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The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've already achieved them.

Denis Waitley

By writing I create an identity for myself. Without it I wouldn't feel being anybody, thus a personality. - It's not as much a question of self-expression as a need of finding yourself.

Pentti Saarikoski

I am always writing a potpourri of music. I want to give the world escapism through the wonder of great music and to reach the masses.

Michael Jackson

Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.

Jules Renard

Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

George Orwell

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

E. L. Doctorow

Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man,and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon

Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one's cone of vision, while standing in the right place at the right time. Like chess, or writing, it is a matter of choosing from among given possibilities, but in the case of photography the number of possibilities is not finite but infinite.

John Szarkowski

Writing is not a genteel profession. It's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.

Rosemary Mahoney

Writing makes no noise, except groans, and it can be done everywhere, and it is done alone.

Ursula K. LeGuin

You may be able to take a break from writing, but you won't be able to take a break from being a writer.

Stephen Leigh

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.

Gustave Flaubert

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear, which is inherent in a human condition

Graham Greene

Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all writing therefore is propaganda for something. It's a seeding of the self in the consciousness of others.

Elizabeth Drew

Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once

Cyril Connolly

When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.

Enrique Jardiel Poncela

Writing intellectual history is like trying to nail jelly to the wall.

William Hesseltine

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.

Henri Frederic Amiel

The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.

Martin Luther King Jr

Garden writing is often very tame, a real waste when you think how opinionated, inquisitive, irreverent and lascivious gardeners themselves tend to be. Nobody talks much about the muscular limbs, dark, swollen buds, strip-tease trees and unholy beauty that have made us all slaves of the Goddess Flora.

Ketzel Levine\'s

I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Getting ahead in a difficult profession - singing, acting, writing, whatever requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve

Sophia Loren

Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life. It has nothing to do with "I've got to get another play

Neil Simon

There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.

Jim Davis

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