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I love writing about my job because I loved it, and it was a particularly interesting one when I was a young man. It was like holidays with pay to me.
James Herriot
It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
Woodrow Wilson
There's no such thing as writing about the future. The future hasn't happened yet.
Joe Haldeman
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
Isaac Asimov
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
E. B. White
An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
E. B. White
A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix things up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.
E. B. White
I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself.
James A. Michener
I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.
Lloyd Alexander
All writing is an antisocial act, since the writer is a man who can speak freely only when alone; to be himself he must lock himself up, to communicate he must cut himself off from all communication; and in this there is something always a little mad.
Kenneth Tynan
I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.
William Faulkner
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
Bertolt Brecht
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
Ray Bradbury
You fail only if you stop writing.
Ray Bradbury
Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth.
Wole Soyinka
Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.
Gustave Flaubert
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
Gustave Flaubert
Writing fiction is... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.
Rose Wilder Lane
Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.
Terry Pratchett
I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.
Anna Quindlen
It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.
Isadora Duncan
Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.
Kurt Vonnegut
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