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Neil Gaiman I started writing when I was...
Al Purdy I started writing when I was...
Truman Capote That isn't writing at all...
Neil Jordan I can't do a film if...
Margaret Mahy Every writer has to find their...
Kurt Loder Well, in features, and in...
Theodore Sturgeon Writing is a communication.
Shawn Wayans We like writing with each...
William Styron Let's face it, writing is hell...
Tony Hillerman How can you stop writing?
Trish Stratus And that's what I've learned...
Sara Gilbert You know what you are best...
Anne Tyler For me, writing something down...
Laurie Anderson Writing about music is like...
Jean-Jacques Annaud To do the writing, I have...
Walter Hill I get a great high from...
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Writing only leads to more...
Bret Michaels I'm addicted to creating and...
Lord Acton Learn as much by writing as...
William H. Gass Getting even is one reason for...
Benjamin Franklin Either write something worth reading...
Benjamin Franklin If you would not be forgotten...
Anthony Trollope There is no way of writing...
Benjamin Franklin If you would not be forgotten...
Debbie Harry I really, really like writing...
Marsha Norman Dreams are illustrations... from the...
Mother Teresa I am a little pencil in...
Ted Shackelford I have no interest in writing...
Ralph Waldo Emerson One must be an inventor to...
Ralph Waldo Emerson There is creative reading as...
John Milius I've always been able to...
Ralph Waldo Emerson Every sentence spoken by Napoleon...
Mark Twain Substitute "damn" every time you're...
Elizabeth David Writing doesn't come easily to...
Michael Shanks I think the writing on the...
Samuel Butler When a man is in doubt...
Sally Kirkland I have some great stories and...
Horace Good sense is both the first...
Gloria Steinem Writing is the only thing that...
Laurence Housman I have always been a writer...
David Friedman When my writing really started...
Billy Joel I'm probably writing music now...
C. S. Forester There is no other way of...
Elliott Smith I'm just writing songs about...
Alison Bechdel For some reason writing and...
Elizabeth Bowen The importance to the writer...
Jean M. Auel I started writing to please...
Randy Castillo There are no rules to writing...
Jackie Collins I have written 20 books, and...
Octavia Butler I talked to members of my...
Mohandas Gandhi We do not need to proselytise...
Daphne du Maurier When one is writing a novel...
Matthew Ashford It ended up being a very...
Mason Cooley There are different rules for...
David Hackworth Writing with you is the only...
Yancy Butler I am so happy to be...
Winston Churchill I am never going to have...
Tobias Wolff Like so many writers I started...
Steven Wright I'm writing a book. I've got...
Jackie Collins Do not copy my style! The...
Anne McCaffrey I have always used emotion as...
Garry Marshall There's no better satisfaction than...
Gustave Flaubert Writing is a dog's life, but...
Leo Ornstein I'm really interested in writing...
Suzanne Vega Writing is always personal in...
Tom Jenkinson My history is really playing...
Alison Moyet I was writing and I have...
Joanna Newsom I wasn't interested in writing...
Kristin Hersh The songs keep on writing...
Geddy Lee I would like to shift more...
Irvine Welsh Writing is about culture and...
John Sladek Whatever I'm reading at the...
Cynthia Weil There is the great creative...
Nana Visitor The point of writing my name...
James Daly And I love writing. I've...
Robert Parker I think finally good writing...
Alexander Pope True ease in writing comes...
Anthony Doerr I guess you could say I've...
Lesley Gore I think I turned to writing...
Emma Lazarus I am never going to write...
John Entwistle I am writing a book and...
Guillermo C. Infante American literature had always considered...
A. B. Yehoshua The most difficult and complicated...
Josh Silver Well, Peter has a writing...
Meg Cabot Write the kind of story you...
Margaret Mahy I, personally, have found reading...
Cyril Connolly Always be nice to those...
Lenny Kravitz I never sit down to write...
Jackson Browne I'd have to say that my...
Thomas Mann A writer is somebody for whom...
Anna Quindlen I read and walked for miles...
Laura Hillenbrand I had been writing professionally...
Tobias Wolff You don't teach information in...
Susan Sontag The truth is always something...
Casper Van Dien I've always loved writing.
Donna Tartt Actually, I enjoy the process...
Jean M. Auel Life sometimes gets in the way...
Laurence Sterne Writing, when properly managed, (as...
Thomas Perry I held a variety of jobs...
Hugh Lofting I make no claim to be...
John Adams When people talk of the...
Neil Young I didn't really know what I...
