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Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writing than to put one principle into practice

I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.

Bruce Springsteen

I write journals and would recommend journal writing to anyone who wishes to pursue a writing career. You learn a lot. You also remember a lot... and memory is important.

Judy Collins

If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission in writing.

Edward Burnett Tylor

I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?

Philip Larkin

I spent most of this afternoon writing a new introduction for my autobiography.

June Foray

One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.

Joseph Barbera

People once said they were "in" psychoanalysis, meaning they were committed to a long immersion. In a sense, they were writing their autobiographies.

R. Z. Sheppard

It varies from song to song, although Buck Owens and I recently collaborated on writing a duet together and am looking forward with a great deal of anticipation to recording that track for the new studio album.

Dwight Yoakam

Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different from my anticipation. So there is considerable flow, but always within channels.

Piers Anthony

For me, writing is exploration; and most of the time, I'm surprised where the journey takes me.

Jack Dann

Forget all the rules. Forget about being published. Write for yourself and celebrate writing.

Melinda Haynes

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

Gloria Steinem

Writing is only boring to the people who are boring themselves.

Anonymous

Easy reading is damned hard writing.

Anonymous

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because when two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worries and only half the royalties.

Agatha Christie

Writing is a crummy profession, but a good hobby.

Paavo Haavikko

Writing is a fairly lonely business unless you invite people in to watch you do it, which is often distracting and then have to ask them to leave.

Marc Lawrence

Writing energy is like anything else. The more you put in, the more you get out.

Richard Reeves

Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.

J. P. Donleavy

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

George Orwell

To attract good fortune, spend a new penny on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.

Proverb

Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.

Olin Miller

Writing is the only trade I know of in which sniveling confessions of extreme incompetence are taken as credentials probative of powers to astound the multitude.

George V. Higgins

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