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Quotes about Writing

The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words. Votes: 6

William H. Gass
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity. Votes: 5

Hippocrates
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All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath. Votes: 4

F. Scott Fitzgerald
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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. Votes: 4

Jack Kerouac
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The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book. Votes: 4

Mickey Spillane
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I write hate lyrics really well. It's not every day you can use them, really. Votes: 4

Nick Cave
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it. Votes: 4

Edgar Allan Poe
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Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. Votes: 4

Jules Renard
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. Votes: 4

Franz Kafka
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The essence of drama is that man cannot walk away from the consequences of his own deeds. Votes: 4

Harold Hayes
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A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it. Votes: 4

Mark Twain
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Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just work. Votes: 4

Sinclair Lewis
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Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon. Votes: 4

E. L. Doctorow
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The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them. Votes: 4

Raymond Chandler
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Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it. Votes: 4

Michael Crichton
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Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon. Votes: 4

Ann Patchett
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My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see. Votes: 4

Joseph Conrad
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And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. Votes: 4

Sylvia Plath
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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying. Votes: 4

Anton Chekhov
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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment. Votes: 4

Matthew Arnold
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One hasn't become a writer until one has distilled writing into a 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. Votes: 4

Niyi Osundare
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A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure. Votes: 4

Henry David Thoreau
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People are certainly impressed by the aura of creative power which a writer may wear, but can easily demolish it with a few well-chosen questions. Bob Shaw has observed that the deadliest questions usually come as a pair: "Have you published anything?" - loosely translated as: I've never heard of you - and "What name do you write under?" - loosely translatable as: I've definitely never heard of you. Votes: 4

Brian Stableford
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Writing forces consciousness. Votes: 3

Melody Beattie
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Writing is seduction. Votes: 3

Stephen King
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Writing is not fun. Votes: 3

Rian Johnson
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Writing bores me so. Votes: 3

Oscar Wilde
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Writing is hard work. Votes: 3

William Zinsser
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Writing makes me happy. Votes: 3

Gretchen Rubin
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Writing is an adventure. Votes: 3

Winston Churchill
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Writing. Love is writing. Votes: 3

Hilda Doolittle
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Writing is busy idleness. Votes: 3

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Writing, like life itself, Votes: 3

Henry Miller
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Writing is a communication. Votes: 3

Theodore Sturgeon
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Writing has to support itself. Votes: 3

V. S. Naipaul
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Writing a poem is discovering. Votes: 3

Robert Frost
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Writing is the supreme solace. Votes: 3

W. Somerset Maugham
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Writing is a solitary occupation. Votes: 3

Bernard Cornwell
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Writing is a lonely profession. Votes: 3

Bob Mayer
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Writing is a supernatural thing. Votes: 3

Silas House
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Writing is a mysterious activity. Votes: 3

Susan Sontag
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Writing is thinking on paper. Votes: 3

William Zinsser
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Writing is a political instrument. Votes: 3

James A. Baldwin
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Writing is an antisocial act. Votes: 3

Martha Grimes
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Writing is a holy occupation. Votes: 3

Lailah Gifty Akita
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Writing is also an art. Votes: 3

Marc Mullo
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Writing is a holy chore. Votes: 3

Harlan Ellison
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Writing a novel is agony. Votes: 3

George Orwell
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Writing is its own reward. Votes: 3

Henry Miller
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Writing is a lonely business. Votes: 3

Sherman Alexie
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Writing is a delicious agony. Votes: 3

Gwendolyn Brooks
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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration. Votes: 3

Roald Dahl
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Writing is a form of self-flagellation. Votes: 3

William Styron
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Writing novels is the most exciting. Votes: 3

Sidney Sheldon
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Writing is hustling of another kind. Votes: 3

John Rechy
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[Writing] has helped me meet people. Votes: 3

PJ Harvey
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Writing is an incredibly lonely job. Votes: 3

R. A. Salvatore
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Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric. Votes: 3

Theodor Adorno
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Writing means revealing oneself to excess. Votes: 3

Franz Kafka
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Writing is a sweet, wonderful reward. Votes: 3

Franz Kafka
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Writing will remain a passion project. Votes: 3

Rory Kinnear
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Writing is fifty years behind painting. Votes: 3

Brion Gysin
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Writing is an antidote for loneliness. Votes: 3

Steven Berkoff
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Writing is not a McDonald's Hamburger.. Votes: 3

Natalie Goldberg
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Writing opens the door to imagination. Votes: 3

Joe Evener
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Writing only leads to more writing. Votes: 3

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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Writing is a struggle against silence. Votes: 3

Carlos Fuentes
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Writing is always harder than talking. Votes: 3

Gloria Steinem
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Writing does not resurrect. It buries. Votes: 3

John Green
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Writing is no respecter of blueprints. Votes: 3

William Zinsser
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Writing is thinking in slow motion. Votes: 3

Walter Kaufmann
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What is writing? Writing is telepathy. Votes: 3

Stephen King
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Writing novels is the most exciting Votes: 3

Sidney Sheldon
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Writing is like carrying a fetus. Votes: 3

Edna O'Brien
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Writing and art are my lovers Votes: 3

Edna Stewart
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Writing [is] a form of prayer. Votes: 3

Franz Kafka
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Writing is a form of mischief. Votes: 3

Stephen Sondheim
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Writing a book is an adventure. Votes: 3

Winston Churchill
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Writing time has to be created. Votes: 3

Gillian Roberts
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Writing is only a guided dream. Votes: 3

Jorge Luis Borges
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Writing is making sense of life. Votes: 3

Nadine Gordimer
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Writing is the act of discovery. Votes: 3

Natalie Goldberg
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Writing well is the best revenge. Votes: 3

Dorothy Parker
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Writing is still on my slate. Votes: 3

Jaleel White
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Writing is my vacation from living. Votes: 3

Eugene O'Neill
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Writing is the beast unto itself. Votes: 3

Omar Epps
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Writing is both mask and unveiling. Votes: 3

E. B. White
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Writing is a constant exercise in longing. Votes: 3

Isabel Allende
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Writing is the most solitary of arts. Votes: 3

Joyce Carol Oates
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Writing is not primarily escape, but use. Votes: 3

Henry James
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Writing is an undertaking for the modest. Votes: 3

Marianne Moore
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Writing for me is largely about rewriting. Votes: 3

Khaled Hosseini
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Writing is a craft not an art. Votes: 3

William Zinsser
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Writing is one way to achieve enchantment. Votes: 3

Guy Kawasaki
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Writing is the painting of the voice. Votes: 3

Voltaire
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Writing is putting one's obsessions in order. Votes: 3

Jean Grenier
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Writing that's not working for a living. Votes: 3

Robert Asprin
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Writing is rewriting what you have rewritten. Votes: 3

Paul Engle
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Therapy is therapy. Writing is for writing. Votes: 3

Isabel Gillies
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Writing a book is not a crime. Votes: 3

Alexander Ahndoril
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Writing is a concentrated form of thinking. Votes: 3

Don DeLillo
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Writing is an incessant process of discovery. Votes: 3

Robert Hass
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Writing is hard for everybody except fools. Votes: 3

Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind. Votes: 3

V. S. Pritchett
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Writing is seeing. It is paying attention. Votes: 3

Kate DiCamillo
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery. Votes: 3

Nadine Gordimer
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Writing is work and cooking is relaxing. Votes: 3

