People once said they were "in" psychoanalysis, meaning they were committed to a long immersion. In a sense, they were writing their autobiographies.
R Z SheppardFiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.
Ivana TrumpProviding a voice for those who may be in a similar situation, who might need that voice is so important. They might not be able to find that in themselves, to get themselves out of that situation and make something positive out of it. Whenever I'm writing a song that's what I'm doing - making a negative a positive and healing myself in the process. [Elle UK March 2004]
Christina AguileraPlaywriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.
T S EliotMy writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.
Ernest HemingwayWriting a book need not be an intimidating feeling, but rather it can be liberating, fulfilling and above all immensely personally satisfying.
Gerald GriffinLiam is a songwriting genius. His songs make me cry 'cause they are better than mine.
Noel GallagherIt is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.
Jack KerouacPeople 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 writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander
Walter LandorMost of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else.
Ivern BallWriting something in the spirit of Halloween is like Mother Teresa writing on charity and sacrifice!
Danny ElfmanGenerally 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 TrescothickWould 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 MansfieldAll I want is a modest place in Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, and that new edition of One Thousand Best Bits of Recent Prose.
James AgateWriting stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.
Truman CapoteWriting can do without television - that infidious media seeps into all other areas of our lives as it is.
Hugo GernsbackAs you get older, it's nice to be able to relax a bit about your appearance. Writing does that for me. It comes from inside me, from my brain and from my heart, and hopefully it has much more value than anything that's on the exterior.
Emma SammsThe digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.
Douglas EngelbartIt 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 BenchleyI think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any - after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?
Philip LarkinThe art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
Gustav FlaubertWe never let go. Ever. Even with punctuation. It's frightening. I can't see anyone from any record company ever writing an email to Neil and not getting it back, with corrections.
Chris LoweInflated descriptions by the pen or exaggerated illustrations by the pencil. [On writing]
Grace DarlingWhen 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 CusslerI would sweat and think and get it all together. [On lyric writing]
Jim CapaldiI 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 ParksWriting a novel is always something that can be a traumatic experience. But it can be infinitely rewarding too.
Ellen GoodmanWriting is the most fun you can have by yourself.
Terry PratchettDespite the fact that I had a writing background, they didn't want to accept whatever ideas I had as a writer.
John AmosI 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 BanksAlmost all writing is an act of discovery for me.
Joseph EpsteinI love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.
Anthony DavisWriting is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be original; by destroying one's first productions.
Andre MauroisWriting is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness
Georges SimenonWriting 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 MidlerI like the solitude of writing.
Paul GascoigneWriting songs is great because it gets you off your ass and you have to do it.
Hugh DillonEven now a team of linguists is at work translating Don Revie's writings on the game [of football] from the original gibberish into Arabic.
Michael ParkinsonThe 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 BakerOriginality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
Isaac SingerAll the rest is mere fine writing. (Art poetique)
Paul VerlaineEither write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Benjamin FranklinI will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again [after Harry Potter]
J K RowlingI wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing. (Emblems)
Francis QuarlesI am a drinker with writing problems.
Brendan BehanThere'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 DeaverI really want to get into writing film music. I'm really passionate about that.
Vanessa BrownShake[speare] was a dramatist of note; He lived by writing things to quote.
H C BunnerWhen I am writing, I focus one hundred percent on my writing. Then, by the time I'm half way through the book, I'm already thinking about the ending.
Anita Desai
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