It 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 BenchleyTelevision has raised writing to a new low.
Samuel GoldwynIt seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.
Joan BaezThere is no great writing, only great rewriting.
Justice BrandeisI will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again [after Harry Potter]
J K RowlingBeauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.
Christian Nestell BoveeDespite the fact that I had a writing background, they didn't want to accept whatever ideas I had as a writer.
John AmosWriting songs is great because it gets you off your ass and you have to do it.
Hugh DillonA piece of writing is like a piece of magic. You create something out of nothing.
Susanna ClarkeWriting 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 DeLilloFiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.
Ivana TrumpI spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa.
John DaltonIt 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 would sweat and think and get it all together. [On lyric writing]
Jim CapaldiWhat a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.
Liz CarpenterEssentially 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 GeorgeNever be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
Thomas A KempisI 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 LarkinThere 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 GordonWriting 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 ButlerIn 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 BorroughsThere is something very therapeutic about a piece of writing, many will tell you it is a quite cathartic experience.
James HoustonWriting a book need not be an intimidating feeling, but rather it can be liberating, fulfilling and above all immensely personally satisfying.
Gerald GriffinPeople once said they were "in" psychoanalysis, meaning they were committed to a long immersion. In a sense, they were writing their autobiographies.
R Z SheppardA life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe key to writing real characters is not to treat everybody like a real person and give everybody a good side and a bad.
Jon FavreauWriting is hard work and bad for the health.
E B WhiteEver 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 ThomasObviously 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 RowlingWould 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 MansfieldPeople 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 MehrtensEvery piece of writing... starts from what I call a grit... a sight or sound, a sentence or happening that does not pass away... but quite inexplicably lodges in the mind.
Rumer GoddenWriting and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.
John UpdikeI really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.
Denis JohnsonWhen 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 FieldsI am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.
Hilaire BellocThe digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.
Douglas EngelbartMusically 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 LangWriting is the most fun you can have by yourself.
Terry PratchettWriting is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.
Paul DesmondAll 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 AgateProviding 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 AguileraWriting is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
Gene FowlerI don't think there's much point in bemoaning the state of the world unless there's some way you can think of to improve it. Otherwise, don't bother writing a book - go and find a tropical island and lie in the sun.
Peter SingerSongwriting is one of those strange arts whereby you can have no inspiration for a long time then have a productive period where almost every day a new song is coming to you.
Nanci GriffithWriting's much the same at any age - sticking one's head out of the trench to be shot at, the better to catch some butterfly.
Fay WeldonIt is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.
Jack KerouacWriting something in the spirit of Halloween is like Mother Teresa writing on charity and sacrifice!
Danny ElfmanThe 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 DavisWhere 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 Milton
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