Diane Mott Davidson
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Writing anything is a treason of sorts. Votes: 3

Anthony Bourdain
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Writing is tyranny ... but reading is democracy. Votes: 3

Philip Pullman
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Writing is the geometry of the soul." Votes: 3

Plato
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Writing is a great love of mine. Votes: 3

Micky Dolenz
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Writing is a form of licensed madness. Votes: 3

Mal Peet
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Writing is a journey into the unknown. Votes: 3

Charlie Kaufman
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Writing is the geometry of the soul. Votes: 3

Plato
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Writing is not some quiet, closet act. Votes: 3

Patti Smith
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Writing is a calling, not a choice. Votes: 3

Isabel Allende
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Literature is all, or mostly, about sex. Votes: 3

Anthony Burgess
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Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves. Votes: 3

Paul Theroux
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Writing is a marathon, not a sprint. Votes: 3

Robert McKee
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Writing is such a damn lonely sickness. Votes: 3

David Mitchell
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Writing thats not working for a living. Votes: 3

Robert Asprin
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Writing is the toughest thing I've ever done. Votes: 3

Richard M. Nixon
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Writing can be a source of strength-Wang Liang Votes: 3

Xinran
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Writing day and night for months ... that's hard. Votes: 3

C. J. Cherryh
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Writing is my form of celebration and prayer. Votes: 3

Diane Ackerman
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Writing is revision. All prose responds to work. Votes: 3

Tracy Kidder
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Writing is the great invention of the world. Votes: 3

Abraham Lincoln
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Writing is the hardest physical work there is. Votes: 3

Tom Robbins
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Writing is thinking and thinking is hard work. Votes: 3

Lewis Black
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Writing songs is cheaper than going to therapy. Votes: 3

Brent Smith
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Writing is my primary way of expressing myself. Votes: 3

Annie Baker
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Writing is like a mental masturbation to me. Votes: 3

Li Na
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Writing is above all a question of instinct. Votes: 3

Anthony Powell
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Writing was a chimney for my blazing ambitions. Votes: 3

Storm Jameson
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Writing is a bit like being a god Votes: 3

Charlie Higson
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Writing stories is a kind of magic, too. Votes: 3

Cornelia Funke
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Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Votes: 3

Ernest Hemingway
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Writing is the thing that props me up. Votes: 3

Horton Foote
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Writing is hard - writing is the hardest. Votes: 3

Aubrey Plaza
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Writing is the lonely sport of sad sacks. Votes: 3

Lauren Groff
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Writing is a way of sharing our humanity. Votes: 3

William McIlvanney
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Writing, for me, is a search for God. Votes: 3

Carson McCullers
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Writing has never been that simple for me. Votes: 3

Pat Conroy
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Writing is a job: you must show up. Votes: 3

Justin Cronin
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Writing songs is a trade like anything else. Votes: 3

Jakob Dylan
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream. Votes: 3

Jorge Luis Borges
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Writing poetry is a state of free float. Votes: 3

Margaret Atwood
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Writing is my oxygen. Music is my carbon dioxide. Votes: 3

Jessica Bell
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Writing has never been a driving force within me. Votes: 3

Jeffrey Combs
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I don't wait for inspiration. Writing is my job. Votes: 3

Gail Carson Levine
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Writing has freed me from the despair of living. Votes: 3

Anita Brookner
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Writing is the rock on which everything is built. Votes: 3

Dan Rather
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Writing is like paying myself a formal visit… Votes: 3

Fernando Pessoa
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Writing is really hard, and it's really a skill. Votes: 3

Caroline Leavitt
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Writing adds up to the conscience of our times. Votes: 3

Martin Firrell
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Being a writer is not the point. Writing is. Votes: 3

Mohsin Hamid
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Writing is the voice of the heart' Julia Suzuki Votes: 3

Julia Suzuki
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Writing just for the hell of it is heaven. Votes: 3

Julia Cameron
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Writing is a struggle no matter what the genre. Votes: 3

Susan Wiggs
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Writing is the worst part of being a writer. Votes: 3

James Atlas
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health. Votes: 3

E. B. White
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Writing is not my problem, it is my solution. Votes: 3

Anne Enright
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Writing a novel is a lot like reading one. Votes: 3

Katherine Center
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Writing is a conviction before it is a craft. Votes: 3

Joshua Cohen
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Writing good dialogue is art as well as craft. Votes: 3

Stephen King
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Writing on the road is a passion of mine. Votes: 3

Lee DeWyze
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It is not a crime to commit First Degree Writing Votes: 3

Temple Emmet Williams
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Writing music is my one and only passion and joy. Votes: 3

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Writing is a workout, just like going for a run! Votes: 3

Meg Cabot
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Writing is the only way I know how to pray. Votes: 3

Helena Maria Viramontes
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Writing is easy. Just sit down and open a vein. Votes: 3

Red Barber
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live. Votes: 3

Bernard Malamud
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Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art. Votes: 3

Isabel Allende
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Writing a song is a long road. Or it can be. Votes: 3

Dean Wareham
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Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists. Votes: 3

Stephen King
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I started writing just to have a creative outlet during the down time. Votes: 1

John Cariani
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writing = ass + chair Votes: 0

Oliver Stone
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Translating is writing. Votes: 0

Marguerite Yourcenar
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Everything starts with writing. Votes: 0

Mel Brooks
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I'm very comfortable writing. Votes: 0

Ann Patchett
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Good writing is rewriting. Votes: 0

Truman Capote
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Vigorous writing is concise. Votes: 0

William Strunk, Jr.
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I prefer writing originals. Votes: 0

Tony Gilroy
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Novel writing wrecks homes. Votes: 0

C. S. Forester
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I'm writing about emotions. Votes: 0

Sara Bareilles
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I'm addicted to writing. Votes: 0

Sefi Atta
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I've always loved writing. Votes: 0

Casper Van Dien
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I blundered into writing. Votes: 0

Ralph Ellison
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I love writing songs. Votes: 0

Sade Adu
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Never lie in writing. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley
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All writing is dreaming Votes: 0

Jorge Luis Borges
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I'm composing and writing music. Votes: 0

Anthony Hopkins
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Yeah, writers do hate writing. Votes: 0

Philip Seymour Hoffman
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Novel writing is solitary work. Votes: 0

Mohsin Hamid
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I can't envisage stopping writing. Votes: 0

Antony Beevor
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Your life informs your writing. Votes: 0

Quintin Jardine
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I love writing different things. Votes: 0

Anthony Horowitz
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It's a terrible poison, writing. Votes: 0

A. S. Byatt
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Hard writing makes easy reading. Votes: 0

Wallace Stegner
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Other-Love is writing's first name. Votes: 0

Helene Cixous
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I've been writing forever, 20 years. Votes: 0

Mat Johnson
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Easy writing's curst hard reading. Votes: 0

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Easy writing makes hard reading. Votes: 0

Ernest Hemingway
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I love writing Scottish dialogue. Votes: 0

John Niven
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That's not writing, that's typing Votes: 0

Truman Capote
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I love writing family stories. Votes: 0

Larry Wilmore
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I like writing historical fiction. Votes: 0

Philippa Gregory
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Easy reading requires hard writing, Votes: 0

Anthony Trollope
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I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography. Votes: 0

Steven Wright
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Good writing is always new. Votes: 0