Fred Saberhagen At this stage, my chief...
Derek Walcott If you know what you are...
Kate DiCamillo Understand, I had absolutely no...
Bell Hooks I began writing a book on...
Poppy Z. Brite I'd much rather do an...
Ken Follett When I'm writing a woman...
Adam Clymer I thought writing about somebody...
Larry Wall Many days I don't write any...
Jack Vance I just wrote what I felt...
Francis Bacon Reading maketh a full man...
Warren Cuccurullo Plus, we spend most of our...
Leo Ornstein In writing music, the structure...
Lee Iacocca The discipline of writing something...
Andy Gibb I'll have to get people to...
Zane Grey What is writing but an...
Robert Parker Send it to someone who can...
Mary Oliver I worked probably 25 years by...
Christopher Darden Writing is hard work, but a...
Robert Parker I really don't know what I...
Jimmy Webb The people who are making...
Mackenzie Astin I think I would have a...
Bruce Springsteen I was always concerned with...
Thomas Carlyle Writing is a dreadful labor...
Joseph Heller Every writer I know has...
Enya Writing music on your own...
Leo Ornstein I think there have been some...
Anais Nin If you do not breathe through...
Glenn Tipton I have a lot to do...
Ernest Hemingway If a writer knows enough about...
Alice Hoffman I'm much faster now. When you...
Chris Isaak I think I'm in a really...
Michael Connelly I think I would spend the...
Michael Ironside I took acting lessons when I...
Gwendolyn Brooks I felt that I had to...
Matt LeBlanc And if you have great writing...
Jane Asher I think all good writing is...
Will Rogers In Hollywood the woods are...
Jeanette Winterson Everything in writing begins with...
Richard Harding Davis The secret of good writing is...
Octavia Butler Well, writing was what I...
David Guterson When I went to college I...
Dustin Hoffman I did some writing and bought...
Ivana Trump Fiction writing is great. You...
Margaret Mahy I was able to work out...
Moliere Writing is like prostitution. First...
Neil Gaiman I loved writing a book in...
Harrison Birtwistle People say my music is English...
Robert Morgan Neither of my parents has been...
Stephen Ambrose Writing is not the easiest way...
Marjane Satrapi The first writing of the human...
Laurell K. Hamilton I've lost track of the number...
Norman MacCaig I never think about poetry...
Fred Saberhagen I started writing seriously about...
Joanna Newsom I have writing songs on my...
Nathaniel Hawthorne Easy reading is damn hard...
Gene Fowler The best way to become a...
Tracy Kidder At first, I spend about four...
Wole Soyinka Even when I'm writing plays I...
Flannery O'Connor I am a writer because writing...
Anne Tyler If I waited till I felt...
Billy Sherwood I wasn't really writing with...
Charles King I have grown in my writing...
Robert Frost Writing free verse is like...
Ernest Hemingway I've tried to reduce profanity...
Larry David And eventually as I kept...
Jeffrey Archer I'm passionate again about writing...
R. A. Salvatore It got so bad that by...
Kaavya Viswanathan When I was writing, I...
Keren Ann I spend a lot of time...
John Milius Also, they don't understand - writing...
Jhumpa Lahiri When I sit down to write...
Leon Uris Research to me is as important...
Nora Roberts I loved the process of writing...
Nora Roberts I'd always loved to read - and...
Irwin Shaw Writing is finally play, and...
F. Scott Fitzgerald All good writing is swimming...
Otis Blackwell When I started writing it was...
Lloyd Alexander After seven years of writing...
Andy Summers Of course the playing is...
Al Alvarez Now, if, as I think, writing...
Lillian Hellman If I had to give young...
Randy Johnson Maybe I've lost a little, but...
Michael Pollan Anyway, in my writing I've...
Kenzaburo Oe However, please allow me to...
Alice Hoffman Every time I finish a book...
Ernest Hemingway I learned never to empty the...
Octavia Butler I began reading science fiction...
Matthew Vaughn And writing I think is a...
Ville Valo That music and the lyrical...
Harold Pinter Good writing excites me, and...
Mordecai Richler If you're writing a novel...
Isadora Duncan The first essential in writing...
Jack K. Cooke Nobody's going to write a book...
Rick Schroder I really enjoy the writing...
Steve Buscemi I'm terrible at story and...
Rebecca West Writing has nothing to do with...
David Byrne I didn't have any agenda or...
Don DeLillo For me, writing is a...
Peter M. Davies If you're writing a piece for...
Irvine Welsh There is a kind of mysticism...
