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I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it’s done in handwriting. Nelson DeMille
I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard. Charles Bukowski
I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the other hand, the generation which interprets these writings will be an educated generation; they will understand me and say: ‘Not all were asleep in the nighttime of our grandparents.’ Jose Rizal
I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I’ve never had any formal training in writing. Khaled Hosseini
I’m vegan, though not completely religious about it. While writing ‘Sapiens,’ I became familiar with how we treat animals in the meat and dairy industries. I was so horrified that I didn’t want to be a part of it anymore. Yuval Noah Harari
I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it. Ernest Hemingway
No amount of money can replace the kind of happiness and satisfaction I derive out of writing. Sreenivasan
I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame. Alice Walker
In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing. Will Rogers
We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, ‘What is real?’ Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. Philip K. Dick
It is not Kafka’s fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have neither the ability nor the desire to absorb literature. Hermann Hesse
Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. E. L. Doctorow
Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. Jorge Luis Borges
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. Thomas Mann
You get a lot of who you are as a musician across through the music you write. If you’re writing your own music, then it’s important to be really honest. Harry Styles
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. Ernest Hemingway
Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose… anything goes. Cole Porter
Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times. Patricia Reilly Giff
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make. Truman Capote
The biggest takeaway from a memoir is that you have to play fair. Within the first draft, I was writing very angrily because I had a lot of resentment and a lot to process. Through revision is where a lot of learning happened and a lot of forgiveness happened. Michelle Zauner
There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white. Rebecca Solnit
As long as it’s making you happy and you’re enjoying it, then you should never stop writing music. Whether it’s going to take you somewhere, viewed by other people, or it’s literally you in a bedroom at home, it should be something that you do for yourself. Ella Henderson
I’ve never been a very prolific person, so when creativity flows, it flows. I find myself scribbling on little notepads and pieces of loose paper, which results in a very small portion of my writings to ever show up in true form. Kurt Cobain
Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought? Joan Didion
Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped sentences. In your voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your heart, your soul. Meg Rosoff
Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action. Paul J. Meyer
Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that I was going to end up writing briefs for about ten years for these fellows who I thought I was smarter than. And I was kind of losing my feeling for that. John Wayne
Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile… a stain upon the silence. Samuel Beckett
Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you have the talent to be able to write and to draw, it seems a shame to choose one. I think it’s better to do both. Marjane Satrapi
Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. Gene Fowler
I feel like I’m too busy writing history to read it. Kanye West
What I like about writing is the sense of godlike power it gives you. Wilbur Smith
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business. John Steinbeck
The heart and soul of good writing is research; you should write not what you know but what you can find out about. Robert J. Sawyer
Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script. Conrad Hall
Writing is like any other sort of sport. In order for you to get better at it, you have to exercise the muscle. Jason Reynolds
Coding is like writing, and we live in a time of the new industrial revolution. What’s happened is that maybe everybody knows how to use computers, like they know how to read, but they don’t know how to write. Susan Wojcicki
I’ve always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giants or elves or dwarves, or whatever they are, they’re still human, and the human heart is still in conflict with the self. George R. R. Martin
All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath. F. Scott Fitzgerald
You can’t build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened people are running around with edged weaponry, there are deaths. Stupid deaths, usually. I’m not writing ‘The A-Team’ – if there’s a fight going on, people will get hurt. Not letting this happen would be a betrayal. Terry Pratchett
Searching for music is like searching for God. They’re very similar. There’s an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don’t exist. David Bowie
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. Martin Mull
Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors – it’s how you combine them that sets you apart. Wolfgang Puck
There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate – not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all. Oscar Wilde
Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very’; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. Mark Twain
Learn as much by writing as by reading. John Dalberg-Acton
Writing means sharing. It’s part of the human condition to want to share things – thoughts, ideas, opinions. Paulo Coelho
Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl. Anne Frank
I’m always getting texts asking why I’m not responding on Instagram or Facebook, and I’m like, ‘It’s not me. You’re writing to some stranger.’ Travis Fimmel
Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day – like writing a poem or saying a prayer. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
‘Walking and Talking’ is my autobiography. It’s best to do it that way, rather than spend months writing a book that then ends up in the bargain bucket with all the other idiots’ autobiographies. Kathy Burke
All the nice things about Suzanne are me. All the things that aren’t nice, that was just the writing. Delta Burke
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. W. Somerset Maugham
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. Isaac Asimov
The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning. A. B. Yehoshua
To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I’m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I’m going to play for the opening sequence. Quentin Tarantino
I become a very different person when Im writing music. I have zero anxiety when Im doing it. Renee Rapp
Cosmic terror appears as an ingredient of the earliest folklore of all races and is crystallised in the most archaic ballads, chronicles, and sacred writings. H. P. Lovecraft
Many are ready, when listening to the inventor, to belittle and deny his achievements so that he will no longer be heard in honourable places, but after some months or a year, they use the inventor’s words in speech or writing or design. Filippo Brunelleschi
Don’t worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life. Michael Morpurgo
You don’t write a book. You write a sentence and then a paragraph and then a page and then a chapter. Looking at writing 400 plus pages or seventy thousand odd words is incredibly daunting, but if you just focus on the immediate picture – say, 500 words – it’s not so overwhelming. Rebecca Serle
Never think you can’t do something. I definitely never thought I could write a book, and even after I started writing it, I was like, ‘Oh my God, how am I gonna write a book?’ Just set your sights high and reach for the stars. Go live your dreams, and never think you can’t. Connor Franta
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar. E. B. White
The real beauty of it – key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing. Vince Gill
Esoteric or inner knowledge is no different from other kinds of human knowledge and ability. It is a mystery for the average person only to the extent that writing is a mystery for those who have not yet learned to write. Rudolf Steiner
In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing. Langston Hughes
A lazy man works twice as hard. My mother told that to me, and now I say it to my kids. If you’re writing an essay, keep it in the lines and in the margins so you don’t have to do it over. Gary Oldman
I’m very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television. Johnny Cash
I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody. Stephen King
There’s no such thing as perfect writing, just like there’s no such thing as perfect despair. Haruki Murakami
Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything. Ivana Trump
I am a writer… I am a genius of a writer; I have it in me. I am writing the best poems of my life; they will make my name. Sylvia Plath
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. Francis Bacon
I don’t know how I started rapping. The first I did was at school. I tried writing one. I liked it. People started to like it. It was what I wanted to do. YoungBoy Never Broke Again
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live. Theodor W. Adorno
I listened to this interview once with Jerry Seinfeld that really influenced my comedy and all of my writing, which is that when you’re starting out in comedy, it’s the audience that tells you what’s funny about you. And you need to listen to that and make a note of that. Mike Birbiglia
My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings. Mary Shelley
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. Booker T. Washington
Writing is like sewing together what I call these ‘buttons,’ these bits and pieces. Sandra Cisneros
I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort. Toni Morrison
And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss. J. K. Rowling
Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it’s right, it’s easy. It’s the other way round, too. If it’s slovenly written, then it’s hard to read. It doesn’t give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader. Maya Angelou
I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done. Steven Wright
Letters are something from you. It’s a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail. Keanu Reeves
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. William Strunk, Jr.
A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I’m writing about New York. Lana Del Rey
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. Robert Frost
The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is. Susan Sontag
You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That’s why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence. Octavia E. Butler
The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing. Douglas Engelbart
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire. Napoleon Hill
Through my writing, I have made new friends and continued to learn about this world of ours in all its wonder, with all its challenges. Sonia Levitin
When I do have free time, I spend it with friends, or I spend it at home writing or making something. Billie Eilish
Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy – which many believe goes hand in hand with it – will be dead as well. Margaret Atwood
Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read. Ross Perot
I think it would be cool if you were writing a ransom note on your computer, if the paper clip popped up and said, ‘Looks like you’re writing a ransom note. Need help? You should use more forceful language, you’ll get more money.’ Demetri Martin
Writing is like a ‘lust,’ or like ‘scratching when you itch.’ Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out. C. S. Lewis
Be patient, work hard and consistently, have faith in your writing, and don’t be afraid to listen to constructive criticism. Jonathan Galassi
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. Benjamin Franklin