A. S. Byatt
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I've always liked new writing. Votes: 0

Imelda Staunton
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Learn to write by writing Votes: 0

Ann Patchett
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I have a writing addiction. Votes: 0

Prince
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I like writing about friends. Votes: 0

Julie Garwood
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Teaching writing is a hustle. Votes: 0

Cormac McCarthy
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Good writing is essentially rewriting. Votes: 0

Roald Dahl
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I started writing songs at 17. Votes: 0

Miranda Lambert
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I'm going to quit writing. Votes: 0

Sidney Poitier
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How can you stop writing? Votes: 0

Tony Hillerman
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I don't exist without writing. Votes: 0

Jewel
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I believe in my writing. Votes: 0

Barry Manilow
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I've been writing full-time since 1978. Votes: 0

Alan Dean Foster
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The best writing is rewriting. Votes: 0

E. B. White
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I'm very driven by writing. Votes: 0

Molly Shannon
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The power of writing is phenomenal. Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita
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For me, writing is just processing. Votes: 0

Mary Lambert
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I really, really like writing songs. Votes: 0

Debbie Harry
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Medicine and writing are natural companions. Votes: 0

Kevin Patterson
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Anything that isn't writing is easy Votes: 0

Jimmy Breslin
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Teach the writer, not the writing. Votes: 0

Lucy Calkins
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Racist writing is a craft failure. Votes: 0

Kwame Dawes
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I could not think without writing. Votes: 0

Jean Piaget
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Good writing is lean and confident. Votes: 0

William Zinsser
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Reading is more important than writing. Votes: 0

Roberto Bolano
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Every actor just wants good writing. Votes: 0

Jeff Daniels
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I'm addicted to creating and writing. Votes: 0

Bret Michaels
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Be ruthless about protecting writing days. Votes: 0

J. K. Rowling
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I don't consider genre while writing. Votes: 0

Karin Tidbeck
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Exercise the writing muscle every day. Votes: 0

Jane Yolen
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With writing, we have second chances. Votes: 0

Jonathan Safran Foer
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It's a dismally lonely business, writing. Votes: 0

Toni Cade Bambara
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I'm certainly eclectic in my writing. Votes: 0

Jess Walter
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writing, like living, is lonely work. Votes: 0

Blanche Willis Howard
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Good writing comes from good talent. Votes: 0

Leonardo da Vinci
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Choreography is writing on your feet. Votes: 0

Bob Fosse
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I always love writing about children. Votes: 0

Joanna Trollope
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Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. Votes: 0

John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby
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Formatting is no substitute for writing. Votes: 0

Leslie Lamport
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It's a dismally lonely business, writing." Votes: 0

Toni Cade Bambara
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Im always terrified when Im writing. Votes: 0

Mary Karr
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Every kind of writing is hypocritical. Votes: 0

Max Beerbohm
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Painting and writing are solitary arts. Votes: 0

Conrad Hall
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It's the writing that teaches you. Votes: 0

Isaac Asimov
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You learn to write by writing. Votes: 0

William Zinsser
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I'm really bad at writing jokes. Votes: 0

Glenn Howerton
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Easy reading is damn hard writing. Votes: 0

Nathaniel Hawthorne
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By writing, you learn to write. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson
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What writing does is to reveal. Votes: 0

Rita Dove
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All of my writing is God-given. Votes: 0

Ray Bradbury
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I loved the process of writing. Votes: 0

Nora Roberts
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I learned to write by writing. Votes: 0

Neil Gaiman
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All good writing leaves something unexpressed. Votes: 0

Christian Nestell Bovee
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I'm like a junkie for writing. Votes: 0

Gavin DeGraw
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We are all writing God's poem. Votes: 0

Anne Sexton
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I love writing for the screen. Votes: 0

Beth Henley
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I'm quite good at not writing. Votes: 0

Ian Mcewan
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I am baffled by good writing. Votes: 0

Paul Dano
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I always have to be writing. Votes: 0

Taylor Swift
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Headline writing is an art form. Votes: 0

Jennifer Lee
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Let's face it, writing is hell. Votes: 0

William Styron
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Good writing is like a windowpane. Votes: 0

George Orwell
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I started writing songs at age 15. Votes: 0

Vince Clarke
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I had been writing professionally since 1988 Votes: 0

Laura Hillenbrand
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Good writing ain't necessarily good reading. Votes: 0

Ken Kesey
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Planning to write is not writing. Votes: 0

E. L. Doctorow
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You can make anything by writing. Votes: 0

C. S. Lewis
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Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing. Votes: 0

William Faulkner
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You learn a lot, writing fiction. Votes: 0

Penelope Lively
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I don't care about writing really. Votes: 0

Ang Lee
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I've always been into writing love songs. Votes: 0

Sammy Hagar
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Good reading makes for damn hard writing. Votes: 0

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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I really didn't think about song writing. Votes: 0

Adam Rich
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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship. Votes: 0

Larry Wall
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I was nervous about writing Slow Regard. Votes: 0

Patrick Rothfuss
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I consider writing a legitimate Zen practice. Votes: 0

Natalie Goldberg
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All writing is a process of elimination. Votes: 0

Martha Albrand
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I won't read novels while writing novels. Votes: 0

Wally Lamb
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Every writer I know has trouble writing. Votes: 0

Joseph Heller
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I think my writing has become "cleaner." Votes: 0

Jodi Picoult
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Good writing is about telling the truth. Votes: 0

Anne Lamott
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Fiction writing feels more honest to me. Votes: 0

David James Duncan
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I am content when writing short stories. Votes: 0

Sarah Mazucci
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I really love writing themes and melody. Votes: 0

Trevor Rabin
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I'm only really alive when I'm writing. Votes: 0

Tennessee Williams
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Movies are like writing history with lightning. Votes: 0

Woodrow Wilson
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I think writing should be about change. Votes: 0

Richard Flanagan
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There's no equivalent to Mozart in writing." Votes: 0

Frances Ann Lebowitz
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Inspiration comes from the act of writing. Votes: 0

Steve Doll
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So much emotion goes into writing fiction. Votes: 0

Stephen Carter
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I listen to music constantly while writing. Votes: 0

Orson Scott Card
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Many have an irresistible itch for writing. Votes: 0

Juvenal
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I've been writing full-time since I was 23, Votes: 0

Emma Donoghue
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Goals in writing are dreams with deadlines. Votes: 0

Brian Tracy
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I should be concentrating on writing pages. Votes: 0

R. L. Stine
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There's no equivalent to Mozart in writing. Votes: 0

Fran Lebowitz
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The hardest thing about writing is writing. Votes: 0

Nora Ephron
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Try writing a book, dude. That's difficult. Votes: 0

Ridley Scott
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I despair of ever writing excellent poetry. Votes: 0

Isaac Rosenberg
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I think it's Jerry's masterful fiction writing. Votes: 0

Tim LaHaye
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The ultimate goal of writing is forgiveness. Votes: 0

Katerina Stoykova Klemer
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With great writing, there is great clarity. Votes: 0

David Costabile
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Sunday afternoon is for papers and writing. Votes: 0

Nicholas Haslam
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I'm having bigger problems when I'm writing. Votes: 0

Markus Zusak
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So much emotion goes into writing fiction. Votes: 0

Stephen L. Carter
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Clutter is the disease of American writing, Votes: 0

William Zinsser
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I began writing as an experimental writer. Votes: 0

