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I just want to keep writing music. -- Lady Gaga
I keep writing because it is deeply pleasurable to me. -- Cathy Marie Buchanan
The only real advice you can give anyone is to keep writing. -- David Sedaris
Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape. -- Ed Westwick
When you're a songwriter and you click with someone, you tend to want to keep writing with that person. -- Billy Sherwood
The M.F.A. is a degree in servitude. It is a way to keep writing safe - to keep reading safe from writing. -- Joshua Cohen
The most important advice I can offer is that writing is a craft that you can learn by practicing. If you keep writing, you will improve. -- Lauren Tarshis
There are all these things I want to do when I don't have to finish a book. But I have to keep writing because I keep having children. -- Robert K. Massie
I use writing as a counselling session - recently I've written a song for Paloma Faith, so after being a singer, I'm happy to keep writing for other people. -- Ella Eyre
If I had to give up everything else and keep just one aspect of the job, I'd have to keep writing because I love it. Yes, I enjoy performing, too. But I couldn't give up writing material. -- Colin Quinn
It's okay to be crazy as long as you keep writing and are happy. -- Lori Lesko
She can't keep writing about what a tragic little hero I am, it'll get boring. -- J. K. Rowling
To find the courage to keep writing after constant failure is awesomeness. Winning is eminent. -- Sereda Aleta Dailey
Shame can kill the imagination. It's hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision. -- Eloisa James
Just write, get better, keep writing, keep getting better. It's the only thing you can control. -- Roger Ebert
As long as one person reads the bullshit I put on paper, and likes it, i'll keep writing. -- Benjamin Bayani
Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing. -- Bonnie Friedman
To be honest I'd just love to keep writing hits for other people... That's kind of my secret dream. -- Charli XCX
i still have no way to survive but to keep writing one line, one more line, one more line... -- Yukio Mishima
Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible. -- Fisher Stevens
The biggest sacrifice to me is to not be in an atmosphere where I can keep writing and moving forward. -- Trey Anastasio
My main thing is just to keep writing. I've been doing some songwriting that's for my own record, I suppose. -- Conor Oberst
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[Townies] was a huge cast. It was a bit ungainly, I think with 12 regular characters they had to keep writing for. -- Eric McCormack
It's amazing what I could've written in my life if I had realized that I should keep writing and not masturbating. -- Lewis Black
The only advice anybody can give is, if you wanna be a writer, keep writing. And read all you can, read everything. -- Stan Lee
There is always a gap between conception and execution. We keep writing in the burning hope of closing that gap before we die. -- Janette Turner Hospital
I don't know what's wrong with me. It's like all I can do is keep writing this gibberish to keep from breaking apart. -- Stephen Chbosky
In the face of entropy and nothingness, you kind of have to pretend it's not there if you want to keep writing good code. -- Karl Lehenbauer
Strangely, I always have a lot of cut scenes. I keep writing shorter and shorter scripts, thinking that this time, I'll get all my scenes in. -- David Twohy
I don't have any structured grand plan; I just intend to keep writing about the things that interest me-some of which change, some of which don't. -- Greg Egan
I feel a passion for what we're trying to do.I mean, why does somebody who's old who's a writer keep writing? Because that's who they are. -- Charles Koch
In order to be a living, breathing thing, a novel has to be failed in some kind of way. Or at least that's how I keep writing them. -- Dana Spiotta
Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home. -- Philip Levine
So, it's a continual process of trial and error and then I find things and I throw it out and start again, but I keep writing it over again. -- Edward Hirsch
In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway. -- Junot Diaz
I don't have any desire to retire in the sense of not doing anything. As long as the Lord gives me strength I want to keep writing and keep preaching. -- Max Lucado
Every morning when I awake I ask myself whether I should write or blow up a dam. I tell myself I should keep writing, though I'm not sure that's right -- Derrick Jensen
The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images -- Galen
Because there's just so much in a day now, I keep writing in much more abstract terms, like I don't try to write about what happened anymore. It would be impossible. -- Feist
I don't have the strength to keep writing this. To go on living with this feeling is painful beyond description. Isn't there someone kind enough to strangle me in my sleep? -- RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa
The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images. -- Galen Rowell
My name became a brand, and I'd love to say that was the plan from the start. But the only plan was to keep writing books. And I've stuck to that ever since. -- John Grisham
I'd say, don't listen to what anyone says: you're good. Go put your anorak on. Get your thick bottle-top specs. Draw your little cartoons and your comics and keep writing to the BBC. -- Peter Capaldi
