You constantly live with the fear & suspicion that one of the characters will start an uncontrollable rebellion. - Shomprakash Sinha Roy

Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought? - Joan Didion

[While writing history], I've kept the most interesting company imaginable with people long gone. Some I've come to know better than many I know in real life, since in real life we don't get to read other people's mail. - David McCullough

Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one. - Enid Blyton

It’s easy to write a sentence, paragraph, or book. What’s difficult is writing the best sentence, paragraph, or book, you can write. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier for our living in it. - Pliny The Elder

All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland. - Jimi Hendrix

Never tell anyone that you're writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking. They'll encourage you to death. - Lynn Johnston

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. - Sholem Asch

A person who doesn't have a structured way of writing their goals will experience disorder, even in the comfort zone. - Onyi Anyado

...few young poets [are] testing their poems against the ear. They're writing for the page, and the page, let me tell you, is a cold bed. - Stanley Kunitz

I write, as far as I can tell, because writing is a black sheep sibling of prayer, an urgent struggle against a bad connection, intent, hopeful, innocent, never quite good enough. - Kirk Wilson

The best writing speaks when the heart whispers. - A.D. Posey

No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.

Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you. - Gordon Atkinson

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worries and only half the royalties. - Agatha Christie

When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day. - Neil Gaiman

Writing is storytelling and all of us are authors, not just of words but of reality. You are the author of your life, so go out and live! Then never quit writing about it! - Ben Mikaelsen

No one has something original or important to say will willing we run the risk of being misunderstood; people who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief - William Zinsser

If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more complicated activity that that. - Susan Sontag

I became a writer when I learnt how to read -- how to listen; how to see, smell, touch, and feel. But not everyone who knows these things, not everyone who writes, or publishes, is a writer. Writing is in the soul. - Cindy Aime

The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases. - John Mason Brown

I've been obsessed with stories since I was a kid so it's no surprise that I ended up writing for a living. - Sara Sheridan

Ever since I could read, I’ve wanted to write a book. I never thought I had anything to write about. Maybe you don’t think this is worth writing about. But this book isn’t for you. It’s for me. - Daniel Willey

Writing is turning one's worst moments into money. - J.P. Donleavy

A book acts as the getaway car when you need to escape.Even when you're the one writing it. - Julie Wright

An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do. - W. Somerset Maugham

Eventually I’ll stop writing about you and it’ll be bittersweet. Not because I’m not in love with you, but because I’ll just love you. - Dominic Riccitello

The wall between writing and painting is just good grammar. Moderation in moderation. Fun is scary with a happy ending. Just love. If love doesn’t transform that which annoys you, it will be easier to tolerate. - Emily Thornton Calvo

I’ve always believed writing ads is the second most profitable form of writing. The first is ransom notes… - Phil Dusenberry

I understand that in our work - doesn't matter whether it's acting or writing - what's important isn't fame or glamour, none of the things I used to dream about, it's the ability to endure. - Chekhov Anton

The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas. - Oliver Markus

You will learn more about writing from one hour of reading than you will in six hours of writing. - John McAleer

185. Perhaps this is why writing all day, even when the work feels arduous, never feels to me like "a hard day's work." Often it feels more like balancing two sides of an equation - occasionally quite satisfying, but essentially a hard and passing rain. It, too, kills the time. - Maggie Nelson

One's writing is good only when the intelligence and the imagination are in equilibrium. As soon as one of them overbalances the other, it's all up; you may as well throw it away and begin afresh. - Leo Tolstoy

Reading and writing are not education if they do not help people to be kind to all creatures - John Ruskin

At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there come inspirations and capabilities impossible at any less magical and quiet hour. No one knows whether or not he is a writer unless he has tried writing at night. - H.P. Lovecraft

Writing heals the quandaries of life. - Susan J. McIntire

My life is ruled by four W’s: my writing, my work, my wife, and my whisky. Not necessarily in that order. - Ashwin Sanghi

It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine. - Madeleine L'Engle

How could I fall asleep, when I love the pleasure of reading and writing at night? - Lailah Gifty Akita

Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself. - Terry Pratchett

The first step in blogging is not writing them but reading them. - Jeff Jarvis

You are not responsible for the reader, you're only responsible for what you are writing. - Debasish Mridha

My wishes before I die, to fulfill my mission on earth; The writing of my life stories to inspired present and future generations. - Lailah Gifty Akita

I am a creator, writing like the wind, I carry the weight of a future world in the barrel of a pen, etching my characters into the paper with life giving ink so my dreams and reality might finally meet. - L.M. Fields

Nothing so sharpens the thought process as writing down one's arguments. Weaknesses overlooked in oral discussion become painfully obvious on the written page. - Hyman G. Rickover

Writing is a lot like making soup. My subconscious cooks the idea, but I have to sit down at the computer to pour it out. - Robin Wells

Writing is the silence of the soul struggling to be heard - GBickle

Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are. - Jo Deurbrouck

For me, writing is immortality. It is wisdom. It is never-ending. - Alecia Stone

Twitter is a serious writing distraction. As are grapefruits. The two have nothing else in common. - Richelle E. Goodrich

Writing is the supreme solace. - W. Somerset Maugham

Storytellers think they're writing for the audience. They're writing, in a way, to hurt the audience. - Chuck Wendig

I would not be myself without writing. - Mary Sage Nguyen

Writing is more than a gift. It is a struggle that blesses those who see it through to the end. - Nona Mae King

Writing keeps me sane. - Shelly Goodman-Wright

The best kind of day is a writing day - Buffy Andrews

The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it. - Samuel Johnson

Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact. - A.E. van Vogt

If you’re a writer, your first duty, a duty you owe to yourself and your readers, and to your writing itself, is to become wonderful. To become the best writer you can possibly be. - Theodora Goss

