quotes.json

[
    {
        "Id": 0,
        "Quote": "Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.",
        "Author": "Benjamin Franklin"
    },
    {
        "Id": 1,
        "Quote": "The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.",
        "Author": "Gustave Flaubert"
    },
    {
        "Id": 2,
        "Quote": "There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.",
        "Author": "Ernest Hemingway"
    },
    {
        "Id": 3,
        "Quote": "I\u0027m writing a book. I\u0027ve got the page numbers done.",
        "Author": "Steven Wright"
    },
    {
        "Id": 4,
        "Quote": "Humans aren\u0027t as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were \u0027reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.\u0027",
        "Author": "Neil deGrasse Tyson"
    },
    {
        "Id": 5,
        "Quote": "Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.",
        "Author": "Isaac Asimov"
    },
    {
        "Id": 6,
        "Quote": "Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.",
        "Author": "E. L. Doctorow"
    },
    {
        "Id": 7,
        "Quote": "The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.",
        "Author": "J. K. Rowling"
    },
    {
        "Id": 8,
        "Quote": "All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.",
        "Author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald"
    },
    {
        "Id": 9,
        "Quote": "There are 30,000 days in your life. When I was 24, I realized I\u0027m almost 9,000 days down. There are no warm-ups, no practice rounds, no reset buttons. Your biggest risk isn\u0027t failing, it\u0027s getting too comfortable. Every day, we\u0027re writing a few more words of a story. I wanted my story to be an adventure and that\u0027s made all the difference.",
        "Author": "Drew Houston"
    },
    {
        "Id": 10,
        "Quote": "Sometimes I wonder if I\u0027m a character being written, or if I\u0027m writing myself.",
        "Author": "Marilyn Manson"
    },
    {
        "Id": 11,
        "Quote": "You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.",
        "Author": "Ray Bradbury"
    },
    {
        "Id": 12,
        "Quote": "Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors - it\u0027s how you combine them that sets you apart.",
        "Author": "Wolfgang Puck"
    },
    {
        "Id": 13,
        "Quote": "Be patient, work hard and consistently, have faith in your writing, and don\u0027t be afraid to listen to constructive criticism.",
        "Author": "Jonathan Galassi"
    },
    {
        "Id": 14,
        "Quote": "Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well.",
        "Author": "Margaret Atwood"
    },
    {
        "Id": 15,
        "Quote": "Writing means sharing. It\u0027s part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.",
        "Author": "Paulo Coelho"
    },
    {
        "Id": 16,
        "Quote": "Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.",
        "Author": "E. L. Doctorow"
    },
    {
        "Id": 17,
        "Quote": "Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.",
        "Author": "Hermann Hesse"
    },
    {
        "Id": 18,
        "Quote": "Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped sentences. In your voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your heart, your soul.",
        "Author": "Meg Rosoff"
    },
    {
        "Id": 19,
        "Quote": "You don\u0027t want to become guilty of plagiarism by letting someone else\u0027s words get inadvertently mixed in with your own. If you do feel the need to paste in a block of research while you\u0027re writing, be sure to highlight the copied text in a different color so you can go back and remove or rewrite it entirely later.",
        "Author": "Gayle Lynds"
    },
    {
        "Id": 20,
        "Quote": "There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.",
        "Author": "Rebecca Solnit"
    },
    {
        "Id": 21,
        "Quote": "As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it\u0027s laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating.",
        "Author": "Gary Hamel"
    },
    {
        "Id": 22,
        "Quote": "Good writing will bring you to places you don\u0027t even expect sometimes.",
        "Author": "James Gandolfini"
    },
    {
        "Id": 23,
        "Quote": "I don\u0027t believe in \u0027thinking\u0027 old. Although I\u0027ve transitioned through many bodies - a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult - my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.",
        "Author": "Wayne Dyer"
    },
    {
        "Id": 24,
        "Quote": "Do activities you\u0027re passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.",
        "Author": "Karen Salmansohn"
    },
    {
        "Id": 25,
        "Quote": "Writing is an extreme privilege but it\u0027s also a gift. It\u0027s a gift to yourself and it\u0027s a gift of giving a story to someone.",
        "Author": "Amy Tan"
    },
    {
        "Id": 26,
        "Quote": "Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.",
