Top Writing Quotes
Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.
Marsha Norman
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
Ray Bradbury
My singing is my hobby. It's me and my brother. We just enjoy writing music.
Taryn Manning
Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
Roald Dahl
We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
Mohandas Gandhi
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Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming.
Holly Johnson 
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Send it to someone who can publish it. And if they won't publish it, send it to someone else who can publish it! And keep sending it! Of course, if no one will publish it, at that point you might want to think about doing something other than writing.
Robert B. Parker
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I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other author's really.
Paul Kane
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I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing starting to get more and more referential to cinema.
Jim Jarmusch
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The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.
Robert Cormier
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People say you can't teach writing, but I think that's nonsense.
Tracy Kidder
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Comedy is just to me, maybe it's a natural knack, if I can see where the joke is in the writing and I can see where the setup is and I can tell this is the way to make it.
Matt LeBlanc
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I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?
Jim Capaldi
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The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.
William Styron
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