Robert Morgan I write as a way of...
Jewel Kilcher Writing is a really good first...
Lynn Abbey For me, writing a short story...
Jackie DeShannon There was a lot of great...
Piers Anthony Keep writing, because not only...
Robert Morgan I don't think the creative...
Ellen Muth If I did anything 'next,' I...
David McCullough I had been writing for about...
Doris Lessing I don't know much about...
Kenneth Koch Once I start writing about...
Ernest Hemingway When writing a novel a writer...
Frank McCourt I just have to proceed as...
Michael Pollan Yes, I very much like to...
David Brin My education and background thoroughly...
Sue Grafton I started writing seriously when...
Mike Rutherford Seventy percent of what I...
Paddy Chayefsky Artists don't talk about art...
Jeffrey Archer I'm not taking any interest in...
Kathie Lee Gifford I would never want to hurt...
Tony Hillerman I am 82 years old. I...
Cynthia Weil Even when I think I'm writing...
Alison Bechdel Sometimes I wish the writing...
Robert Frost I have never started a poem...
Joan Armatrading When I was younger I was...
Rick Springfield I've been writing songs since...
Paul Simon I'm not in it for the...
Donna Tartt It's hard for me to show...
George Orwell In our time political speech...
James Herriot I think it was the fact...
Nicholas Sparks Publishing is a business. Writing...
Robert Benchley It took me fifteen years to...
Alex Haley In my writing, as much as...
Tennessee Williams If the writing is honest it...
Anne Morrow Lindbergh I must write it all out...
Anne McCaffrey That's what writing is all...
Robert Frost Talking is a hydrant in the...
John Milius Writing requires a great deal...
Guy Clark I have no reason to sit...
Stephen Collins Writing a book is such a...
Tim Cahill Publishing your work is important...
Dave Barry The problem with writing about...
V. S. Naipaul That element of surprise is...
Robert Kirkman I have trouble writing if I...
David Ogden Stiers Writing is hard work. Generating...
Clarence Day There is an art of reading...
Mercedes Lackey I always work from an outline...
E. B. White Writing is hard work and bad...
W. Somerset Maugham Writing is the supreme solace.
Virgil Thomson Reviewing music or reviewing anything...
Nicholas Sparks There's always pressure, a great...
Rita Dove It really wasn't until I was...
Margaret Mahy I don't think I prefer writing...
Jules Renard The story I am writing exists...
Jean Jacques Rousseau However great a man's natural...
Neil Jordan It's the same thing in a...
Lukas Foss The creative act is like...
Marilyn vos Savant While you're writing, you can't...
Glenn Frey I've read somewhere that when...
Harvey Pekar People writing about me have...
Johnny Cash It's like a novelist writing...
Lucinda Williams I've had trouble being in...
Dan Fogelberg You're successful if you can...
Carl Sandburg When I was writing pretty poor...
John Zorn When I'm writing, sometimes it...
Steve Burns It's really hard to say how...
W. Somerset Maugham There are three rules for...
Irvine Welsh When people start writing there...
Barry Mann The real danger of writing a...
Naguib Mahfouz I started writing while I was...
Shelby Foote I began the way nearly...
Charles Kuralt I believe that writing is...
Keith Urban They're mostly done before we...
Ryszard Kapuscinski I'm trying to put more...
Henri Frederic Amiel It is by teaching that we...
Truman Capote To me, the greatest pleasure...
Maynard J. Keenan For me, life is writing and...
Mark-Paul Gosselaar When they do bring on new...
Geddy Lee I do love using keyboards and...
Margaret Haddix Eventually the bad stuff I'm...
George Orwell Good writing is like a...
Steven Wright My friend has a baby. I'm...
Norton Juster And when I'm writing, I write...
Irvine Welsh I think young writers should...
E. L. Doctorow Writing is an exploration. You...
Octavia Butler No one was going to stop...
Richard Price If I can tell you the...
W. Somerset Maugham Habits in writing as in life...
Corey Haim I'm trying to get in the...
Casper Van Dien And I ride horses, swim, do...
Al Alvarez I hate writing.
Piers Anthony I never do a full outline...
Scott Caan Now my drug is writing or...
Tina Brown I just simply write as it...
Boris Yeltsin One could see that what you...
W. H. Auden It is a sad fact about...
Jack Vance The story was such that I...
Kathy Valentine When we finished the tour we...
Barry Mann You have to be very brave...
Atom Egoyan When you're working with a...
Joseph Addison Among all kinds of Writing...