        "Author": "E. B. White"
    },
    {
        "Id": 27,
        "Quote": "Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I\u0027ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.",
        "Author": "Anne Frank"
    },
    {
        "Id": 28,
        "Quote": "Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.",
        "Author": "Francis Bacon"
    },
    {
        "Id": 29,
        "Quote": "It\u0027s a bit cliche, but you can\u0027t go wrong by writing what you know. Even if you\u0027re a horrible writer, your own knowledge and experience is unrivaled. Nobody knows what you know like you know what you know. The way you see things is pretty unique.",
        "Author": "Issa Rae"
    },
    {
        "Id": 30,
        "Quote": "We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, \u0027What is real?\u0027 Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms.",
        "Author": "Philip K. Dick"
    },
    {
        "Id": 31,
        "Quote": "Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn\u0027t exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.",
        "Author": "Ray Bradbury"
    },
    {
        "Id": 32,
        "Quote": "The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.",
        "Author": "A. B. Yehoshua"
    },
    {
        "Id": 33,
        "Quote": "And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.",
        "Author": "J. K. Rowling"
    },
    {
        "Id": 34,
        "Quote": "I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are the things that give my writing power.",
        "Author": "Sandra Cisneros"
    },
    {
        "Id": 35,
        "Quote": "Writing is like a \u0027lust,\u0027 or like \u0027scratching when you itch.\u0027 Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.",
        "Author": "C. S. Lewis"
    },
    {
        "Id": 36,
        "Quote": "Whether you\u0027re keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it\u0027s the same thing. What\u0027s important is you\u0027re having a relationship with your mind.",
        "Author": "Natalie Goldberg"
    },
    {
        "Id": 37,
        "Quote": "Like everyone else in this world, I have had struggles. There\u0027s disappointment and obstacles in everybody\u0027s life. I feel like I was writing \u0027Second Chance\u0027 not just for myself, but also for the people who have struggled.",
        "Author": "El DeBarge"
    },
    {
        "Id": 38,
        "Quote": "I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.",
        "Author": "Avi"
    },
    {
        "Id": 39,
        "Quote": "Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it\u0027s through writing, drama or art is so important in giving young people a sense of self-worth.",
        "Author": "Michael Morpurgo"
    },
    {
        "Id": 40,
        "Quote": "Writing, to me, is like kayaking a river. You are paddling down, and you come to a walled-off canyon, and you make a sharp turn, and you don\u0027t know what\u0027s around the corner. It could be a waterfall, it could be a big pool. The narrative current carries you. You\u0027re surprised, and you\u0027re thrilled, and sometimes you\u0027re terrified.",
        "Author": "Peter Heller"
    },
    {
        "Id": 41,
        "Quote": "Stereotypes, they\u0027re sensual, cultural weapons. That\u0027s the way that we attack people. At an artistic level, stereotypes are terrible writing.",
        "Author": "Junot Diaz"
    },
    {
        "Id": 42,
        "Quote": "I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the other hand, the generation which interprets these writings will be an educated generation; they will understand me and say: \u0027Not all were asleep in the nighttime of our grandparents.\u0027",
        "Author": "Jose Rizal"
    },
    {
        "Id": 43,
        "Quote": "When I\u0027m writing, I\u0027m constantly thinking about myself, because it\u0027s the only experience I have to draw on. And I don\u0027t see an exact reflection of myself in every face in the audience, but I know that my songs have validity to them, and that\u0027s why the fans are there.",
        "Author": "Chester Bennington"
    },
    {
        "Id": 44,
        "Quote": "Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.",
        "Author": "Patricia Reilly Giff"
    },
    {
        "Id": 45,
        "Quote": "Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.",
        "Author": "Robert Frost"
    },
    {
        "Id": 46,
        "Quote": "I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.",
        "Author": "Charles Kuralt"
    },
    {
        "Id": 47,
        "Quote": "The primary thing writing and basketball share is the sense that each time you go out, each time you play or begin a piece, it\u0027s a new day. You can score 40 points one game, but the next game, those points don\u0027t count. You can win the Nobel Literature Prize, but that doesn\u0027t make the next sentence of the next book appear.",
        "Author": "John Edgar Wideman"
    },
    {
        "Id": 48,