Sandra Cisneros
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Sex and writing live on playful cruelties. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley
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History-writing is not a visit of condolence. Votes: 0

Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier
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It's painful to consider anything but writing. Votes: 0

Emma Donoghue
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I started writing to save my life. Votes: 0

Joy Harjo
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All writing is a form of prayer. Votes: 0

John Keats
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My true nature, I believe, is writing. Votes: 0

Richard LaGravenese
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I started writing stories as a child. Votes: 0

Danielle Steel
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To read without writing is to sleep. Votes: 0

St. Jerome
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Im really good at writing almost hits. Votes: 0

Ben Folds
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You become a great writer by writing. Votes: 0

Peter Thiel
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I hate writing, I love having written. Votes: 0

Dorothy Parker
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I don't believe in writing people off. Votes: 0

Rico Love
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I like going back and writing fiction. Votes: 0

Julia Sweeney
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I took a lot of writing courses. Votes: 0

Danny Strong
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I do a lot of screen re-writing. Votes: 0

Bruce Vilanch
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My idea of heaven is not writing. Votes: 0

Stephen Sondheim
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You fail only if you stop writing. Votes: 0

Ray Bradbury
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I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing. Votes: 0

Doris Lessing
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That's what my life is, writing songs. Votes: 0

John Cale
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I spend most of my time writing. Votes: 0

Louise Erdrich
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I don't like writing essays or theory. Votes: 0

Adrian Mitchell
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I'm a drinker with a writing problem. Votes: 0

Brendan Behan
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I'm not writing a Ph.D. Dissertation. Votes: 0

Bill O'Reilly
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I am a drinker with writing problems. Votes: 0

Brendan Behan
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I was an angst-y journal writing kid. Votes: 0

Justin Halpern
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When I'm writing I get easily bored. Votes: 0

Herman Koch
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I get a great high from writing. Votes: 0

Walter Hill
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Not writing at all leads to nothing. Votes: 0

Anna Quindlen
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I love writing about monsters and food. Votes: 0

Nnedi Okorafor
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My background is in improv and writing. Votes: 0

Paul Scheer
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The only kind of writing is rewriting. Votes: 0

Ernest Hemingway
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A migraine is the cockblock of writing. Votes: 0

Don Roff
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I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter. Votes: 0

Mel Brooks
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Getting even is one reason for writing. Votes: 0

William H. Gass
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But I'm more scared of not writing. Votes: 0

Gloria E. Anzaldúa
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The desire to write grows with writing. Votes: 0

Desiderius Erasmus
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Love is easy, and I love writing. Votes: 0

Ray Bradbury
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That isn't writing at all, it's typing. Votes: 0

Truman Capote
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I just want to keep writing music. Votes: 0

Lady Gaga
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In a way, I was safe writing Votes: 0

Franz Kafka
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In my mind, I'm writing for everybody. Votes: 0

Jerry Spinelli
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When I am not writing, I'm dying. Votes: 0

Neil Diamond
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Right now I really enjoy writing songs. Votes: 0

Jonny Lang
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I started writing every day. I never stopped. Votes: 0

Ray Bradbury
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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. Votes: 0

Pat Conroy
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You never get over the fear of writing. Votes: 0

Maya Angelou
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All writing begins in the sea of experience. Votes: 0

Barry Lane
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Conscious writing can be the death of poetry. Votes: 0

Marianne Moore
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I started writing when I was about thirteen. Votes: 0

Al Purdy
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I stopped dying the moment I started writing Votes: 0

Arnon Grunberg
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Like all former thinkers, I'm writing a book. Votes: 0

Lillian Hellman
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This is my inception, I'm writing my dreams. Votes: 0

Common
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Reading is the inhale, writing is the exhale. Votes: 0

Justine Musk
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Setting down in writing, is a lasting memory. Votes: 0

Henry Fielding
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My best writing has always been in journals. Votes: 0

Thomas Merton
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I don't like writing. I like having written. Votes: 0

Gloria Steinem
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writing is the most personal form of prayer. Votes: 0

Sarah Ban Breathnach
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I write because I can't imagine not writing. Votes: 0

Richard Price
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You develop a style from writing a lot. Votes: 0

Kurt Vonnegut
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The greatest occupation is the act of writing. Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita
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Originally I was not writing songs for myself Votes: 0

Smokey Robinson
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That's the hard work of writing. The imagining. Votes: 0

Jincy Willett
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Hitch your unconscious mind to your writing arm. Votes: 0

Dorothea Brande
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Good thing you're not writing the press release. Votes: 0

Adam Schiff
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There is no great writing, only great rewriting. Votes: 0

Louis D. Brandeis
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Good writing is good conversation, only more so. Votes: 0

Ernest Hemingway
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There is no great writing, only great rewriting. Votes: 0

Justice Louis Brandeis
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I really absolutely loved writing my first book. Votes: 0

Jill Davis
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My writing process isn't a very organized thing. Votes: 0

Chuck Palahniuk
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Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about. Votes: 0

Marilyn Hacker
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I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe. Votes: 0

Neil Gaiman
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Creative writing and literacy go hand and hand. Votes: 0

Rita Dove
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I'm what happens after death, which is writing. Votes: 0

Kathy Acker
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My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything. Votes: 0

Ernest Hemingway
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Sound judgment is the ground of writing well. Votes: 0

Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
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The writing in itself is transformative for me. Votes: 0

H. Raven Rose
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Good storytelling appeals to me - good writing. Votes: 0

Sanaa Lathan
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience. Votes: 0

Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Well, we're meant to be writing stories today, Votes: 0

Mark Haddon
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How quiet the writing, how noisy the printing. Votes: 0

Marina Tsvetaeva
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I'm not writing fairy tales or object lessons. Votes: 0

Junot Diaz
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Disorganizatio n is the enemy of good writing. Votes: 0

Guy Kawasaki
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Not-writing is a good deal worse than writing. Votes: 0

Flannery O'Connor
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In good writing, words become one with things. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I consider writing an act of good citizenship. Votes: 0

Kurt Vonnegut
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And I love writing. I've always loved writing. Votes: 0

James Daly
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Originally I was not writing songs for myself. Votes: 0

Smokey Robinson
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Journal writing is a voyage to the interior. Votes: 0

Christina Baldwin
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In writing, you must kill all your darlings. Votes: 0

William Faulkner
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Half of writing history is hiding the truth. Votes: 0

Joss Whedon
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I'm not done writing songs about you yet. Votes: 0

Maggie Stiefvater
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I love writing. It makes me so happy. Votes: 0

Quiara Alegria Hudes
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I just like doing it, I like writing. Votes: 0

Alice Mattison
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By writing much, one learns to write well. Votes: 0

Robert Southey
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I think all writing is done through memory Votes: 0

Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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My writing has a lot of surprising twists, Votes: 0

Brent Weeks
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My writing has a lot of surprising twists. Votes: 0

Brent Weeks
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I really don't feel that writing is therapy. Votes: 0

Jennifer Gilmore
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Alimony is the curse of the writing class. Votes: 0

Norman Mailer
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Life sometimes gets in the way of writing. Votes: 0

Jean M. Auel
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I'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing, Votes: 0

Octavia Butler
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I don't want my writing to be recognized. Votes: 0

Shawn Ryan
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A day without writing was a little death. Votes: 0

Ray Bradbury
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I am really just writing about real life. Votes: 0

