Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Benjamin FranklinThe process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.
Elias CanettiTrue, 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 NietzscheWriting is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.
Paul DesmondI don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally dull and trying to make them interesting.
Bill BrysonLife cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing; for life itself is a writer's love until death.
Edna FerberNever be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
Thomas A KempisWriting a novel is always something that can be a traumatic experience. But it can be infinitely rewarding too.
Ellen GoodmanI write when the urge hits me, getting the words down as fast as I can type and then I step back from what I just wrote and start a dialectical process where I begin challenging my own writing.
Donald McKayThe sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.
Kenneth TynanI wish that dear Karl could have spent more time acquiring capital instead of merely writing about it.
Jenny MarxWriting is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
Iris MurdochIt 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 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 WelshWhere 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 MiltonI wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing. (Emblems)
Francis QuarlesAs far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.
Boris PasternakTalent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary
Jessamyn WestWriting 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 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 LessingWriting can do without television - that infidious media seeps into all other areas of our lives as it is.
Hugo GernsbackEssentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence of events that grow from an initial incident that alters the status quo of the characters. [on the science, or art, of writing a book]
Elizabeth GeorgeOriginality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
Isaac SingerIt 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 once said they were "in" psychoanalysis, meaning they were committed to a long immersion. In a sense, they were writing their autobiographies.
R Z SheppardWriting has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.
Rebecca WestThe secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.
Richard Harding DavisI am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.
Hilaire BellocI would sweat and think and get it all together. [On lyric writing]
Jim CapaldiEngland has the most sordid literary scene I've ever seen. They all meet in the same pub. This guy's writing a foreword for this person. They all have to give radio programs, they have to do all this just in order to scrape by. They're all scratching each other's backs.
William S BurroughsWriting 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 ButlerI am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.
Frances Hodgson BurnettMost of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else.
Ivern BallEven 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 ParkinsonLiam is a songwriting genius. His songs make me cry 'cause they are better than mine.
Noel GallagherObviously 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 RowlingThe art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
Gustav FlaubertI 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 PasternakWould 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 MansfieldShake[speare] was a dramatist of note; He lived by writing things to quote.
H C BunnerI 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 Larkin'If you're writing songs, there are two things that you just don't write about: politics and religion. We write about both.'
BonoInflated descriptions by the pen or exaggerated illustrations by the pencil. [On writing]
Grace DarlingMy writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.
Ernest HemingwayGenerally 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 TrescothickIn 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 BorroughsBeauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.
Christian Nestell BoveeTelevision has raised writing to a new low.
Samuel GoldwynThe difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.
Norman MailerWriting and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.
John Updike
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