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- Not writing at all leads to nothing. -- Anna Quindlen
- Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered. -- Fran Lebowitz
- Not writing would be like going the rest of your life without having dreams. -- Stephen King
- Not writing the same kind of book over and over again is to me the real pleasure of what I do. -- Bill Bryson
- Writing is not fun. -- Rian Johnson
- I'm quite good at not writing. -- Ian Mcewan
- Writing a book is not a crime. -- Alexander Ahndoril
- My idea of heaven is not writing. -- Stephen Sondheim
- Writing is a calling, not a choice. -- Isabel Allende
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- I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing. -- Doris Lessing
- Writing that's not working for a living. -- Robert Asprin
- Writing and thinking is not economically sustainable. -- Jaron Lanier
- The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing. -- Marjane Satrapi
- Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century. -- Gavin Bryars
- You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only. -- Vikram Seth
- A cookbook is not like being an author. It's writing down recipes; it's not writing. -- Grant Achatz
- When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar. -- Denis Johnson
- Writing a novel is easier than writing a memoir; you are not constrained by the truth. -- Steve Bisley
- I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs. -- Joni Mitchell
- Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing. -- E. L. Doctorow
- Outlining is not writing. Coming up with ideas is not writing. Researching is not writing. Creating characters is not writing. Only writing is writing. -- Harlan Coben
- For me, most of the anxiety and difficulty of writing takes place in the act of not writing. It's the procrastination, the thinking about writing that's difficult. -- Adam Mansbach
- When I'm writing, I'm writing for a particular actor. When a lot of writers are writing, they're writing an idea. So they're not really writing in a specific voice. -- Todd Phillips
- That's not writing, that's typing -- Truman Capote
- Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration. -- Roald Dahl
- Writing does not resurrect. It buries. -- John Green
- Writing is not a McDonald's Hamburger.. -- Natalie Goldberg
- I could not think without writing. -- Jean Piaget
- Teach the writer, not the writing. -- Lucy Calkins
- Planning to write is not writing. -- E. L. Doctorow
- History-writing is not a visit of condolence. -- Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier
- Writing is a marathon, not a sprint. -- Robert McKee
- Writing is not some quiet, closet act. -- Patti Smith
- When I am not writing, I'm dying. -- Neil Diamond
- Writing thats not working for a living. -- Robert Asprin
- Writing is not primarily escape, but use. -- Henry James
- Writing is a craft not an art. -- William Zinsser
- But I'm more scared of not writing. -- Gloria E. Anzaldúa
- I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction. -- Elizabeth Moon
- Good thing you're not writing the press release. -- Adam Schiff
- I'm not writing fairy tales or object lessons. -- Junot Diaz
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- Originally I was not writing songs for myself. -- Smokey Robinson
- Originally I was not writing songs for myself -- Smokey Robinson
- I write because I can't imagine not writing. -- Richard Price
- I like writing about biology, not doing it. -- Kary Mullis
- I liked Sartre's views but not his writing. -- Tahar Ben Jelloun
- I'm not done writing songs about you yet. -- Maggie Stiefvater
- ...writing is not a performance but a generosity. -- Brenda Ueland
- Doing an experiment is not more important than writing. -- Edwin Boring
- In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless. -- Alexandre Dumas
- E-mail creates the illusion that you're writing. You're not. -- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
- I'm not writing to make anyone's children feel safe. -- J. K. Rowling
- Actually, I can't remember when I was not writing. -- Gore Vidal
- I try not get too self-aware when writing lyrics. -- Win Butler
- Retiring from writing is not to retire from life. -- Jim Crace
- Writing is not my problem, it is my solution. -- Anne Enright
- A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized. -- Suzanne Vega
- I'm not buying a boat because of writing skits. -- Jason Sudeikis
- Being a writer is not the point. Writing is. -- Mohsin Hamid
- I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing. -- Alistair MacLean
- Writing is not hard work, it is simply an obsession ... -- Hallie Burnett
- I feel terribly vulnerable and 'not-myself' when I'm not writing ... -- Sylvia Plath
- I'm just not that comfortable writing so much about myself. -- Mike Wallace
- Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. -- Georges Simenon
- Writing humor is not something every single person can do. -- Celia Rivenbark
- When I'm not writing or reading, I'm thinking about both. -- Joseph Brodsky
- I love writing. I like reading, other people, not myself. -- James Lipton
- My most pronounced writing habit is trying not to write. -- Anna Quindlen
- The core of my writing is not art but truth. -- Philip K. Dick
- Good writing does not come from verbiage but from words. -- Jeff Lindsay
- Writing does not exclude the full life; it demands it. -- Katherine Anne Porter
- Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting. -- Wallis Simpson
- Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work. -- George Gershwin
- I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process. -- St. Lucia
- Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery. -- Michel de Montaigne
- If you like not my writing, go read something else. -- Robert Burton
- Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does. -- Nancy Cartwright
- It is not a crime to commit First Degree Writing -- Temple Emmet Williams
- I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing. -- Andy Rooney
- My history is really playing live - not writing or recording. -- Squarepusher
- To my parents, writing seemed precarious and not the best idea. -- Chad Harbach
- I'm not fond of biographies. I don't like writing about myself. -- Wole Soyinka
- I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes. -- Aharon Appelfeld
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- Writing is not a profession. It's a calling. It's almost holy. -- Jamaica Kincaid
- I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing. -- Walter Lord
- Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness. -- Thomas Carlyle
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- It's hard to imagine my life not writing. I love it. -- Chris Crutcher
- My history is really playing live - not writing or recording. -- Squarepusher
- Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar. -- E. B. White
- And I tend to listen to NPR when I'm not writing. -- Augusten Burroughs
- Never judge your own writing. You're not fit to do so. -- Isaac Asimov
- I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot. -- Virginia Woolf
- Sometimes the writing leads to the revelations, not the other way around. -- Julia Glass
- Ambiguity is very interesting in writing; it's not very interesting in science. -- Janna Levin
- Writing is not about self-expression; it is about putting words on paper. -- Gordon Lish
- I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories. -- Jimmy Breslin
- Writing is the hardest work in the world not involving heavy lifting. -- Pete Hamill
- Writing is not an end in itself but life transmuted into radiance. -- Brooks Atkinson
- As a songwriter, I'm not necessarily writing about myself or my life. -- Ben Gibbard
- I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music. -- Ayumi Hamasaki
- Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? -- Virginia Woolf
- Robert Jordan, whether he's writing with passion or not, I don't know. -- Terri Windling
- Writing is not an exercise in excision, it's a journey into sound. -- E. B. White
- I'm not writing just classic-sounding songs, but songs that come from experience. -- Leon Bridges
- The only thing that makes me crazier than writing is not writing. -- Sara Gruen
- Back to work. If I'm [writing] I'm not thinking about the crazy. -- Faith Hunter
- Yes, writing is not easy. But can any writer imagine NOT writing? -- Jacqueline Woodson
- My mother was a journalist, so writing is not unnatural to me. -- Ginger Rogers
- Writing is like sex, if it's difficult you're not doing it right. -- Chuck Palahniuk
- A typical day for me is I'm writing when I'm not directing. -- Adam Rapp
- By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive. -- Louise Erdrich
- If the stuff you're writing is not for yourself, it won't work. -- Stephen King
- People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The first step in blogging is not writing them but reading them. -- Jeff Jarvis
- writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all -- Charles Bukowski
- James Joyce: His writing is not about something. It is the thing itself. -- Samuel Beckett
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