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  • I should be concentrating on writing pages. -- R. L. Stine
  • I think it's Jerry's masterful fiction writing. -- Tim LaHaye
  • Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing. -- Elena Ferrante
  • Fiction writing feels more honest to me. -- David James Duncan
  • The writer's duty is to keep on writing. -- William Styron
  • Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything. -- Ivana Trump
  • You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. -- Ray Bradbury
  • For me personally, I'm mostly focused on writing and acting right now. -- Ben Savage
  • For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me. -- Alison Bechdel
  • I spent most of this afternoon writing a new introduction for my autobiography. -- June Foray
  • Never believe that the fiction writing life makes sense.... It's insanity by definition. -- Jo Beverley
  • I go on writing so that I will always have something to read. -- Jeanette Winterson
  • The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write and keep on writing. -- Ken MacLeod
  • I make no claim to be an authority on writing or illustrating for children. -- Hugh Lofting
  • My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime. -- Etgar Keret
  • Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing. -- Anne Carson
  • So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing. -- Clarice Lispector
  • I kept on writing and illustrating, for this is what I did well because I loved it. -- Jean Craighead George
  • Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves. -- Haruki Murakami
  • A writer can't afford to just focus on writing and leave marketing aside in today's competitive market. -- Amish Tripathi
  • If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward. -- Candice Millard
  • A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out. -- Wallace Stegner
  • First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic. -- Kathy Acker
  • One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material. -- William Zinsser
  • I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve problems in creative ways. -- Eleanor Catton
  • At this stage, my chief professional goal is simply to keep on writing and making a living at it. -- Fred Saberhagen
  • The comforts come from my movie and television writing. It is unusual to live this well simply from books. -- Anatoly Rybakov
  • I held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing. -- Thomas Perry
  • The best advice on writing I've ever received is to take it seriously, because to do it well is all-consuming. -- David Guterson
  • The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion. -- Kristin Hersh
  • I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading. -- Tony Hillerman
  • I think anything we do - eating, walking down the street, online shopping - gives you another perspective on writing stories. -- Peter Orner
  • Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that. -- Robert Morgan
  • Read everything you can on writing. Join online forums and critique groups, go to conferences, get feedback, and learn, learn, learn! -- Chevy Stevens
  • I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus. -- Susan Orlean
  • In TV writing, I felt like Gulliver being tied down by the Lilliputians. There's so much more freedom in fiction writing. -- Maria Semple
  • The best advice on writing I've ever received was from William Zinsser: 'Be grateful for every word you can cut.' -- Christopher Buckley
  • I'm sure that people who have been tweeting funny things have ended up on writing staffs of a late night show. -- Dane Cook
  • I was hooked on writing. I mean, where else can you get paid for sticking your nose into somebody else's business? -- Bette Greene
  • Too many people focus on writing what they think they should write, what should be in a song, what radio would want. -- Kacey Musgraves
  • 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
  • I didn't originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I was accomplishing something creative. -- Rachel Dratch
  • Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can. -- Sue Grafton
  • My neck and shoulders are killing me. Hard to focus on writing about murder, doom, shagging, our hopeless future & other comedy etc etc. -- Warren Ellis
  • Once you're imagining being the main character, and you're having the conversations and actually being there, the magic in fiction writing takes over. -- Will Hobbs
  • Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths. -- Wally Lamb
  • Don't try to follow any trends, just concentrate on writing great songs and knowing your instrument. All the other stuff will fall into place. -- Steven Adler
  • I think I've only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing. The other ninety percent went to keeping my head above water. -- Katherine Anne Porter
  • Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing worlds and people. -- Ayana Mathis
  • I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things. -- Janis Ian
  • Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies. -- Paul Theroux
  • I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I plan on writing a lot. -- Amanda Hocking
  • It often seems to me that the biggest single issue for a writer is how to stay buoyant enough to go on writing. How not to drown. -- Janette Turner Hospital
  • My philosophy on writing books is that if you learn only one new thing, or even get a new take on something you already know, it's worth it. -- James Scott Bell
  • I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge. -- Gwendolyn Brooks
  • A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. -- Samuel McChord Crothers
  • Even if I knew for certain that I would never have anything published again, and would never make another cent from it, I would still keep on writing. -- Brenda Ueland
  • In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers. -- Alan Lightman
  • When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in college, I had done all these seminars with these various writers-in-residence. -- Lily Rabe
  • 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
  • I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the formal aspects of their work. -- Alain de Botton
  • In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully. You can't let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live and breathe on their own. -- Alan Lightman
  • Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing is all about telling the truth. -- Paul Harding
  • I do want to work on writing, because writing's a skill. Writing is something that you can train yourself to know better. To know yourself better. And it's intimidating as hell. -- Kristen Stewart
  • I 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 Dalton
  • I love long sentences. My big heroes of fiction writing are Henry James and Proust - people who recognise that life doesn't consist of declarative statements, but rather modifications, qualifications and feelings. -- John Burnside
  • In the moments of adversity, we engaged our minds on beautiful thoughts, our spirit on spirituality and our hands on inspiration writings. What a good trade of pain for peace of mind? -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • In the moments of adversity, we engaged our minds on beautiful thoughts, our spirit on spirituality and our hands on inspiration writings. What a good trade of pain for peace of mind~? -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery. -- Joe Haldeman
  • I'm not against White writers writing about Blacks as long as they are as objective as say James McPherson writing about an Irish American janitor in his brilliant short story "Gold Coast." -- Ishmael Reed
