I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again [after Harry Potter]
J K RowlingThere is no great writing, only great rewriting.
Justice BrandeisA 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 CrothersI have been writing in spurts, bit by bit. It is incredibly difficult. Everything is corroded, broken, dismantled; everything is covered with hardened layers of accumulated insensitivity, deafness, entrenched routine. It is disgusting.
Boris PasternakWriting, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.
Laurence SterneThere is something wonderful about singing and writing music, I think there is something special about creativity and the ability humans have in that area.
Kim GordonWhen 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 CusslerIn the writing of memoirs, as in the production of shows, too much caution causes the audience to nod and think of other channels.
Gerald ClarkeLooking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.
Katherine MansfieldWhen you are writing poetry I often observe this serene sort of calmness that possesses you and takes you quite away from the immediate realities of life.
Annie FieldsWhere 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 MiltonThe key to writing real characters is not to treat everybody like a real person and give everybody a good side and a bad.
Jon FavreauMy two best pieces would have to be Ghosts of Mississippi and my new film Bookworm. Bookworm was special for me to do because I really idolize the writings of Mamet. Also, I got to work with Tony Hopkins, and I really love Tony.
Alec BaldwinI don't give a toss about writing really. It's a bit ironic that the things I'm really into are music and football, and I have never really been good at either.
Irvine WelshShake[speare] was a dramatist of note; He lived by writing things to quote.
H C BunnerThe only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.
Russell BakerIt took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Robert BenchleyObviously 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 is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
Iris MurdochA life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowMusically I wanted to explore my songwriting, branching out into my music. I’ve been playing blues since I started, and I wanted to go in more of a soul, R&B direction.
Jonny LangTo me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.
Truman CapoteTelevision has raised writing to a new low.
Samuel GoldwynWriting a novel is always something that can be a traumatic experience. But it can be infinitely rewarding too.
Ellen GoodmanRight now, I'm writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a play. Toying with an idea for a documentary. I hope one of these will eventually be launched into the light of day.
Anita DiamentThe writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander
Walter LandorIf a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
Ernest HemingwayI began writing after my child was seriously hurt in a day care center accident, and I wanted to come home to be with her during her recovery.
Leslie BanksPlaywriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.
T S EliotAlways be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Cyril ConnollyWriting saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
Alice WalkerWriting is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.
Don DeLilloThere are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
W Somerset MaughamWriting is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.
Octavia ButlerFiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.
Ivana TrumpWriting can do without television - that infidious media seeps into all other areas of our lives as it is.
Hugo GernsbackWriting books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
Norman MailerWriting songs is super intimate. It's a bit like getting naked.
Gwen StefaniThe 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 WymanIn 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 FarnolSometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.
Gene FowlerMy writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.
Ernest HemingwayI really want to get into writing film music. I'm really passionate about that.
Vanessa BrownOriginality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
Isaac SingerA writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people
Thomas MannThe sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.
Kenneth TynanI was always a bit reluctant with anything like fame and the limelight and it didn't sit very well with me, although I love singing and writing.
Alex ParksIt has also contained come of the very best, most accessible writing for children, by writers who seldom get the acknowledgement they deserve [on Fantasy genre]
Terry PratchettI wish that dear Karl could have spent more time acquiring capital instead of merely writing about it.
Jenny MarxWriting a book need not be an intimidating feeling, but rather it can be liberating, fulfilling and above all immensely personally satisfying.
Gerald Griffin
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