Ernest Hemingway There is nothing to writing...
David McCullough I can fairly be called an...
David Cronenberg Re-writing is different from...
Jim Barksdale One problem was that my direct...
William Strunk, Jr. Vigorous writing is concise. A...
Philip Pullman My only real claim to anyone's...
Herman Hesse Writing is good, thinking is...
Virginia Woolf This is not writing at all...
R. A. Salvatore Writing a book for me, I...
Michael Palin I think some of the best...
Hugh Prather If the desire to write is...
Chantal Kreviazuk If I'm writing strictly for...
Patrick Dennis I always start writing with a...
Naguib Mahfouz I didn't make any money from...
Leo Burnett If you can't turn yourself...
Caroline B. Cooney If you write a story based...
Marshall McLuhan Far more thought and care go...
Billy Sherwood I wrote songs with the guys...
Kevin Eubanks I thought people cared about...
Sting If you make your living...
Galen Rowell The reason that I keep writing...
Sidney Sheldon The part of my writing I...
Jeffery Deaver The easy answer is that...
W. H. Auden It's a sad fact about our...
Philip Pullman For that reason you can't...
Manuel Puig I started writing movie scripts...
Richard Russo By ignoring a lot of American...
Justice Brandeis There is no great writing...
David Friedman I have been writing since I...
Ernest Hemingway Writing and travel broaden your...
Phil Hartman I found the writing arena to...
Bruce Springsteen But then I go through long...
Anne Tyler I can never tell ahead of...
Fran Drescher I like writing better. Because...
Robert Penn Warren I've been to a lot of...
Sheryl Crow The writing process for me is...
LaToya Jackson Black people were very angry...
Jhumpa Lahiri You know, since the reviews...
Wallace Stegner Hard writing makes easy reading...
J. P. Donleavy Writing is turning one's worst...
Jeffery Deaver I liked the challenge of...
Karen Hughes Now, I am completely independent...
Irvine Welsh I spend so much time on...
Napoleon Hill Reduce your plan to writing...
Anne Tyler My writing day has grown...
Tom Skerritt TV writing is different than...
Barbara Taylor Bradford I work eight hours a day...
Orson Scott Card But in the meantime I became...
Don Marquis If you want to get rich...
Joseph Fiennes I love new writing, new blood...
Steven Bochco One of the problems of writing...
Mark Haddon I don't remember deciding to...
Frank McCourt I've been writing in notebooks...
Ron Chernow Writing about dead white males...
Bob Woodward Any suggestion that I'm writing...
Virginia Woolf Nothing induces me to read a...
Theodor Adorno For a man who no longer...
Douglas Coupland If someone decides to be a...
Walter Benjamin Of all the ways of acquiring...
Jeffery Deaver The best way to learn about...
Tobias Wolff Because I don't have to be...
Charles Caleb Colton Our admiration of fine writing...
Jonathan Kellerman That has to remain the...
Jason Mewes I pay attention to the actors...
Ornette Coleman I remember once, we got an...
Frances Hodgson Burnett I am writing in the garden...
Steven Wright I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography...
Eric Brown I write about five thousand...
Robert Cormier The beautiful part of writing...
Irwin Shaw Writing is like a contact...
Joyce Maynard My job is writing. I get...
Ezra Pound I consider criticism merely a...
Dick Schaap My writing improved the more I...
Val Guest Well, yes, as I was a...
Theodore Sturgeon Some major writers have a huge...
Jane Rule Writing is far too hard work...
W. Somerset Maugham There are three rules for...
Ringo Starr George was getting alot of...
Peter Fonda My abilities grow with each...
Woodrow Wilson It is like writing history...
Antonia Fraser I think crime writing is my...
Illeana Douglas I want to be an animated...
Thomas Perry It was a lot of fun...
Rex Stout I still can't decide which is...
John McGahern I think technique can be...
Ann Beattie While I would agree that I...
Trevor Rabin I've done that quite often...
Anita Hill Well, of course it was a...
Daniel K. Moran It's very strange writing science...
Orson Scott Card I fell into playwriting accidentally...
Augusten Burroughs The secret to being a writer...
Jack Prelutsky There's not too much difference...
Adam Rickitt I realised that the only time...
Irene Cara The situation is not good with...
Michael P. Anderson Like most kids growing up, I...
Stanley Schmidt This means I must pay close...
Robert Morgan Some people swear by writing...
Richard Russo I was pretty dead set against...
Jack Vance I got done writing Ports of...
