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Those who write need that "willing suspension of disbelief ", as Coleridge called it.
We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it.
Ruth's writing is so joyful, funny and uplifting; it's always a real treat of a read.
If I don't feel like writing on a certain day, I just go to the cafe and hang around.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. Think on paper and write them down!
Most of the time, writing is a lot of fun, and not a small amount of self-medication.
All I ever wanted to do was write songs and get on a bus and go play them for people.
What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.
I'm not here to write a song for you, I'm here to help you write a song for yourself.
Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it.
It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.
The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence.
I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.
If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me.
It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man.
There are times when quantity is at least as important as quality in learning an art.
I wanted to write a song that's known to the world as a classic, stadium-rock anthem.
I think there are things I can't write in English that I wish I could write in Khmer.
If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
I'm writing a new love story, set in eastern North Carolina. Surprise, surprise, huh?
To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.
Too many people write their blessings in the sand but engrave their sorrows in marble
I know about hip-hop culture, whether it's graffiti writing or DJ-ing or being an MC.
Most writers write haphazardly. The actor is fighting unjustified words all the time.
The author portrays himself in every line he writes and portrayal is always betrayal.
I've realized the most effective way to write, for me, is knowing what to throw away.
You have to be quite brave to write about something that you honestly feel and think.
I write back to all the soldiers who write to me and send them posters and calendars.
In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.
There are just certain times I sense the Lord is wanting me to write, and so I write.
writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible!
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.
I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.
When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody.
Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?
If a reporter doesn't like the person he's writing about, it shows up in his article.
My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck.
The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.
The great thing about revision is that it's your opportunity to fake being brilliant.
I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you.
A story has been thought to its conclusion when it has taken its worst possible turn.
When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing.
Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.
I don't think I can write the story of my life, but I can write the story of my hair.
I write all day every day, so when I feel unproductive, it magnifies everything else.
There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song