Klayton
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I think all writing is done through memory. Votes: 0

Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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Of writing many books there is no end. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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I started writing songs when I was eight. Votes: 0

Wiz Khalifa
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I never listen to music when I'm writing. Votes: 0

Ben Fountain
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All writing comes by the grace of God. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Facebook is the novel we are all writing Votes: 0

Katie Roiphe
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If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Votes: 0

Elmore Leonard
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I am also producing and writing a bunch. Votes: 0

Andre Holland
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There is a kind of mysticism to writing. Votes: 0

Irvine Welsh
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Oh you know, I've been writing a novel. Votes: 0

Jarvis Cocker
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I love writing about people on the road. Votes: 0

Cynthia Kadohata
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The writer's duty is to keep on writing. Votes: 0

William Styron
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Learn as much by writing as by reading. Votes: 0

Lord Acton
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I started writing stories in my spare time. Votes: 0

Ken Follett
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If you want to study writing, read Dickens Votes: 0

Shelby Foote
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Being so honest in my writing is cathartic. Votes: 0

Brian Molko
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I liked Sartre's views but not his writing. Votes: 0

Tahar Ben Jelloun
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I like writing about biology, not doing it. Votes: 0

Kary Mullis
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I need a release from whatever I'm writing. Votes: 0

Lynn Nottage
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The writing is what's most important to me. Votes: 0

Billy Lawrence
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I like sitting and writing with my buddies. Votes: 0

Adam Sandler
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It takes hard writing to make easy reading. Votes: 0

Robert Louis Stevenson
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The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful Votes: 0

Seamus Heaney
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The better the writing, the easier it gets. Votes: 0

Tim Roth
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I used to love writing in my journal. Votes: 0

Tyra Banks
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There are no rules to writing a song. Votes: 0

Randy Castillo
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Why is a raven like a writing desk? Votes: 0

Lewis Carroll
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Television has raised writing to a new low. Votes: 0

Samuel Goldwyn
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God is love, but get it in writing. Votes: 0

Gypsy Rose Lee
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The best writing has no lace on its sleeves. Votes: 0

Walt Whitman
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Send message to the future by writing it today! Votes: 0

Toba Beta
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You have to go where the good writing is. Votes: 0

Damian Lewis
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My writing is a picture of the mind moving. Votes: 0

Philip Whalen
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... what I fear in writing is the safe decision. Votes: 0

Anne Rice
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You become writer by writing. It is a yoga. Votes: 0

R.K. Narayan
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In certain ways writing is a form of prayer. Votes: 0

Denise Levertov
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I started writing as soon as I started reading. Votes: 0

Michael Koryta
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I do a lot of writing about my family. Votes: 0

Katey Sagal
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I'm very involved in the writing on every level. Votes: 0

Fran Drescher
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I always loved writing as a tool of expression. Votes: 0

Zoe Lister-Jones
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The joy of writing is the fullness of existence. Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita
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We are only writing the history of our time. Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita
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I care about writing music and playing my music. Votes: 0

Carla Bruni
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The book doesn't end when you finish writing it. Votes: 0

Claire Tomalin
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It has gone past me now, the writing phase. Votes: 0

Rod Stewart
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The secret of good writing is telling the truth. Votes: 0

Gordon Lish
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It certainly made a film writing career for me. Votes: 0

Buck Henry
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I think my writing is part of my ministry. Votes: 0

Robert Fulghum
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I started writing more with my voice in mind. Votes: 0

Lucinda Williams
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I enjoy writing. I enjoy that kind of process. Votes: 0

Caroline Kennedy
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You can't fake it. Bad writing is a gift. Votes: 0

Richard Le Gallienne
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I am writing history, and I can't be there. Votes: 0

Jay Mark D. Saga-ad
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I think writing is one of the toughest things. Votes: 0

Eran Creevy
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I'm more rooted in new plays and new writing. Votes: 0

Brendan Coyle
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One thing I really want to explore is writing. Votes: 0

Lisa Kudrow
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Most things good for writing are bad for life. Votes: 0

Lorrie Moore
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A sense of place is very important in writing. Votes: 0

William Lashner
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But I never listen to music while I'm writing. Votes: 0

Stephen Greenblatt
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I think writing is a much more personal thing. Votes: 0

Patrick Stump
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A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized. Votes: 0

Suzanne Vega
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For me, writing is a kind of coping mechanism. Votes: 0

Chuck Palahniuk
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Lord, how tired one gets of one's own writing. Votes: 0

Virginia Woolf
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I'm not buying a boat because of writing skits. Votes: 0

Jason Sudeikis
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I love writing. I've pursued it with a passion. Votes: 0

Betsy Byars
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I don't like writing with real people in mind. Votes: 0

Laura Wade
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The real power of comics is writing as you draw. Votes: 0

Chris Ware
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The ocean is worth writing about just as man is. Votes: 0

Ernest Hemingway
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The core of my writing is not art but truth. Votes: 0

Philip K. Dick
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I always knew writing a novel was a great thing. Votes: 0

James Salter
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I was an A student and I liked creative writing. Votes: 0

Trisha Yearwood
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I guess my writing has changed as my life has. Votes: 0

Raymond Carver
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I spend a lot of time writing in New York. Votes: 0

Keren Ann
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My writing is full of lives I might have led. Votes: 0

Joyce Carol Oates
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If I did anything 'next,' I would do writing. Votes: 0

Ellen Muth
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I started writing hits the day I sold my piano. Votes: 0

Michael Cretu
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I'm just writing a story that I want to read. Votes: 0

Jean M. Auel
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I love being a lawyer more than I like writing. Votes: 0

David Shapiro
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My work is writing, but my real work is being. Votes: 0

William Saroyan
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Give me good writing, and I'll play it all day. Votes: 0

Jeff Daniels
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I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot. Votes: 0

Virginia Woolf
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My style of writing is very diffrent from yours.

Jane Austen
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Place is character. And all writing is regional.

John Dufresne
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Start [writing] as close to the end as possible.

Kurt Vonnegut
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Practice writing and speaking about what you do.

Sanford Biggers
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As a general rule, writing is very inconvenient.

Shannon Hale
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I've been writing songs since I was a wee child.

Taylor Momsen
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I like myself better when I'm writing regularly.

Willie Nelson
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Color is enslaved by line, that becomes writing.

Yves Klein
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As if a cookbook had anything to do with writing.

Alice B. Toklas
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...writing is not a performance but a generosity.

Brenda Ueland
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I'm very hard on myself when it comes to writing.

Bryan Fuller
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There are very few innocent sentences in writing.

David Foster Wallace
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Writing is the way I participate in the struggle.

Edwidge Danticat
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To be successful in writing, use short sentences.

Ernest Hemingway
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Silence augmenteth grief, writing increaseth rage

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
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Never put off writing until you are better at it.

Gary Henderson
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Asthmatic immigrant learns to breathe by writing.

Gary Shteyngart
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The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.

Horace
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Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23.

Johanna Lindsey
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Good God! This man should be writing dime novels.

Josephus Daniels
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The great art of writing is knowing when to stop.

Josh Billings
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I love writing songs where the name is the title.

Katy B
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Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

Leo Tolstoy
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I don't feel like writing any more ghost stories.

Mary Downing Hahn
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Writing is a crummy profession, but a good hobby.

Paavo Haavikko
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Here's the secret of writing: there is no secret.