Robert Cormier I can't remember a time...
Christopher Darden I did not think that I...
George Stephen When I decided to take writing...
Judy Collins I don't think you get to...
Beverly Cleary I enjoy writing for third and...
Ernie Pyle But to the fighting soldier...
Judy Holliday I suppose that if I could...
Robert Benchley It took me fifteen years to...
Joni Mitchell At the point where I'm trying...
Ross Perot Action is greater than writing...
John Sayles For me the writing, when I'm...
Alan Dean Foster Keep writing. Try to do a...
Ville Valo Yeah I'm still writing. I've...
Peter M. Davies I'm not actually teaching any...
J. M. Coetzee If it is indeed impossible...
Lisa Whelchel When I did start writing books...
Bruce Cockburn The second half of the '60s...
Nicholas Sparks What's the challenge in writing...
Joe Sacco Oh, it's essential. I mean...
Irwin Shaw Special-interest magazines are dangerous...
Barry Mann You can get stale writing with...
Joshua Chamberlain I do not pretend to write...
Tom Jenkinson Just the type of music that...
E. L. Doctorow Planning to write is not...
Jonathan Carroll I read less of everything now...
Jackie Collins I don't believe in writing...
Richard Thompson As the writer, you're always a...
Ornette Coleman I've had those people very...
Robert Morgan I don't think American poetry...
Harrison Birtwistle There are rhythmic ideas which...
Judy Collins I write journals and would...
Richard Russo I have to have a character...
Russell Banks Through writing, through that process...
Quentin Tarantino To me, movies and music go...
Daniel Pinkwater I went to college, but I...
Tim LaHaye And then I met Jerry and...
Jerry B. Jenkins While writing my first 90...
Dean Koontz Writing a novel is like making...
Dean Koontz I never discuss a novel while...
Jules Renard Writing is the only profession...
Gregg Easterbrook I'm working seven days a week...
Leon Uris English of course is your...
Michael Pollan Fairness forces you - even when...
Ray Bradbury You fail only if you stop...
Robert Morgan I considered going to film...
Aharon Appelfeld The Holocaust is a central...
Octavia Butler Most of us don't have to...
Jonathan Kozol At that time, I had recently...
Nicholas Sparks In all love stories the theme...
Iris Murdoch Writing is like getting married...
Rita Dove What writing does is to reveal...
David Guterson Writing became an obsessive compulsive...
Ann Patchett I think people become consumed...
George Stephen The benefit of this kind of...
Alice Hoffman I don't really read as much...
Cyril Cusack I have tried to explore the...
Delmore Schwartz Major writing is to say what...
Van Morrison I don't feel comfortable doing...
Carl Friedrich Gauss You know that I write slowly...
Christina Aguilera I love doing normal things...
Anne Tyler It seems to me that since...
Kevin J. Anderson If I could go back in...
Jo Bonner Never in our country's history...
Robert Morgan Maybe the example of Southern...
Manuel Puig I do believe that reading can...
Tobias Wolff I teach one semester a year...
Sharon Gless And they were writing scripts...
George Stephen During that first year, I felt...
Marguerite Young There were also some cruel...
Leo Ornstein When I was speaking about...
David Cronenberg But when you're writing a...
Tracy Kidder People say you can't teach...
Catherine Drinker Bowen Writing, I think, is not apart...
Kazuo Ishiguro What is difficult is the...
Bruce Springsteen I tend to be a subscriber...
David Cronenberg I don't mind writing so I...
Dick Wolf The story drove the book. That...
Booker T. Washington No race can prosper till it...
George Stephen So, I outlined a horror novel...
Courtney Love I'm not going to hurt anybody...
Byron White We're the only branch of...
Bill Bryson I don't plan to write another...
Graham Nash Generally, my writing is influenced...
Vince Gill I can sit and analyze...
Alex Lifeson Rush has never been a...
Anne Tyler I never think about the actual...
Mark Strand Poetry is something that happens...
Anne Tyler I'm too shy for personal...
Jhumpa Lahiri I can't tell you exactly how...
Marguerite Young All my writing is about the...
James Payn One would think that in...
Piers Anthony Normally I work out a general...
Phil Collins I'm writing new songs for a...
Jessamyn West Faithfulness to the past can...
Gerry Beckley I think if you're writing from...
Sarah Sutton I don't know if you've ever...
Keith Urban It's not the case of turning...
Sheryl Crow I have been around for a...
Marilyn Hacker Given the devaluation of literature...
Sharon Gless The way they were writing...



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