  • At the 'Times,' all journalists on every subject followed the same rules and were supposed to meet the same standards, so I never really thought about fashion writing as being in a bubble. -- Suzy Menkes
  • I guess the thing that I'm most proud of is that I kept on writing poetry. I understand that poetry is sort of the source of everything I do. It's the source of my creativity. -- Erica Jong
  • Too often we take notes on writing, we think about writing but never do it. I want you to walk into the heart of the storm, written words dripping off hair, eyelids, hanging from hands. -- Natalie Goldberg
  • In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die. -- Robyn Hitchcock
  • We were given clear concrete tools. The course did a great job demystifying the art of fiction writing and fostering confidence. The instructor brought complex concepts down to earth. I will miss coming here every week. -- Miguel Ferrer
  • It varies from song to song, although Buck Owens and I recently collaborated on writing a duet together and am looking forward with a great deal of anticipation to recording that track for the new studio album. -- Dwight Yoakam
  • I think every writer of detective fiction writing today has been influenced by Mr. Parker. I'm of a generation that followed Robert Parker, and it was impossible to read the genre and not be influenced by him. -- Robert Crais
  • From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action, but setting is a vital element in fiction writing and deserves serious treatment. -- Garry Disher
  • In the world of opinion writing, there's something called the 'to be sure' paragraph. A sort of rhetorical antibiotic, it seeks to defend against critics by injecting a tiny bit of counter-argument before moving on with the main point. -- Meghan Daum
  • When I was hired by the University of Washington extension school to teach the one-year fiction writing course - 96 classroom hours - I quickly determined that I knew only about an hour's worth off the top of my head. -- James Thayer
  • People have always heard voices. Sometimes they're called shamans, sometimes they're called mad, and sometimes they're called fiction writers. I always feel lucky that I live in a culture where fiction writing is legal and not seen as pathology. -- Ruth Ozeki
  • Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had to have some literary pedigree to be a successful author, the son of Hemingway or Fitzgerald. -- James Rollins
  • It is impossible to know what fate will bring. If you love to write or paint, you will keep on writing or painting, and things will either work out or not, and you just have to keep being in the process. -- Maira Kalman
  • This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that it's hard to make a living as a writer. At that point, I was more interested in fiction writing. -- Hooman Majd
  • I've devoted a lot of my time and effort during the past few years to developing my advertising copywriting business to the point of where I can support my family and don't have to depend on writing fiction for my income. -- George Stephen
  • People love gossip because it's slightly removed from actuality. It's a very literary thing... You can hear a great story, and it turns out that it's largely not true. Fiction writing is like gossip. It's not malicious gossip, but it's gossip. -- Lorrie Moore
  • When it comes to sermon writing, generally there are two problems. Some preachers love the research stage but hate the writing, and they start writing too late. Others don't like doing research, so they move way too fast to the writing part. -- John Ortberg
  • A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonists taste in music, or were told that the hero looks like the young Cary Grant. Film is the medium these writers are looking for. -- Peter Temple
  • I really enjoyed hearing the likesand dislikesof my readers at book clubs as well as meeting new fans at the book signing at The Bookworm in Omaha he saidThe book clubs have overwhelmingly asked me to hurry up on writing the sequel. -- J. Alexander Greenwood
  • A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonist's taste in music, or we're told that the hero looks like the young Cary Grant. Film is the medium these writers are looking for. -- Peter Temple
  • Conflict is the microscope of a book. When it's trained on a character, you see what's underneath the narratives of physical description. You see whether someone is strong or weak, principled or apathetic, heroic or villainous."(J.R. on writing the BDB series)" -- J.R. Ward
  • The one thing fiction and non-fiction writing have in common for me is that sense of trying to get the sentences to be minimal but at the same time be a little overfull - to encourage them to do a kind of poetic work. -- George Saunders
  • Over the years, I have been a house painter, farm worker, paste-up artist, Easter Bunny, pizza delivery person, homeless shelter staff member, and counselor for adults and kids with mental illness - I quit my last real job in 2000 to work on writing full-time. -- Jennifer McMahon
  • I'm dependent on writing for a living, so really it's to my advantage to understand how the creative process works. One of the problems is, when you start to do that, in effect you're going to have to step off the edge of science and rationality. -- Alan Moore
  • All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself. -- Penelope Lively
  • If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course, you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place, you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong. -- Haruki Murakami
  • It's physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong. -- Haruki Murakami
  • I never really focus on writing for other people, to be honest. Every song I've ever written was for me to sing. Maybe if I'm writing for a rapper, but I'd still write it as though it was for myself and then sometimes I'm actually asked to do the part. -- Skylar Grey
  • Choreography is writing on your feet. -- Bob Fosse
  • Writing is still on my slate. -- Jaleel White
  • Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves. -- Paul Theroux
  • I love writing about people on the road. -- Cynthia Kadohata
  • Writing on the road is a passion of mine. -- Lee DeWyze
  • I'm very involved in the writing on every level. -- Fran Drescher
  • On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing. -- James Salter
  • I sometimes don't know what I'm writing when I start writing it, on some level. -- Josh Radnor
  • I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber. -- David McCullough
  • When I am writing, I'm very much on the ground, on the same ground my characters are treading. -- Graham Swift
  • There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly. -- Scott Speedman
  • My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down. -- Dick Schaap
  • I feel confident writing on my feet with improv, but it's different when you're sitting down and writing it out. -- Amy Sedaris
  • When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper. -- Pat Barker
  • I'm really proud of the writing on Door to Door, and I think that's the Emmy that meant the most - the writing. -- William H. Macy
  • When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around. -- Ken Kesey
  • Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on. -- Buddy Ebsen
  • Writing is thinking on paper. -- William Zinsser
  • Sex and writing live on playful cruelties. -- Mason Cooley
  • The best writing has no lace on its sleeves. -- Walt Whitman
  • Writing is the rock on which everything is built. -- Dan Rather
  • Writing my blog has saved me thousands on therapy. -- Phil Cooke
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