Ralph Fletcher
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...I am writing these poems from inside a lion...

Shel Silverstein
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Poets find truth by writing about what they love.

Susan Cooper
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Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.

Terry Pratchett
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The best writing deadlines are poverty and death.

Victor LaValle
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All the time she writing the world had continued.

Virginia Woolf
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I try not get too self-aware when writing lyrics.

Win Butler
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Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.

Angela Carter
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All I am is the trick of words writing themselves.

Anne Sexton
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I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales

Carol Ann Duffy
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I am never going to write for the sake of writing.

Emma Lazarus
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The best writing is certainly when you are in love

Ernest Hemingway
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What we know about writing the novel is the novel.

Eudora Welty
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I've been writing in notebooks for 40 years or so.

Frank McCourt
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I'm more interested in writing than in performing.

Frank McCourt
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.

Gloria Steinem
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The most original novelist now writing in English.

Ivy Compton-Burnett
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Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.

J.P. Donleavy
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Writing novels is an essentially amateur activity.

Jane Smiley
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Writing in English is like throwing mud at a wall.

Joseph Conrad
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I can't start writing until I have a closing line.

Joseph Heller
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Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.

Juvenal
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I'll probably be writing as long as I'm breathing.

Kris Kristofferson
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I can be a little OCD when it comes to my writing.

Kristin Hannah
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The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Writing isn't hard - no harder than ditch digging.

Patrick Dennis
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Writing my blog has saved me thousands on therapy.

Phil Cooke
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Money and writing appear to be mutually exclusive.

Rita Mae Brown
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Writing music is my therapy. It’s very purifying!

Amy Lee
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I'd like my writing to be recognized with a Grammy.

Chely Wright
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Writing fiction is fundamentally an irrational act.

Dale Peck
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That's what writing is. It's moving past your fear.

Jacqueline Woodson
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I have writing songs on my own for about six years.

Joanna Newsom
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The dancer becomes the dance. And I am the writing.

Louis L'Amour
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If you like not my writing, go read something else.

Robert Burton
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Writing is a trade ... which is learned by writing.

Simone de Beauvoir
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I enjoy writing dialogue; it comes naturally to me.

Tom Stoppard
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I'd never done anything useful as far as my writing.

Anthony Bourdain
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I guess you could say I've been writing all my life.

Anthony Doerr
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Writing a poem is making music with words and space.

Arnold Adoff
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I am 54 and age is slowly writing itself on my face.

Arthur Smith
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Writing has enriched my life in ways I never imaged.

Augusten Burroughs
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Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.

Carl Sagan
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I'd always been really intimidated by prose writing.

David Rees
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The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

Ernest Hemingway
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Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.

Fay Weldon
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.

Franz Kafka
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Writing does for me what giving milk does for a cow.

H. L. Mencken
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I'm not writing to make anyone's children feel safe.

J. K. Rowling
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Life is sad enough without people writing sad books.

James T. Farrell
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Writing cannot be done in a state of desirelessness,

Janet Malcolm
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Writing and directing just sort of fell into my lap.

John Krasinski
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I've always been able to survive by writing, though.

John Milius
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To this day writing is the most painful thing to do.

Jose Antonio Vargas
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Live your life as if you are writing your Biography.

Keshia Chante
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Every writer has to find their own way into writing.

Margaret Mahy
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Writing novels is a way of living alternative lives.

Melvyn Bragg
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Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.

Michel de Montaigne
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There's hundreds of different ways of writing songs.

Mick Jagger
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I am but a small pencil in the hand of a writing God

Mother Teresa
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Writing should be the settlement of dew on the leaf.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I've been writing every day of my life for 65 years.

Ray Bradbury
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Writing is still like heaving bricks over a wall ...

Virginia Woolf
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I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.

William Carlos Williams
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This writing wasn't painful. It was like being high.

William McKeen
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You could be writing the book that changes your life.

Brandon Sanderson
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Write for the love of writing and you can't go wrong.

Christopher Paul Curtis
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Writing is a dying form. One reads of this every day.

Daniel Handler
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Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing.

Elena Ferrante
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The further you go in writing the more alone you are.

Ernest Hemingway
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I started writing for the theatre because I hated it.

Eugene Ionesco
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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

Flannery O'Connor
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Never be sincere - sincerity is the death of writing.

Gordon Lish
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I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.

Jack Kerouac
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If I am just home and writing, I become very strange.

Kate DiCamillo
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I worship F. Scott Fitzgerald and I love his writing.

Madonna Ciccone
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I think writing is, by definition, an optimistic act.

Michael Cunningham
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Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.

Pat Conroy
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Writing code means always having to say you're sorry.

Paul Ford
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The author enters into his own death, writing begins.

Roland Barthes
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How I became a better writer was that I kept writing.

Sallie Tisdale
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I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process.

St. Lucia
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Never stop writing because you have run out of ideas.

Walter Benjamin
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I do a lot of mental work before I ever start writing.

Anna Quindlen
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For heaven's sake, don't write writing. Write reading!

Avi
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Composing was more difficult than writing things down.

Benjamin Clementine
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I enjoy writing. I enjoy communicating and connecting.

Bethenny Frankel
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No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.

Bill Condon
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Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience.

Carl Reiner
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In writing one draws in the rest, the forgotten parts.

Edmund White
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Having books published is very destructive to writing.

Ernest Hemingway
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.

Gertrude Stein
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The act of writing is the act of making soul, alchemy.

Gloria E. Anzaldúa
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Never judge your own writing. You're not fit to do so.

Isaac Asimov
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I like writing my own material - Im pretty good at it.

Jackee Harry
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Writing music is just something that I was born to do.

Joan Armatrading
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My writing is sort of Sidney Sheldon meets Anne Tyler.

John Searles
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Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.

Jules Renard
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Writing does not exclude the full life; it demands it.

Katherine Anne Porter
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Writing is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary.

Kathryn Harrison
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Writing poetry is a pleasure,...a pleasure out of hell

Kenneth Slessor
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There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

Margaret Atwood
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Dreams are letters from the book your life is writing.

Paulo Coelho
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I would spend my time telling stories or writing them.

Robert Mugabe
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I took my writing seriously, and it seemed to pay off.

Samuel R. Delany
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Writing distills, crystallizes, and clarifies thought.

Stephen Covey
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I am writing a book. So far I have the pages numbered.

Steven Wright
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Thinking, writing are ultimately questions of stamina.

Susan Sontag
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Style comes only have long, hard practice and writing.

William Styron
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A writer will do anything to avoid the act of writing.

William Zinsser
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Sometimes writing songs is like waiting for deliveries.

Alex Turner
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In [writing] fiction, every sentence is its own reward.

Amy Tan
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I got into comedy because I wanted to get into writing.

Anthony Jeselnik
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Writing with you is the only thing that keeps me alive.

David Hackworth
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In my writing, I want to be laid bare as a human being.

Denis Johnson
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I don't think writing fiction has changed my worldview.

Donald Ray Pollock
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I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.

Eddie Van Halen
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Doing an experiment is not more important than writing.

Edwin Boring
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Writing is not hard work, it is simply an obsession ...

Hallie Burnett
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Never mistake talking about writing for actual writing.

Jack Kerouac
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I wouldn't underestimate the power of writing a letter.

Jane Alison
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I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.

Jerome Lawrence
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Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Writing helped me understand what I was thinking about.

