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Music is an important part of my writing process. — Peter James
I write four books a year. I'm very fortunate that I write quickly; around 3,500 words a day. Being strict about delineating my writing time… — Alexander McCall Smith
My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down. — Dick Schaap
My teacher has a reading problem. He can't read my writing — Leopold Fechtner
Buffon said unreservedly, "Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme." To those who asked how he achieved fame he replied: "By spending forty years… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
The very best parts of me go into my writing, it is the best version of myself, and I don't think it's hubristic to believe… — Jami Attenberg
Sometimes I write, but once it's done, I usually find my writing to be so bad that I hide it somewhere and never look at… — Gideon Glick
I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story. — Willa Cather
I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career. — Marsha Norman
When I am writing, I focus one hundred percent on my writing. Then, by the time I'm half way through the book, I'm already thinking… — Anita Desai
One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn't work on this mirror principle - you don't have… — Thomas Frank
I wanted to take my writing to another level. I wanted to write stuff that was personal for real. It's one thing to write a… — Tove Styrke
I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River' launched, because I thought that would help build a… — Michael Koryta
My writing has a lot of surprising twists, — Brent Weeks
My writing is really intuitive. As a kid, I went to school in New Jersey and hung out in New York, so the way kids… — Donald Fagen
Music's always part of my writing. I think all art is interconnected. You can't create or experience one without its influences bleeding into another. In… — Charles de Lint
My words, my writing, my actions—these have never been for myself alone, either directly or indirectly. There is no such thing as an artist who… — Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running. — Gene Fowler
When I started writing after my career as an actor, I knew that that other life in the film industry would be pulled into my… — James Franco
I think my writing is part of my ministry. — Robert Fulghum
Anything that keeps you happy and writing is part of my writing ritual: I like music, so I tend to have it playing in the… — Neil Gaiman
I was super brainy and a proper geek at school, but there would always be a boy. But that sort of obsession did turn me… — Ellie Goulding
I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers… — Andrew Greeley
I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to read and my writing was an outgrowth… — Junot Diaz
I'm lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing. — Ben Elton

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