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There is no great writing, only great rewriting.
Justice Brandeis

If you're writing a catchphrase before you write a character, then that's not a good thing.
Catherine Tate

Essentially 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 George

Writing is a lonely job, unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach.
Emilio Estevez

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness
Georges Simenon

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 Rowling

Songwriting 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 Griffith

Television has raised writing to a new low.
Samuel Goldwyn

Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
Adlai E Stevenson

The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.
Kenneth Tynan

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.
Tennessee Williams

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin

I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories.
Eric Brown

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself
Truman Capote

I 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 McKay

I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.
Denis Johnson

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
Gustav Flaubert

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.
Rebecca West

People 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 Mehrtens

The 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 Mailer

Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days.
John Pilger

I always start writing with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind.
Patrick Dennis

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.
Douglas Engelbart

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.
Christian Nestell Bovee

The key to writing real characters is not to treat everybody like a real person and give everybody a good side and a bad.
Jon Favreau

Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.
Gene Fowler

Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.
Ivana Trump

When 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 Cussler

Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else.
Ivern Ball

I'm supposed to be taking time off. But I'm still writing and I have this Gap advert lined up.
Joss Stone

Even 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 Parkinson

Writing a novel is always something that can be a traumatic experience. But it can be infinitely rewarding too.
Ellen Goodman

Every 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 Godden

If 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 Hemingway

Writing songs is great because it gets you off your ass and you have to do it.
Hugh Dillon

True, 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 Nietzsche

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people
Thomas Mann

All 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 Agate

My 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 Baldwin

'If you're writing songs, there are two things that you just don't write about: politics and religion. We write about both.'
Bono

'Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.'
Courtney Love

When 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

Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.
Katherine Mansfield

The 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 Baker

In the writing of memoirs, as in the production of shows, too much caution causes the audience to nod and think of other channels.
Gerald Clarke

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.
Truman Capote

In 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 Borroughs

Generally 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 Trescothick

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
Alice Walker

Writing'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 Weldon



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