        "Quote": "I looked at myself, and I just said, \u0027Well, you know, I can sing, but I\u0027m not the greatest singer in the world. I can play guitar very well, but I\u0027m not the greatest guitar player in the world.\u0027 So I said, \u0027Well, if I\u0027m going to project an individuality, it\u0027s going to have to be in my writing.\u0027",
        "Author": "Bruce Springsteen"
    },
    {
        "Id": 49,
        "Quote": "I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that\u0027s needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa.",
        "Author": "John Dalton"
    },
    {
        "Id": 50,
        "Quote": "With my writing, I can still play inside an enchanted castle or live inside an old fort. I can run from ghosts or ride dolphins any day of the week.",
        "Author": "Mary Pope Osborne"
    },
    {
        "Id": 51,
        "Quote": "Every time I think I know what\u0027s right and wrong, I end up being wrong. All I want to do is explore. I want to see what people would do. I say, \u0027What would this person do in this situation?\u0027 and I write it down. I\u0027m not writing manifestos of my political views.",
        "Author": "Carolyn Chute"
    },
    {
        "Id": 52,
        "Quote": "You don\u0027t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it\u0027s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That\u0027s why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.",
        "Author": "Octavia Butler"
    },
    {
        "Id": 53,
        "Quote": "When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.",
        "Author": "John Adams"
    },
    {
        "Id": 54,
        "Quote": "I spent most of this afternoon writing a new introduction for my autobiography.",
        "Author": "June Foray"
    },
    {
        "Id": 55,
        "Quote": "You fail only if you stop writing.",
        "Author": "Ray Bradbury"
    },
    {
        "Id": 56,
        "Quote": "Fantasy is my favorite genre for reading and writing. We have more options than anyone else, and the best props and special effects. That means if you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you\u0027re at it? Go ahead.",
        "Author": "Patrick Rothfuss"
    },
    {
        "Id": 57,
        "Quote": "Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.",
        "Author": "N. Scott Momaday"
    },
    {
        "Id": 58,
        "Quote": "When you\u0027re writing, you\u0027re conjuring. It\u0027s a ritual, and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you\u0027re inviting into the room.",
        "Author": "Tom Waits"
    },
    {
        "Id": 59,
        "Quote": "In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I\u0027ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.",
        "Author": "Ray Bradbury"
    },
    {
        "Id": 60,
        "Quote": "Writing is a journey of discovery because until you start, you never know what will happen, and you can be surprised by what you do - expect the unexpected!",
        "Author": "Mini Grey"
    },
    {
        "Id": 61,
        "Quote": "If I haven\u0027t any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.",
        "Author": "Anne Frank"
    },
    {
        "Id": 62,
        "Quote": "I only type every third night. I have no plan. My mind is a blank. I sit down. The typewriter gives me things I don\u0027t even know I\u0027m working on. It\u0027s a free lunch. A free dinner. I don\u0027t know how long it is going to continue, but so far there is nothing easier than writing.",
        "Author": "Charles Bukowski"
    },
    {
        "Id": 63,
        "Quote": "I have a very large shoebox overflowing with lyrics I\u0027ve been writing and collecting since my teen years and into my late 20s, with lyrics from all walks of my life. Darkness, being in love, being heartbroken, finding yourself... and lyrics that I\u0027ve been sitting on for, like, seven years, that I haven\u0027t done anything with.",
        "Author": "Evan Rachel Wood"
    },
    {
        "Id": 64,
        "Quote": "I grew up with my little brother, and we were raised by my grandmother. I was an insider for real. I stayed in the house a lot, writing songs or playing video games, watching TV, or chilling with my girlfriend.",
        "Author": "Bryson Tiller"
    },
    {
        "Id": 65,
        "Quote": "I look for ambiguity when I\u0027m writing because life is ambiguous.",
        "Author": "Keith Richards"
    },
    {
        "Id": 66,
        "Quote": "Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author\u0027s life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is.",
        "Author": "Sarah Zettel"
    },
    {
        "Id": 67,
        "Quote": "My younger brother and I have been writing together, mainly for fun, for years, but we\u0027ve been improvising together since we were kids. Literally.",
        "Author": "Ty Burrell"
    },
    {
        "Id": 68,
        "Quote": "The beautiful part of writing is that you don\u0027t have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.",
        "Author": "Robert Cormier"
    },
    {
        "Id": 69,
        "Quote": "I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For me, that editing process feels like a form of play, like a puzzle that needs solving, and it\u0027s one of the most satisfying parts of writing.",
