I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
Doris LessingI always did my best in writing to Santa Claus, but I never thought of writing as something you did for a profession.
Dee BrownIn my writing I am acting as a map-maker, an explorer of psychic areas... a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
William BorroughsAlmost all writing is an act of discovery for me.
Joseph EpsteinRevision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing
Bernard MalamudA piece of writing is like a piece of magic. You create something out of nothing.
Susanna ClarkeWriting a novel is always something that can be a traumatic experience. But it can be infinitely rewarding too.
Ellen GoodmanBeauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.
Christian Nestell BoveeThe hardest part is developing the idea, and that can take years. [on writing a novel]
Eric CarleThe process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.
Elias CanettiInflated descriptions by the pen or exaggerated illustrations by the pencil. [On writing]
Grace DarlingObviously there will be a sense of achievement... I suppose there will be some benefits to not writing Harry Potter books any more. So it is about fifty-fifty really
J K RowlingWriting, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.
Laurence SterneEver since I can remember, I've always wanted to tell stories, but I never had the patience to sit down at a typewriter and write short stories or anything like that. I started writing songs as a way of communicating ideas the best way I could.
Rob ThomasWriting is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
Iris MurdochThe best thing is that I'm no longer confined to writing heavy rock songs like Mich and Keith, who seem to have run out of ideas.
Bill WymanWriting is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
Gene FowlerThe writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander
Walter LandorWhen I first started writing, I was in advertising at the time, I was doing most of my writing on weekends. I had studied most of the other series heroes and I figured it would be fun for mine to be different and put him in and around water.
Clive CusslerLooking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.
Katherine MansfieldWriting a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
Bette MidlerOn what? [when asked if he had ever thought of writing an autobiography!]
Chris EubankDespite the fact that I had a writing background, they didn't want to accept whatever ideas I had as a writer.
John AmosThe art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
Gustav FlaubertWhere there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.
John MiltonTalent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary
Jessamyn WestWriting is the most fun you can have by yourself.
Terry PratchettWhat a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.
Liz CarpenterMy writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.
Ernest HemingwayPeople seem to be writing off England and that's a dangerous thing to do.
They have a lot of very good players and just because they haven't been going well over the last year and a bit, it doesn't mean they can't win anymore!
Andrew MehrtensThe sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.
Kenneth TynanWriting is a lonely job, unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach.
Emilio EstevezI really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.
Denis JohnsonGenerally the people out on the pitch are the ones who know how to play the game, not the people who are writing about it.
Marcus TrescothickI always start writing with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind.
Patrick DennisWhen I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.
Tennessee Williams'Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.'
Courtney LoveI love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.
Anthony DavisI would sweat and think and get it all together. [On lyric writing]
Jim CapaldiIn the writing of books, as all the world knows, two things are above all other things essential - the one is to know exactly when and where to leave off, and the other to be equally certain when and where to begin.
Jeffrey FarnolA prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
Samuel CrothersTrue, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
[Thus Spoke Zarathustra from the Chapter 'Of Reading and Writing']
Friedrich NietzscheWould you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people.
Katherine MansfieldI am a drinker with writing problems.
Brendan BehanPeople once said they were "in" psychoanalysis, meaning they were committed to a long immersion. In a sense, they were writing their autobiographies.
R Z SheppardAll the rest is mere fine writing. (Art poetique)
Paul VerlaineOrwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days.
John PilgerThere's nothing like music. It's seductive, it's all-consuming, it's emotional, it's infinitely creative... I was a singer-songwriter, not particularly talented musically [that's never stopped anyone before] but drawn to the craft of songwriting.
Jeffrey DeaverIn the writing of memoirs, as in the production of shows, too much caution causes the audience to nod and think of other channels.
Gerald ClarkeMy ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
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