John Baldessari
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Nothing could be more natural to me than writing music.

Lisa Lopes
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There is no good writing; there is only good rewriting.

Louis D. Brandeis
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By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.

Louise Erdrich
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I think a lot of time, I'm just writing my worst fears.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge
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There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done.

Theodore Sturgeon
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Writing and learning and thinking are the same process.

William Zinsser
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In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.

Alexandre Dumas
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I've been writing and wanting to direct for a long time.

Andy Serkis
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My most pronounced writing habit is trying not to write.

Anna Quindlen
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You have to be very brave in that first writing session.

Barry Mann
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My education and background thoroughly inform my writing

David Brin
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A great deal of living must go to a very little writing.

Frances Ridley Havergal
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Life's too short to be sat at home writing all the time.

Helen Hodgman
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Writing is an act of cherishing... It is an act of love.

Julia Cameron
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In my writing classes, I don't outlaw any genre writing.

Leni Zumas
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Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts...

Mark Vonnegut
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I write every day. Writing is a necessity - like eating.

Mary MacLane
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Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.

Siri Hustvedt
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...writing fiction...is no job for intellectual cowards.

Stephen King
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I have to feel what I'm writing, right down to the core.

Steven Erikson
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Writing means being a fascinated slave to current events.

Allan Gurganus
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The secret is writing down one simple line after another.

Charles Bukowski
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You only learn to be a better writer by actually writing.

Doris Lessing
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Writing about your community is difficult for any writer.

Eden Robinson
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The books I'm writing are houses that I build for myself.

Etel Adnan
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Our writing equipment takes part in forming our thoughts.

Friedrich Nietzsche
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Finish the day's writing when you still want to continue.

Helen Dunmore
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I am writing with my burnt hand about the nature of fire.

Ingeborg Bachmann
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Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.

Isabel Allende
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I love writing. I like reading, other people, not myself.

James Lipton
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Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.

Jasper Fforde
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.

John Muir
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When I'm not writing or reading, I'm thinking about both.

Joseph Brodsky
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I'm sure other writers have no difficulties writing nice.

Justine Larbalestier
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In writing, as in life, always be true to your character.

Laurie Faria Stolarz
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When I'm writing, I thoroughly enjoy it. It just goes on.

Malachy McCourt
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I'm supposed to be writing a book, and I can hardly read.

Mark Fidrych
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Writing is hard work; its also the best job Ive ever had.

Raymond E. Feist
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Writing is hard, even for authors who do it all the time.

Roger Angell
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Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.

Rudolf Virchow
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Writing was in its origin, the voice of an absent person.

Sigmund Freud
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I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.

Edward Albee
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The more practice you have, the less stressful writing is.

Edwidge Danticat
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Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.

Erica Jong
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My writing has always been met with derision or dismissal.

Jamaica Kincaid
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Writing is a suspension of life in order to re-create life

John McPhee
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Writing is a private discipline, in a field of companions.

Jonathan Lethem
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Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.

Jules Renard
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Writing is a solitary occupation, and we like it that way.

Julianne MacLean
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My writing comes from ideas that make a sound in my heart.

Katherine Paterson
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My teacher has a reading problem. He can't read my writing

Leopold Fechtner
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I can't believe it! Reading and writing actually paid off!

Matt Groening
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I think writing is the most underrated thing in Hollywood.

Michael Pena
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Writing can teach us the dignity of speaking the truth ...

Natalie Goldberg
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We rarely know where we are going; writing is a discovery.

Robert McKee
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The writing of words can lead to all sorts of absurdities.

Sherwood Anderson
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I'm convinced that FEAR is at the root, of all bad writing

Stephen King
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All writing is ultimately a question of solving a problem.

William Zinsser
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A typical day for me is I'm writing when I'm not directing.

Adam Rapp
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I'll be writing songs till I die. There's just no question.

Alanis Morissette
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There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.

Charles Bukowski
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I like the process of writing songs. It makes me feel good.

Colin Hay
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Actually I was writing with people that didn't get records.

Cynthia Weil
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I start writing when I overcome my disgust with literature.

Danilo Kis
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In teaching writing, I'm learning new things about writing.

David B. Coe
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I was always writing. I just didn't know if I was any good.

John Dufresne
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In large measure, writing is the spatialization of thought.

Marshall McLuhan
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My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing

Philip Pullman
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But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.

Sylvia Plath
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When I'm writing, I never write more than four hours a day.

Truman Capote
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When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.

Walter Darby Bannard
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Writing a check separates a commitment from a conversation.

Warren Buffett
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I feel devoutly thankful to have been born fond of writing.

Winston Churchill
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The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.

Alan Dean Foster
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I've been writing most of my life; it's just something I do.

Alejandro Zambra
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There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.

Bill Gates
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I feel like writing songs is cheating on acting. It's weird.

Ester Dean
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Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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For me writing is as close to being an engineer as possible.

Guy Kawasaki
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What about WRITING it first and rationalizing it afterwards?

Larry Wall
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Coming up with the idea is the worst part of writing for me.

Megan Chance
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Reading is like breathing in, writing is like breathing out.

Pam Allyn
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Ideas are the easy part. The hard part is writing them down.

Patricia C. Wrede
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I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

Paulo Coelho
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Writing is one of the most solitary activities in the world.

Paulo Coelho
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The only wat to get better at writing is to write. And read.

Stephen King
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Writing must always have intention because words have power.

Suheir Hammad
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E-mail creates the illusion that you're writing. You're not.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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And I identify too closely with my reading, with my writing.

Sylvia Plath
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Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly every day.

William Allingham
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Magic is older than writing. So nobody knows how it started.

Zora Neale Hurston
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If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.

Anne Tyler
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I have tried to explore the little talent I have for writing.

Cyril Cusack
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I am writing My Life to laugh at myself, and I am succeeding.

Giacomo Casanova
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Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.

Horace
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I loved writing Dumbledore and he is the epitome of goodness.

J. K. Rowling
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If I'm writing and a chapter isn't coming, I just move ahead.

James Patterson
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The writing life is a secret life, wither we admit it or not.

Jayne Anne Phillips
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I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.

Jeanette Winterson
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And I love writing; I've been writing ever since I was seven.

Jena Malone
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I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories.

Jimmy Breslin
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Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.

John Gregory Dunne
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Perhaps the act of writing is necessary when nothing happens.

Kobo Abe
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Writing was a political act and poetry was a cultural weapon.

Linton Kwesi Johnson
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Writing becomes beautiful when it becomes specific, concrete.

Ralph Fletcher
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Writing is like a sport - you only get better if you practice

Rick Riordan
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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.

Roald Dahl
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My history is really playing live - not writing or recording.

Squarepusher
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Eventually writing became more interesting to me than acting.

Sylvester Stallone
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Writing is only the frosting on my cake. Im whole without it.

Tabitha King
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Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

Terry McMillan
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

Thomas Carlyle
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I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing.

Walter Lord
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The writing itself is the thing that generates stories for me.

Alice McDermott
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When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.

Anne Sexton
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When Rimbaud became a slave trader, he stopped writing poetry.

Chinua Achebe
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I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.

David Byrne
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My dream writing room would be the Imperial Library in Vienna.

Fran Lebowitz
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The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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A life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Writing is my only interest. Even speaking is an interruption.

Isaac Asimov
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Writing is not a profession. It's a calling. It's almost holy.