        "Author": "Karen Thompson Walker"
    },
    {
        "Id": 70,
        "Quote": "You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.",
        "Author": "Junot Diaz"
    },
    {
        "Id": 71,
        "Quote": "There\u0027s something to be said for writing in the morning. At other points in the day, you\u0027re a bit more defensive.",
        "Author": "Alex Turner"
    },
    {
        "Id": 72,
        "Quote": "I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer. Come dream with me.",
        "Author": "Sharon Draper"
    },
    {
        "Id": 73,
        "Quote": "Writing, of course, is writing, acting comes from the theater, and cinematography comes from photography. Editing is unique to film. You can see something from different points of view almost simultaneously, and it creates a new experience.",
        "Author": "Stanley Kubrick"
    },
    {
        "Id": 74,
        "Quote": "How thin and insecure is that little beach of white sand we call consciousness. I\u0027ve always known that in my writing it is the dark troubled sea of which I know nothing, save its presence, that carried me. I\u0027ve always felt that creating was a fearless and a timid, a despairing and hopeful, launching out into that unknown.",
        "Author": "Athol Fugard"
    },
    {
        "Id": 75,
        "Quote": "Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.",
        "Author": "Jorge Luis Borges"
    },
    {
        "Id": 76,
        "Quote": "No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.",
        "Author": "Booker T. Washington"
    },
    {
        "Id": 77,
        "Quote": "In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.",
        "Author": "William S. Burroughs"
    },
    {
        "Id": 78,
        "Quote": "Even when I am writing I usually take a break around lunchtime and go for a little walk to clear out my head.",
        "Author": "Patricia Cornwell"
    },
    {
        "Id": 79,
        "Quote": "People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don\u0027t know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.",
        "Author": "J. K. Rowling"
    },
    {
        "Id": 80,
        "Quote": "People spend a lifetime thinking about how they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me it\u0027s very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing \u0027Love in the Time of Cholera.\u0027",
        "Author": "Gabriel Garcia Marquez"
    },
    {
        "Id": 81,
        "Quote": "I love the writing. I love the idea of typing and seeing it on the computer and printing it out myself and, you know, moving sentences around. I like that.",
        "Author": "Carol Burnett"
    },
    {
        "Id": 82,
        "Quote": "One strange quality of writing about political campaigns is that it\u0027s a little like writing about a baseball game inning by inning. We presume we can say something about the final result from the state of play a third of the way through. You can when a game is a colossal blowout, but you can\u0027t when it\u0027s close.",
        "Author": "John Podhoretz"
    },
    {
        "Id": 83,
        "Quote": "It\u0027s not very fashionable, but I love life, and I believe that things disappear and reappear and nothing ever solidifies, no matter how middle-class, housebroken, staid, and solitary someone\u0027s life seems to be. That, I think, is what I\u0027m writing about.",
        "Author": "Colum McCann"
    },
    {
        "Id": 84,
        "Quote": "I started writing \u0027Leaves Of Grass\u0027 when my professional life was falling apart somewhat. I just had a movie implode in pre-production. And so I came back licking my wounds to New York, where I live, and started to write a script about a protagonist for whom the exact same thing happened: His life was falling apart.",
        "Author": "Tim Blake Nelson"
    },
    {
        "Id": 85,
        "Quote": "Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?",
        "Author": "Annie Dillard"
    },
    {
        "Id": 86,
        "Quote": "I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those days. I wrote things to get them out of feeling them, and onto paper. So writing in a way saved me, kept me company. I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn\u0027t know.",
        "Author": "Carrie Fisher"
    },
    {
        "Id": 87,
        "Quote": "I always rewrite the very beginning of a novel. I rewrite the beginning as I write the ending, so I may spend part of morning writing the ending, the last 100 pages approximately, and then part of the morning revising the beginning. So the style of the novel has a consistency.",
        "Author": "Joyce Carol Oates"
    },
    {
        "Id": 88,
        "Quote": "I came across humanity in Istanbul, and all I know about life comes from Istanbul, and definitely, I am writing about Istanbul. I also love the city because I live there, it has formed me, and it\u0027s me. Of course it is natural. If somebody lived all his life in Delhi, he will write about Delhi.",
        "Author": "Orhan Pamuk"
    },
    {
        "Id": 89,
