Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
Roald Dahl

So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain.
Leon Uris

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

Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built.
Leon Uris

I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do.
Leon Uris

English of course is your major tool, but it is not nearly so important as other aspects of writing for example you have to have some natural ability you can't buy it no one puts it there you're born with it.
Leon Uris

Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about.
Leon Uris

I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps.
Leon Uris

One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there.
Stephen Sondheim

When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.
Stephen Sondheim

I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.
Stephen Sondheim

Television has raised writing to a new low.
Samuel Goldwyn

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.
Ross Perot

Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.
W. Somerset Maugham

Writing is the supreme solace.
W. Somerset Maugham

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

I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose.
Shelby Foote

If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach you everything you need to know about writing.
Shelby Foote

I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry.
Shelby Foote

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
Horace