Publication is almost certainly a punishment for having written a book. — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written. — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
The only time I'm pleased with myself is when I'm exhausted and shaking from having written too much. — Mabel Seeley Copy Share Image
What I love is the writing, it's not having written. I like the process of it. — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
I still have dreams, but instead of having them written on a little piece of paper, I live a little bit of… — Sophie Gregoire Trudeau Copy Share Image
“Say nothing and he' ll think you regret having written. Say anything and it will be out of place. Do what, then?… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
Someone once said that the joy is not in writing but in having written. I can't say I find that to be… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
As for love . . . no, having once written that word I can write nothing more. — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
I love having written. Sometimes I love writing. I love to revise. Revising is my favorite part of writing. — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
I would be miserable if I went to bed without having written 1,000 words about something. — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
Vegas is like the old definition of writing: though I don't enjoy writing, I love having written. Though I didn't enjoy Vegas,… — J. R. Moehringer Copy Share Image
“At forty my faculties may have closed up like flowers at evening, leaving me unable to write my memoirs with a fitting… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
It's hard work, writing, you know. Honestly, a fight every day against your own limitations. You have to squeeze books out of… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I… — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
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Despite having written five books, I worry that I have not written the right kinds of books, or that perhaps I have… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
So my first book I had no experience having written a book, but each book is a little snapshot of who you… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
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Within a year after I write a play I forget the experience of having written it. And I couldn't revise or rewrite… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
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The two important facts I should say, are emotion, and then words arising from emotion. I don't think you can write in… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“I write well-fleshed out characters, and inevitably, more ideas spring from my subconscious. They all have a little bit of me in… — Faye Kellerman Copy Share Image
Well, first you have to love writing. A lot of authors love having written. But I enjoy the actual writing. Beside that,… — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
Twenty-two pages is not a lot of space. Believe me. Having written a bazillion comics, I still find myself more often than… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
“What the young writer needs to develop, to achieve his goal of becoming a great artist, is not a set of aesthetic… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
I'm one of those writers who say, 'I've enjoy having written.' — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Maybe this is wrong, but I feel like I craft my songs carefully enough that I still find that fifteen years after… — Ben Folds Copy Share Image
I am not sure when it became de rigueur for presidential candidates to publish a work between hard covers, but nobody now… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
From the beginning [of the Lincoln in the Bardo], I actually had it in mind not to write a novel. I'd kind… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new… — Jeffrey Archer Copy Share Image
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