        "Quote": "I was learning the craft; I didn\u0027t study writing in school. Rejection was my motivation, and failure is what taught me.",
        "Author": "Pierce Brown"
    },
    {
        "Id": 90,
        "Quote": "In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.",
        "Author": "Langston Hughes"
    },
    {
        "Id": 91,
        "Quote": "Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.",
        "Author": "E. L. Doctorow"
    },
    {
        "Id": 92,
        "Quote": "If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn\u0027t know how to live. It\u0027s your best friend.",
        "Author": "Jessi Colter"
    },
    {
        "Id": 93,
        "Quote": "If you know what you are going to write when you\u0027re writing a poem, it\u0027s going to be average.",
        "Author": "Derek Walcott"
    },
    {
        "Id": 94,
        "Quote": "I\u0027m the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of getting to the community and being alone, and it\u0027s the best of both possible worlds.",
        "Author": "Ariel Dorfman"
    },
    {
        "Id": 95,
        "Quote": "I find in my own writing that only fiction - and rarely, a poem - fully tests me to the kind of limits of what I know and what I feel.",
        "Author": "John Updike"
    },
    {
        "Id": 96,
        "Quote": "Never think you can\u0027t do something. I definitely never thought I could write a book, and even after I started writing it, I was like, \u0027Oh my God, how am I gonna write a book?\u0027 Just set your sights high and reach for the stars. Go live your dreams, and never think you can\u0027t.",
        "Author": "Connor Franta"
    },
    {
        "Id": 97,
        "Quote": "Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn\u0027t mean to but I just did.",
        "Author": "Adele"
    },
    {
        "Id": 98,
        "Quote": "To have a successful writing career, you must be willing to sacrifice a great deal. The book, the deadline come first before anything else. Writing is not a job; it is a lifestyle, and it is a roller-coaster ride of highs and lows. You need self-confidence and an iron carapace.",
        "Author": "Virginia Henley"
    },
    {
        "Id": 99,
        "Quote": "To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it\u0027s about, but the inner music that words make.",
        "Author": "Truman Capote"
    },
    {
        "Id": 100,
        "Quote": "The desire to write grows with writing.",
        "Author": "Desiderius Erasmus"
    },
    {
        "Id": 101,
        "Quote": "If you invent something, you\u0027re doing a creative act. It\u0027s like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and soul into it, and money. It\u0027s years of your life, it\u0027s your house remortgaged, huge emotional investment and financial investment.",
        "Author": "James Dyson"
    },
    {
        "Id": 102,
        "Quote": "Writing for theatre is certainly different to writing an essay or any other kind of fiction or prose: it\u0027s physical. You\u0027re also telling a story, but sometimes the story isn\u0027t exactly what you intend; maybe you uncover something you had no idea you were going to uncover.",
        "Author": "Sam Shepard"
    },
    {
        "Id": 103,
        "Quote": "I\u0027ve been surprised at how much an unknown like myself can accomplish just by reaching out to people and pleading my case. Quotes for the book cover, reviews and interviews, readings and radio appearances - all this by simply moving ahead and making contact with folks I thought might enjoy the writing.",
        "Author": "Patrick deWitt"
    },
    {
        "Id": 104,
        "Quote": "Sometimes I\u0027ve called writing a disease. If so, I\u0027m glad that it caught me.",
        "Author": "Charles Bukowski"
    },
    {
        "Id": 105,
        "Quote": "Suspense arises naturally from good writing - it\u0027s not a spice to be added separately.",
        "Author": "Leigh Michaels"
    },
    {
        "Id": 106,
        "Quote": "Sometimes I have a melody in my head; sometimes it\u0027s just a verse. I read lines from a book or movies that I watch and grab a few quotes and start writing on paper. From there, I record a really rough version and work on the song.",
        "Author": "Yuna"
    },
    {
        "Id": 107,
        "Quote": "Good writing is like a windowpane.",
        "Author": "George Orwell"
    },
    {
        "Id": 108,
        "Quote": "I don\u0027t love the way I look. Nobody does, and if they do, I don\u0027t want to be that person\u0027s friend. But we all know what we\u0027re insecure about. The question I had as I was writing was, \u0027How are these things affecting the way I live? How am I compensating because I don\u0027t like this about myself? What do I do to cover it up?\u0027",
        "Author": "Tyler Joseph"
    },
    {
        "Id": 109,
        "Quote": "Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.",
        "Author": "Truman Capote"
    },
    {
        "Id": 110,
        "Quote": "Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.",
        "Author": "William Strunk, Jr."