I just want to keep writing characters who are interesting and complicated people and interesting roles for women, in TV or film or in theater. I think that's like my 'Blues Brothers' mission. -- Elizabeth Meriwether
I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There's still a lot more about Christmas that can be captured and feel like old-time Christmas. A lot of the traditions haven't been explained in song. -- Clint Black
People will tell you that writing is too difficult, that it's impossible to get your work published, that you might as well hang yourself. Meanwhile, they'll keep writing and you'll have hanged yourself. -- John Gardner
We'll keep writing and if it hits our standards we'll go with it. We're not here to destroy anything. It's as precious to us as it is for someone who's followed us for years. -- Ian Brown
If I don't stay creative and if I don't stay in the studio and keep writing and recording, I get kind of depressed. I can't quite remember what I'm supposed to be doing with myself. -- Kenny Loggins
So, the combination of looking at lots of different people and how they react to each other and how they relate to each other and waiting for that inspiration is the thing that allows me to keep writing. -- Joan Armatrading
I think I know what my bandmates like or are interested in or would be interested in doing. I take ideas and I develop them, get rid of some ideas, keep writing, and then new things come up. -- John Dieterich
Even if I never sold another book, I'd keep writing, because the stories are here, in my head. Stories that just need to be told. I love watching a plot unfold, and feeling the surprise when the unexpected happens. -- Tess Gerritsen
Every writer prefers good reviews over bad ones, and every writer wants to have lots of readers. But if it doesn't happen, that's fine too. Perhaps I won't throw a party then; I'll simply go home and keep writing. -- J. K. Rowling
Rather than thinking in terms of a specific genre or specific kind of thing, I hope I can just stay relatively small and keep making my movies. If I can keep writing them and making them, I'll be happy. -- Rian Johnson
At readings, audience members sometimes ask if I keep writing past the two hours if I'm on a roll, but I don't. I figure that if I'm on a roll, it's partially because I know I'm about to stop. -- Aimee Bender
Sometimes when I'm stuck, I really do need that cup of tea, or that chocolate, or a break, or a walk, but in most cases what I actually need to do is make myself keep writing until it flows again. -- Liane Moriarty
The best advice I have is keep writing, keep practicing, keep winning, losing and understanding the difference. Never stop learning, never stop pushing yourself. Then find yourself a team you can work well with and help make awesome things happen. -- Rhianna Pratchett
I was in such a creative groove after turning in my last book (The Andy Cohen Diaries: A Deep Look at a Shallow Year) that I decided to keep writing in the hope that I'd one day do a sequel. -- Andy Cohen
A lot of people can figure out the social media aspect of it, or the merchandising aspect, or whatever and get enough momentum to start a career. To sustain it, you have to keep writing and you have to keep creating. -- Tyler Hilton
Teen magazines keep writing that my eyes Â´twinkleÂ´ when I talk. Look, IÂ´m a guy. I donÂ´t twinkle, you know! You can say that my eyes Â´sparkleÂ´ maybe, but not Â´twinkleÂ´ alright? Got that teen magazine writers?! -- Jonathan Brandis
For anyone who is: just keep writing. Keep reading. If you are meant to be a writer, a storyteller, it'll work itself out. You just keep feeding it your energy, and giving it that crucial chance to work itself out. By reading and writing. -- Robin McKinley
I don't write for an audience. I write for myself. And if I imagine an audience at all, it's the characters, but I know that I would keep writing even if no one ever published me again, even if no one ever read me again. -- Ursula Hegi
After I won the Pulitzer, there was this sense of, 'OK, that's enough for you. Now go away.' What I wanted was to keep writing, keep working. But no one would produce anything of mine they didn't think would be as big as ''night, Mother.' -- Marsha Norman
So research is a terribly imperfect science, and you learn an awful lot more after you've published a book, because people keep writing to you and saying, 'Oh, gosh, I was related to such and such a character and I have a letter in my possession.' -- Simon Winchester
Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing. They are the ones who discover what is most important and strangest and most pleasurable in themselves, and keep believing in the value of their work, despite the difficulties. -- Bonnie Friedman
I do not remember where I read that there are two kinds of poets: the good poets, who at a certain point destroy their bad poems and go off to run guns in Africa, and the bad poets, who publish theirs and keep writing more until they die. -- Umberto Eco
The writer's duty is to keep on writing. -- William Styron
Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing. -- Bill Simmons
No matter how much money I made from writing, I'd keep the bookstore job. -- Jami Attenberg
I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them. -- Delta Goodrem
I want to keep publishing books, and writing and spreading my heartsong through the world. -- Mattie Stepanek
