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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.
Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.
I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.
A writing cook and a cooking writer must be bold at the desk as well as the stove.
Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.
A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.
All through my writing life I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.
Any great character is the combination of a brilliant actor and the right writing.
I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.
There's no such thing as writing about the future. The future hasn't happened yet.
Oddly enough, I never studied writing. I studied almost everything except writing.
Writers aren't born, they're made - from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine.
Every time I'm not on a project, I'm writing or in the studio or doing gigs DJing.
Kill the idea of the lone, suffering artist. Don't make it any harder on yourself.
Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.
I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.
Don't fake enthusiasms. Say what you think, not what you think you ought to think.
I love writing stories about regular people dealing with life's biggest questions.
I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.
The only thing that a man may do that is new, is to write himself on human hearts.
I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.
Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing.
I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second.
The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears.
It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch.
Dear Aspiring Author; Write with heart. Put that open, honest, bare soul on paper.
Don't write what you know. Write what you love. That's what will keep you writing.
Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
For 20 years, Simon & Schuster asked me, 'Why don't you write your autobiography?'
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
If I don't cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it's failed.
It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not.
The formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know.
I can't wait to write a defense of the drone strike that takes out Julian Assange.
I thought of myself as a writer for years before I got around to writing anything.
I'm always writing - its what I like to do. But when I'm not writing, I'm reading.
The writing for me is hard work and I always look forward to drawing the pictures.
When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.
Do you all have a living room floor or a bedroom floor? Then you can write a book.
I think a lot of what goes into writing can be taught - not mixing metaphors, etc.
I actually do think the history is so epic that it actually kind of writes itself.
When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.
You really can't write well if you're thinking about what the reviewers might say.
I read constantly because there is so much to learn from the writing in the world.
Writing is not a genteel profession. It's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.