    },
    {
        "Id": 111,
        "Quote": "Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.",
        "Author": "Ross Perot"
    },
    {
        "Id": 112,
        "Quote": "One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.",
        "Author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
    },
    {
        "Id": 113,
        "Quote": "My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.",
        "Author": "Anais Nin"
    },
    {
        "Id": 114,
        "Quote": "I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.",
        "Author": "Winston Churchill"
    },
    {
        "Id": 115,
        "Quote": "In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.",
        "Author": "George Orwell"
    },
    {
        "Id": 116,
        "Quote": "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.",
        "Author": "Henri Frederic Amiel"
    },
    {
        "Id": 117,
        "Quote": "One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.",
        "Author": "Rachel Field"
    },
    {
        "Id": 118,
        "Quote": "When I\u0027m writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain.",
        "Author": "Donna Tartt"
    },
    {
        "Id": 119,
        "Quote": "We don\u0027t perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can\u0027t choose how you want to express yourself anymore.",
        "Author": "Alexander Kluge"
    },
    {
        "Id": 120,
        "Quote": "To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I\u0027m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I\u0027m going to play for the opening sequence.",
        "Author": "Quentin Tarantino"
    },
    {
        "Id": 121,
        "Quote": "A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.",
        "Author": "Marcus Garvey"
    },
    {
        "Id": 122,
        "Quote": "Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.",
        "Author": "Jessamyn West"
    },
    {
        "Id": 123,
        "Quote": "Love is easy, and I love writing. You can\u0027t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you\u0027re in love.",
        "Author": "Ray Bradbury"
    },
    {
        "Id": 124,
        "Quote": "Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better.",
        "Author": "Catie Curtis"
    },
    {
        "Id": 125,
        "Quote": "I\u0027m very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.",
        "Author": "Johnny Cash"
    },
    {
        "Id": 126,
        "Quote": "Storytelling is my currency. It\u0027s my only worth. The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out.",
        "Author": "Kevin Smith"
    },
    {
        "Id": 127,
        "Quote": "Not to say people shouldn\u0027t get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic.",
        "Author": "Jerry Saltz"
    },
    {
        "Id": 128,
        "Quote": "Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer side is making the beat. And on a good day, my rapper side will jump in and start the writing process - maybe come up with a hook or start a verse. Sometimes it just happens like that. A song like \u0027Lights Please\u0027 happens like that.",
        "Author": "J. Cole"
    },
    {
        "Id": 129,
        "Quote": "For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don\u0027t have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.",
        "Author": "Sam Shepard"
    },
    {
        "Id": 130,
        "Quote": "Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetites and flood whole depths while plumbing them, but if you are serious about it you also get to put something into the world that wasn\u0027t quite there before.",
        "Author": "Andrew O\u0027Hagan"
    },
    {
        "Id": 131,
        "Quote": "Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind.",
        "Author": "Meg Rosoff"
    },
    {
        "Id": 132,
        "Quote": "A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in common - the desire to write - could almost be considered meaningless.",
        "Author": "Rachel Cusk"
    },
    {
        "Id": 133,
        "Quote": "Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, illuminate your little patch of ground, the people that you know, the things that you want to commemorate. Light them up with your art, with your music, with your writing, with whatever it is that you do.",
        "Author": "Alan Moore"
    },
    {
        "Id": 134,
        "Quote": "When I\u0027m not acting, I\u0027m writing, building an inventory of scripts. Even if they sit on the shelf, I just keep stacking them up.",
        "Author": "Dan Aykroyd"
    },
    {
        "Id": 135,
        "Quote": "I think all of my writing life led up to the writing of \u0027The Train Driver\u0027 because it deals with my own inherited blindness and guilt and all of what being a white South African in South Africa during those apartheid years meant.",
        "Author": "Athol Fugard"
    },
    {
        "Id": 136,
        "Quote": "Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place. Over the years, I had my heart broken so badly that if I didn\u0027t find a way to get all the pain out, I was going to lose my mind. I was crazy! Like, wanting to slash tires and smash car windows. Crazy! I was so hurt that I had to write.",
        "Author": "Jill Scott"
    },
    {
        "Id": 137,
        "Quote": "I write for kids because I think the most interesting (and most humorous) stories come from people\u0027s childhoods. When I was writing \u0027Diary of a Wimpy Kid,\u0027 I had a blast talking on the phone to my younger brother, Patrick, remembering all of the things that happened to our family when we were growing up.",
        "Author": "Jeff Kinney"
    },
    {
        "Id": 138,