If you are destined to become a writer, you can't help it. If you can help it, you aren't destined to become a writer. The frustrations and disappointments, not even to mention the unspeakable loneliness, are too unbearable for anyone who doesn't have a deep sense of being unable to avoid writing. - Donald Harington

What is the best way to write? Each of us has to discover her own way by writing. Writing teaches writing. No one can tell you your own secret. - Gail Sher

We are writing in the age of stylish minimalism that in truth has become even more cautious because of word processing. Nowadays, creative writing students are underwriting rather than overdoing it. - Stephen Kuusisto

God is writing His story on the pages of our lives. - Rick Anderson

It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous. - Robert Benchley

When you're writing what you love, it's the most fun you can have with your clothing still on, unless of course, you write naked. - Don Roff

What’s writing really about? It’s about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life. - Ted Hughes

Stop writing caption. Go action! - Lenang Manggala

Writing is like running away. Running away to a place you made with your own hand. - YKRaikou

I spent a long time writing in obscurity. You'll spend a long time writing in obscurity. - Dan Kennedy

When it comes to work, I will stop at nothing. When it comes to writing, I will never stop. - Robert Black

A writing cook and a cooking writer must be bold at the desk as well as the stove. - M.F.K. Fisher

The secret to writing a book is starting on page one and not stopping until you write the words "The End". - Bryan Koepke

The unknown characters of writing seem to be endowed with an evil of life of their own as though sentient, and fain would wrest themselves forth from the parchment and wreak mischief on whomsoever gazes upon them. - E. Hoffmann Price

The same Andrew Smith is in all these books, but for me, I feel like you can see the point in his writing where he decided he no longer had anything to lose. That, to me, is when he reached the top of his game.~ - Christa Desir

Writing Vampire Erotica is like writing sex scenes for porcupines. - Benjamin R. Smith

Writing a story is like ruling the world. Except it's even better. How many rulers out there that you know can tell people what they say? - VanillaCreamPie8888

I am forever an advocate of books, both the reading of them and the writing. There is something sacred to me in that community. Because writing--and reading--is a solitary business. And it’s good to know I’m not alone. - Shannon Celebi

If erotic writing is the objectification of sex, then reading is its subjectification. - Mark John Isola

You need that pride in yourself, as well as a sense, when you are sitting on Page 297 of a book, that the book is going to be read, that somebody is going to care. You can't ever be sure about that, but you need the sense that it's important, that it's not typing; it's writing. - Roger Kahn

I don't think I'm essentially interested in children's books. I'm interested in writing, and in pictures. I'm interested in people and in children because they are people. - Margaret Wise Brown

I kill my loneliness by reading and (then) writing, damn. - Desi Puspitasari

Writing is lonely. Until that moment you write your first character and suddenly you have company. - Eliza Green

If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn't hesitate to do so. - Andre Gide

I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation. - Tom Stoppard

A migraine is the cockblock of writing. - Don Roff

Writing is a game of hits and misses. Throw out the hits and keep the misses. - Marty Rubin

Your current circumstances are part of your redemption story He is writing. - Evinda Lepins

Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation. - Toni Cade Bambara

Consider your body and mind as a machine that runs a program; then be aware of who is writing the program you are running. - Russell Eric Dobda

Most writing doesn’t take place on the page; it takes place in your head. - Susan Orlean

Drawing and painting is like a quickie in bed. Were as novel writing is a long term relationship, much more fulling. - Tara Dobbs

I sometimes think that writing is like driving a sheep down the road. If there's any gate open to the left or the right the reader will most certainly go into it. - C.S. Lewis

When you are falling short in vocabulary to explain the emotion in your story.Than you are writing the right story - Tushar Upreti

Writing is like a mental masturbation to me. - Lina K. Lapina

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or a new thing in an old way. - Richard Harding Davis

I've been writing poems since I was sixteen. Back then, poems were an obvious release for all the frustrations and anxieties associated with adolescence. Mostly, they were a way for me to impress girls, even though I never remember any girls being impressed. - Tony Magistrale

[Speaking about writing her first novel] You have to be passionate enough about it and I was. - Kristyn Van Cleave

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. - Francis Bacon

Writing is a disease of the mind, which is expressed through a pen. - Debasish Mridha

Choice betrays character, I said.That’s not true. Loring moved his finger along thesheet as if writing his name in cursive. Eliza, you can’t judge a man solely on his actions. Sometimes actions are nothing more than reactions. - Tiffanie DeBartolo

Writing means making things large. - Christa Wolf

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads. - William Styron

In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love. - John Steinbeck

They fuck you up, your mum and dad', and if you're planning on writing that's probably a good thing. But if you are planning on writing and they haven't fucked you up, well, you've got nothing to go on, so then they've fucked you up good and proper. - Alan Bennett

Don’t stop writing until someone pries the pen from your cold, dead hands. - James J. Tritten

I'm merely dying to be remembered for simply writing about my living memories - Michael Biondi

I’ve done everything I wanted to do, writing books, learning about things, but I’ve been swindled all the same because it’s never anything more. - Simone de Beauvoir

My advice would be to write-never to stop writing, to keep it up all the time, to be painstaking about it, to write until you begin to write. - Gabriel Fielding

Reading feeds the soul, writing nourishes it! - Joanne McClean

Dear Mrs. Black: On seven prior occasions this company has denied your claim in writing. We now deny it for the eighth and final time. You must be stupid, stupid stupid, stupid! - John Grisham

Moral writing is boring. - Johan Van Wyk

In the wander land, we engage ourselves in writing. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Writing is easy: just stare at the screen of your computer until a tear drops on your keyboard. - Paulo Coelho