Jamaica Kincaid
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Writing is one of the main ways that I process the experience.

Jennifer Pharr Davis
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The biggest downside to being a novelist is writing the novel.

Jill Barnett
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Writing a book is like loving someone. It can be very painful.

Joel Dicker
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We've already established whoever is writing us is an asshole.

John Scalzi
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Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music.

John Steinbeck
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Writing is a refuge from unhappiness, but has its own sorrows.

Mason Cooley
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Writing is like a love affair: the beginning is the best part.

Mavis Gallant
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Good writing is good writing, and I'm so happy when I read it.

Meg Wolitzer
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I think comedy is the hardest actual form of writing there is.

Michael Hirst
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I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing.

Michael Ironside
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in writing, sex doesn't matter; it's the writing that matters.

Nadine Gordimer
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Twenty to one offend more in writing too much than too little.

Roger Ascham
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I'm currently writing a screenplay that I haven't started yet.

Serena Williams
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For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

Sylvia Plath
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Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.

Terry McMillan
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People say you cant teach writing, but I think thats nonsense.

Tracy Kidder
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It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing.

Truman Capote
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I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.

Aharon Appelfeld
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Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be.

Alice Notley
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You want in all cases for the story to get through the writing.

Alice Munro
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One of the ways in which I feel close to God is writing poetry.

Christian Wiman
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A day of bad writing is always better than a day of no writing.

Don Roff
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I was really artistic. I did a lot of poetry, a lot of writing.

Dreezy
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Writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for wordlessness.

Ernest Hemingway
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Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.

Ernest Hemingway
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So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days.

Graham Greene
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.

Gustave Flaubert
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What is generally missed, is that my writing financed research.

L. Ron Hubbard
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Let people return to making knots on ropes, instead of writing.

Laozi
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I don't want to be known for anything other than writing songs.

Nate Ruess
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Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious.

P. D. James
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When you're writing, it's rather like going on a very long walk

Roald Dahl
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Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing.

Robert Morgan
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If your life is worth thinking about,it is worth writing about.

Robin Sharma
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I began just writing poems and then fell in love with the form.

Simone Muench
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If the stuff you're writing is not for yourself, it won't work.

Stephen King
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The act of writing itself is done in secret, like masturbation.

Stephen King
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There's one novel, Cujo, that I barely remember writing at all.

Stephen King
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Writing is extremely personal, and that's the joy of it for me.

Steve Martin
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The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.

Thomas Jefferson
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I love writing. It's a fun challenge. It refuels me personally.

Trevor McNevan
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If Shakespeare were alive today, he might be writing on Twitter.

Ai Weiwei
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That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.

Antonia Fraser
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The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.

Barbara Mertz
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Writing a memoir has a particularly excited sense of narcissism.

Bill Ayers
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The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.

Blaise Pascal
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The writing's easy, it's the living that is sometimes difficult.

Charles Bukowski
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Writing novels takes up about 100% of my available working time.

Charles Stross
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If Shakespeare was alive today, he'd be writing wrestling shows.

Chris Jericho
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I think I get certain pleasure from writing what I'm performing.

Ellie Kemper
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Back to work. If I'm [writing] I'm not thinking about the crazy.

Faith Hunter
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The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time.

Harlan Coben
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There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Writing is the flip side of sex - it's good only when it's over.

Hunter S. Thompson
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Writing isn't letters on paper. It's communication. It's memory.

Isaac Marion
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I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.

Jack Vance
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Writing fiction, like reading fiction, is a practice in empathy.

Jennifer Haigh
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I'm not really one to be on camera, I'd rather be writing songs.

Jon Foreman
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The appeal of writing is primarily the investigation of mystery.

Joyce Carol Oates
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The only real access that I have to my mind is when I'm writing.

Kay Ryan
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Like with anything, good writing suggest itself pretty strongly.

Martin Freeman
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Writing a picture book is like writing 'War and Peace' in Haiku.

Mem Fox
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Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I love writing - it's the best. But I really hate collaboration.

Norm MacDonald
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Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.

Pat Conroy
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Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.

Paul Desmond
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Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public

Paulo Coelho
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An odd outlook on life is the beginning of good comedic writing.

Phil Vischer
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Start writing sooner. Don't wait for permission. Don't hesitate.

Robin Hobb
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A multivalent culture is an amazing place to be writing theatre.

Sarah Ruhl
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Writing ... is a profession that can only be learned by writing.

Simone de Beauvoir
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Writing should be testimony to the vast flow of life through us.

Victor Serge
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writing is the profound pleasure and being read the superficial.

Virginia Woolf
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I like simple writing. I'd rather read Hemingway than Burroughs.

Yannis Philippakis
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History, writing, infect after a time a man's sense of himself...

A. S. Byatt
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Write every day. Writing is a muscle that gets stronger with use.

Abbi Glines
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I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it.

Alistair MacLeod
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Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises.

Anne Lamott
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My subconscious does the writing; I don't have control over that.

Augusten Burroughs
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The goal is not writing. The goal is being a human being writing.

Barry B. Longyear
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Writing is like sex, if it's difficult you're not doing it right.

Chuck Palahniuk
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We are both drawn to surreal situations so the writing was a joy.

Dylan Moran
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Those who say they want to be writers, and aren't writing, don't.

Ernest Hemingway
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I would like to shift more into writing for and producing people.

Geddy Lee
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It's hard to build community around mediocre and mundane writing.

Guy Kawasaki
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If you dont [sic] say what you want, what's the sense of writing?

Jack Kerouac
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Yes, writing is not easy. But can any writer imagine NOT writing?

Jacqueline Woodson
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Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning.

James McBride
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You either have to write or you shouldn't be writing. That's all.

Joss Whedon
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I don't want to constantly be writing about terrorism and strife.

Lawrence Wright
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I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing.

Margaret Mahy
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Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.

Mark Twain
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I am writing my second novel for children for Simon and Schuster.

Marlee Matlin
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I didn't lie, I was writing fiction with my mouth." Homer Simpson

Matt Groening
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Learn about writing from reading. That is the right way to do it.

Maxwell Perkins
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I laugh when I'm writing. I feel like all my work is funny to me.

Micah Perks
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The first book was my first attempt at writing full-length prose.

Neil Simon
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While I'm writing, I'm far away; and when I come back, I've gone.

Pablo Neruda
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He's writing what I'm singing, and I'm writing what he's playing.

Patrick Stump
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The writing is so great on TV now; it's such a pleasure to watch.

Rose Byrne
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The only thing that makes me crazier than writing is not writing.

Sara Gruen
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TV writing is different than other mediums, involving the writer.

Tom Skerritt
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I don't always like writing, but I very much like having written.

William Gibson
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Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.

William Zinsser
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Journalism is writing that first appears in any periodic journal.

William Zinsser
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Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me.

Zane Grey
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I'm writing songs with the hope someone can get behind my feeling.

Andy Biersack
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Writing is not an end in itself but life transmuted into radiance.

Brooks Atkinson
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You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.

Carlos Fuentes
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I've been doing some writing, which I find very cathartic and fun.

Cary Elwes
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Writing is a solitary activity, it requires isolation and silence.

Dacia Maraini
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Writing is not an exercise in excision, it's a journey into sound.

E. B. White
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If writing is your practice, the only way to fail is not to write.

Gail Sher
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Structure is, for me, the most fun challenge about writing novels.

Heidi Julavits
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