        "Quote": "Writing is a spiritual practice in that people that have no spiritual path can undertake it and, as they write, they begin to wake up to a larger connection. After a while, people tend to find that there is some muse that they are connecting to.",
        "Author": "Julia Cameron"
    },
    {
        "Id": 139,
        "Quote": "Writing is a solitary experience. I\u0027m extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It\u0027s so intimate, I can\u0027t even share it with my wife.",
        "Author": "Paulo Coelho"
    },
    {
        "Id": 140,
        "Quote": "Writing is powerful. Whether it\u0027s a little girl hiding from the Nazis in an attic, or Amnesty International writing letters on behalf of political prisoners, the power of telling stories is usually what causes change.",
        "Author": "Erin Gruwell"
    },
    {
        "Id": 141,
        "Quote": "I feel myself part of something. Not only being part of a community but part of an actual moment and a movement of Irish writing and art. That sense of being part of the whole thing is the deepest joy.",
        "Author": "Seamus Heaney"
    },
    {
        "Id": 142,
        "Quote": "Through my writing, I have made new friends and continued to learn about this world of ours in all its wonder, with all its challenges.",
        "Author": "Sonia Levitin"
    },
    {
        "Id": 143,
        "Quote": "When I\u0027m writing, I separate from everyone. Even my band. I push myself, and I\u0027m alone with my thoughts. Separating from friends and comforts and family lets you think a lot deeper about subject matter. Working alone drives me a little crazy, but it makes the writing as honest as possible.",
        "Author": "Vic Fuentes"
    },
    {
        "Id": 144,
        "Quote": "Writing music and lyrics, you tend to become a control freak - sitting alone in your room with a bare light bulb over your head, writing communist manifestos.",
        "Author": "Jason Robert Brown"
    },
    {
        "Id": 145,
        "Quote": "We have a host of English teachers in the family. My mum is an English teacher, and so are my dad, my aunt and my uncle. I have grown up with family writing competitions, and I can\u0027t remember a birthday or Christmas present that didn\u0027t include books.",
        "Author": "Alexandra Adornetto"
    },
    {
        "Id": 146,
        "Quote": "I think very abstractly when I\u0027m writing. Then, as the project moves on, it becomes more like sculpting.",
        "Author": "James Horner"
    },
    {
        "Id": 147,
        "Quote": "There are other types of public appearances a writer does in addition to book signings and readings. Each calls for different skills. None of these skills, needless to say, are those that go into writing books.",
        "Author": "Jane Lindskold"
    },
    {
        "Id": 148,
        "Quote": "Most memoir writers will tell you that the hardest part of writing a memoir isn\u0027t what to include, but what to leave out.",
        "Author": "Kathleen Flinn"
    },
    {
        "Id": 149,
        "Quote": "I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.",
        "Author": "Alice Walker"
    },
    {
        "Id": 150,
        "Quote": "I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until I have a solid sense of how that ending sounds and feels. You have to know what your voice sounds like at the end of the story, because it tells you how to sound when you begin.",
        "Author": "John Irving"
    },
    {
        "Id": 151,
        "Quote": "My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.",
        "Author": "Langston Hughes"
    },
    {
        "Id": 152,
        "Quote": "Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that\u0027s often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I\u0027ll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I\u0027ll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I\u0027ll find one when I exercise.",
        "Author": "Adam Grant"
    },
    {
        "Id": 153,
        "Quote": "When I started writing, I was a great rationalist and believed I was absolutely in control. But the older one gets, the more confused, and for an artist I think that is quite a good thing: you allow in more of your instinctual self; your dreams, fantasies and memories. It\u0027s richer, in a way.",
        "Author": "John Banville"
    },
    {
        "Id": 154,
        "Quote": "Writing has always had that tactile quality for me. It\u0027s a physical experience.",
        "Author": "Paul Auster"
    },
    {
        "Id": 155,
        "Quote": "Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.",
        "Author": "Roald Dahl"
    },
    {
        "Id": 156,
        "Quote": "A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.",
        "Author": "Robert McNamara"
    },
    {
        "Id": 157,
        "Quote": "I talk to my readers on social networking sites, but I never tell them what the book is about. Writing is lonely, so from time to time I talk to them on the Internet. It\u0027s like chatting at a bar without leaving your office. I talk with them about a lot of things other than my books.",
        "Author": "Paulo Coelho"
    },
    {
        "Id": 158,
        "Quote": "Writing is like travelling. It\u0027s wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.",
        "Author": "Langston Hughes"
    },
    {
        "Id": 159,
        "Quote": "Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.",
        "Author": "Truman Capote"
    },
    {
        "Id": 160,
        "Quote": "Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.",
        "Author": "E. L. Doctorow"
    },
    {
        "Id": 161,