I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading. -- Tony Hillerman
I am always writing; if you want to survive in this business, you need to keep working, keep creating and never stop the output. -- Rufus Wainwright
So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to be burnt-out in this job. -- Lee Child
If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it. -- Dana Brunetti
The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write and keep on writing. -- Ken MacLeod
I have tried my best to keep my country alive by writing about it. -- Nuruddin Farah
Don't write what you know. Write what you love. That's what will keep you writing. -- Chris Humphreys
I keep my TV writing and my book writing almost wholly separate. The audiences feel so different. -- Josh Lieb
Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves. -- Haruki Murakami
If your writing doesn`t keep you up at night, it won`t keep anyone else up either". -- James M. Cain
Writing improves in direct ratio to the things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there. -- William Zinsser
Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense. -- Adam Gopnik
Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life. -- Nick Cave
The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible. -- Beverly Cleary
At this stage, my chief professional goal is simply to keep on writing and making a living at it. -- Fred Saberhagen
I like writing songs - I keep saying that one day I'll do something with them, but I haven't yet. -- Tom Conti
The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion. -- Kristin Hersh
I love stand-up, but the process of writing is a little more lonely. I want to keep doing both, though. -- Jack Whitehall
Keep writing. Keep doing it and doing it. Even in the moments when it's so hurtful to think about writing. -- Heather Armstrong
When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence. -- Gao Xingjian
People are writing shorter jokes. The style I've started with was almost trying to keep jokes under 140 characters before Twitter. -- Nick Thune
It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward. -- Dani Shapiro
Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties. -- John Irving
If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it. -- James A. Michener
Keep your paragraphs short. Writing is visual - it catches the eye before it has a chance to catch the brain. -- William Zinsser
My aunt could never understand how writing could be a full-time job. She'd keep asking when I'd get a real job! -- Ken Spillman
My aunt could never understand how writing could be a full-time job. She'd keep asking when I'd get a real job!. -- Ken Spillman
There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing. -- David McCullough
Writing fulfils an insatiable drive. Finishing the story satisfies my thirst. But I must keep drinking until the story quenches a buyer. -- Ace Antonio Hall
Actually I'm writing as best I can, in order to keep the momentum and the career there, but I want to live. -- Chuck Berry
I was a businessman for 16 years of my life, so when I started writing, I wanted to keep my literary identity separate. -- Ashwin Sanghi
I try to keep my voice in writing, and I think that's why I get so many complaints about how I write. -- Stanley Cavell
For those who can do it and who keep their nerve, writing for a living still beats most real, grown-up jobs hands down. -- Terence Blacker
All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland. -- Jimi Hendrix
If you schlep a shit job everyday, keep and feed a little secret life--whether it's writing, art, running, music, your thoughts. It's yours. -- Don Roff
Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love. -- Pico Iyer
But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to it. -- George MacDonald
When someone gives you advice, just ask them to give it in writing and they will either keep mum or will run from there. -- Amit Kalantri
I sometimes think about writing just to keep my mind active when I'm not working, but I don't think I would be good enough. -- Ruby Bentall
When I'm not acting, I'm writing, building an inventory of scripts. Even if they sit on the shelf, I just keep stacking them up. -- Dan Aykroyd
I keep thinking about blood, I dream about it. Wake up thinking about it. Pretty soon I'll be writing morbid emo poetry about it. -- Cassandra Clare
You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed. -- Larry Niven
Whatever's happening today, remember it is only ONE SCENE in a long movie. Don't treat it like it's the whole story. Keep writing the story. -- Henry Cloud
I like to joke that I started writing long poems out the anxiety over ending and starting poems. It just seemed easier to keep going. -- Alison Hawthorne Deming
I tried to write poems in rhyme. I tried writing songs. Sometimes I jotted down a thought. I would keep a log of spontaneous thoughts. -- Chath Piersath
Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can't quite keep up with gravity. -- Rainbow Rowell
Lots of times I'm not crazy about the writing, but I keep moving ahead and somehow it gets better. The important thing is to move forward. -- Janet Evanovich
I'm pretty disciplined to keep the momentum of a story going by writing everyday, even if it's only a couple paragraphs or a page or two. -- James Rollins

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