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Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial activity. It is a lonely and private substitute for conversation.
Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.
Now, I like a writer party, I like writers, I am the child of writers, I am a writer. I still love scribbling that word - WRITER - anytime
The joy of writing.
The power of preserving.
Revenge of a mortal hand.
Writer's were supposed to be a litte crazy
Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
Write to Inspire. Write to Express. Write to Live.
My early writing was a silent fury - at what or whom, I had no idea - but I shut it in until it burned my bones and now, I've let it out ...
You cannot write unless you write much.
Everybody is writing, writing, writing - worst of all, writing poetry. It'd be better if the whole tribe of the scribblers - every damned one of us - were sent off somewhere with tool chests to do some honest work.
Writers think with their soul and draft from their heart
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
[Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]
I am the worlds laziest writer.
Many have an irresistible itch for writing.
The complexion of a novelist is seldom rosy (Paul Bailey once announced to a heavy-hearted audience of novelists at PEN that we have always been an ugly tribe). We are engaged in indoor activity, haemorrhoidal, prone to chillblains, poor of circulation.
I'm a fairly undisciplined writer.
I can't think why I was cursed with this inordinate desire to write, if the high gods weren't going to give me some more adquate means of expressing myself than that which my present pedestrian prose affords.
May it be written. May it be done.
Writing is improvising sitting down. K.B.Brege
A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life.
When I act, I come away drained. When I write, I come away energized.
There's constant drama, and I'm busy, busy, but at the center of the madness is the desire to write, the need to write. That desire, that need, is as palpable and relentless as any junkie's craving, and will possess me all day until I can park myself in a chair and do my work.
Who often reads, will sometimes wish to write.
Women writers make for rewarding (and efficient) lovers. They are clever liars to fathers and husbands; yet they never hold their tongues too long, nor keep ardent typing fingers still.
We wonder to write.
We write or we are written upon. The whole of our lives is the clumsy attempt to wield the pen with grace.
Writers are the engineers of human souls.
The best writing is rewriting.
For the first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it would be better for his health.
Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.
Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, and what language I have been obliged to treat them with to deal with them in their own way; - all this comes of Authorship.
Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention - all interest me.
Why a writer? I should have been a surgeon or a mechanic, for surely a scalpel or wrench couldn't cause me the anguish words do.
I write, I write, I always write.
Everything in life is writable ...
There are two kinds of writers, those who are and those who aren't. With the first, content and form belong together like soul and body; with the second, they match each other like body and clothes.
Writing is hard work.
To write is to feel the dance of your soul swirling in a dream that drips imagination onto paper.
Writing is the most powerful weapon on earth.It can change minds and stir souls.
Writing is the light of imagination playing over shadow of thoughts.
Next to doing things that deserve to be written, nothing gets a man more credit, or gives him more pleasure than to write things that deserve to be read.
Writing is wretched, discouraging, physically unhealthy, infinitely frustrating work. And when it all comes together it's utterly glorious.
National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) Pep Talk
Writing is my life,a God given gift; no one on this planet can separate me from it.
Thoughts fly and words go on foot. Therein lies all the drama of a writer.
Writing is the silence of the soul struggling to be heard
You are a writer when you can't not write.
Writing can be a lifeline, especially when your existence has been denied, especially when you have been left on the margins, especially when your life and process of growth have been subjected to attempts at strangulation.
Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes.
Writing is the lonely sport of sad sacks.
When a writer writes, it's as if she holds the sides of her chest apart, exposes her beating heart. And even though everything wants to heal, to close over and protect the heart, the writer must keep it bare, exposed.
Writing is medicine. It is an appropriate antidote to injury. It is an appropriate companion for any difficult change.
Writing is a sickness only cured by writing.
The written word can make one pause and contemplate. It can make a reader sigh to dream or question a belief in considerable depth. But all of that is nothing if those words fail to touch the heart and make one feel.
Writing is a craft never mastered.
When I write, I write obsessively. I try to pace myself, but some fires are too hot to put out.
We are all the authors of our own fates; but we have gotten so lost in the technicalities of forming letters and stringing words together that we've forgotten what it really means to write.
somewhere in the night someone was writing
Writing is both an act of power and surrender. Passion and discovery. It is a tug at your soul that continues to pull you forward, even as you go kicking and screaming. (p.18)
Writers are the dreamers and the keepers of dreams.
Writing is the voice that calls us from dreams, that peeks out of the corner of our eyes when we think no one is looking, the longing that breaks out hearts even when we think we should be happiest, and to which we cannot give a name.
Writing is taking the demons out for a walk.
A story unwritten is without beginning or end. But in its potential lies another story; and in the heartbeat before pen meets page, both stories exist at once, reflecting endless permutations of the other, before one of them disappears forever.
Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.
Writing is something that I am ever driven to do, and concerning which I am never satisfied.
The received image of a writer is that of an unproductive sensitive who suffers from the vapors, is enslaved by his gonads, falls victim to romantic swoons and passes out at deadlines.
Writers are Igniters!
For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.
At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it.
For what's a writer without longing?
Writing is a hellish task, best snuck up on, whacked on the head, robbed and left for dead.
To write: to try meticulously to retain something, to cause something to survive; to wrest a few precise scraps from the void as it grows, to leave somewhere a furrow, a trace, a mark or a few signs.
Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one's words and one's soul.
Writers often have the cleanest windows, floors, fridges and toilets, the most up-to-date filing system or the best record for returning calls or e-mails because, in the moment, just about any task seems more palatable than sitting down to write." (p.136)
Writing is like breathing for my soul.
Write with passion and purpose!
Writing is a delicious agony.
What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce community and in many people hope and joy.
It's become fashionable these days to say that the writer writes because he is not whole, he has a wound, he writes to heal it, but who cares if the writer is not whole; of course the writer is not whole, or even particularly well.
Writers are always anxious, always on the run
from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions of the world.
I am what I am again: a writer. I have metabolized the injury into art.
Writing is acting on paper.
Writers are engineers of human souls.
Writing is?waiting for the word that may not be there until next Tuesday.
Write naked. Write in exile. Write in blood.
A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing is to have good water in the well, and it is better to take a regular amount out than to pump the well dry and wait for it to refill.
I am always trying to write.
Writing is the greatest thing that can happen to a human being. It's the best.
writing was like breathing.
If reading is like breathing then writing is like the beat of a heart.
All writing comes by the grace of God.
Writing makes me hard, like a fisherman, and brown from the heat. Tossing out and reeling in is a job for visionaries and those with calloused hands.
A writer is someone who writes!
It is not without pleasure that i can tell my majestic colleagues who write for humanity, and in the name of humanity, that i have never written a single word other than for a selfish purpose; but at, each time, the work betrayed me and escaped from me
I take writting as something in which you should in limited or not in limited time to create characters which the readers will like... feel compassion.
Writing is like masturbation. It might not bear fruit, but it certainly does feel good.
I wrote 1000 words yesterday and today I deleted them all. Who'd be a writer.
I hate to write, but I love to have written.
Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.
Writing is an ever learning experience of voice and thought.
Writing is simply one thought after another dying upon the one before.