        "Quote": "I love comedy and I would write things to myself as an exercise in writing. I didn\u0027t do well for years, and I quit. I started to break down why I was afraid and started to look at people I admired, like Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Freddie Prinze, George Carlin and all.",
        "Author": "George Lopez"
    },
    {
        "Id": 162,
        "Quote": "When I got a little older, I started writing for the high school newspaper, \u0027The Maroon Wave,\u0027 and that\u0027s when I fell in love with journalism.",
        "Author": "Jeannette Walls"
    },
    {
        "Id": 163,
        "Quote": "I enjoy writing about people falling in love, probably because I think the first time you fall in love is the first time that you have to figure out how you\u0027re going to orient your life. What are you going to value? What\u0027s going to be most important to you? And I think that\u0027s really interesting to write about.",
        "Author": "John Green"
    },
    {
        "Id": 164,
        "Quote": "Don\u0027t worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.",
        "Author": "Michael Morpurgo"
    },
    {
        "Id": 165,
        "Quote": "I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir is, in some ways, a work of wholeness.",
        "Author": "Sue Monk Kidd"
    },
    {
        "Id": 166,
        "Quote": "At the beginning of my career as a writer, I felt I knew nothing of Chinese culture. I was writing about emotional confusion with my mother related to our different beliefs. Hers was based in family history, which I didn\u0027t know anything about. I always felt hesitant in talking about Chinese culture and American culture.",
        "Author": "Amy Tan"
    },
    {
        "Id": 167,
        "Quote": "The main problem with writing in verse is, if your fourth line doesn\u0027t come out right, you\u0027ve got to throw four lines away and figure out a whole new way to attack the problem. So the mortality rate is terrific.",
        "Author": "Dr. Seuss"
    },
    {
        "Id": 168,
        "Quote": "I love writing plays because they are living, fluid things that are energised by the producer, designers, musicians, actors and audience.",
        "Author": "Berlie Doherty"
    },
    {
        "Id": 169,
        "Quote": "After you finish a book, you know, you\u0027re dead. But no one knows you\u0027re dead. All they see is the irresponsibility that comes in after the terrible responsibility of writing.",
        "Author": "Ernest Hemingway"
    },
    {
        "Id": 170,
        "Quote": "Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.",
        "Author": "Cyril Connolly"
    },
    {
        "Id": 171,
        "Quote": "There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.",
        "Author": "W. Somerset Maugham"
    },
    {
        "Id": 172,
        "Quote": "Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.",
        "Author": "Terry Pratchett"
    },
    {
        "Id": 173,
        "Quote": "The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.",
        "Author": "Ralph Ellison"
    },
    {
        "Id": 174,
        "Quote": "The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.",
        "Author": "Kenneth Tynan"
    },
    {
        "Id": 175,
        "Quote": "Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.",
        "Author": "Mario Vargas Llosa"
    },
    {
        "Id": 176,
        "Quote": "Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.",
        "Author": "John le Carre"
    },
    {
        "Id": 177,
        "Quote": "Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man\u0027s thinking or his writing.",
        "Author": "Isaac Bashevis Singer"
    },
    {
        "Id": 178,
        "Quote": "If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don\u0027t write, because our culture has no use for it.",
        "Author": "Anais Nin"
    },
    {
        "Id": 179,
        "Quote": "Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.",
        "Author": "Jessamyn West"
    },
    {
        "Id": 180,
        "Quote": "Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It\u0027s the most fun thing I do.",
        "Author": "Shania Twain"
    },
    {
        "Id": 181,
        "Quote": "If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.",
        "Author": "Hugh Prather"
    },
    {
        "Id": 182,
        "Quote": "Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one\u0027s luck.",
        "Author": "Iris Murdoch"
    },
    {
        "Id": 183,
        "Quote": "If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.",
        "Author": "Benjamin Franklin"
    },
    {
        "Id": 184,
        "Quote": "Writing is turning one\u0027s worst moments into money.",
        "Author": "J. P. Donleavy"
    },
    {
        "Id": 185,
        "Quote": "I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.",
        "Author": "Robert Frost"
    },
    {
        "Id": 186,
        "Quote": "I\u0027ve tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I\u0027m afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.",
        "Author": "Ernest Hemingway"
    },
    {
        "Id": 187,
        "Quote": "Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.",
        "Author": "W. Somerset Maugham"
    },
    {
        "Id": 188,
        "Quote": "I get a fine warm feeling when I\u0027m doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let\u0027s face it, writing is hell.",
        "Author": "William Styron"
    },
    {
        "Id": 189,
        "Quote": "In twenty years I\u0027ve never had a day when I didn\u0027t have to think about someone else\u0027s needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.",
        "Author": "Alice Munro"
    },
    {
        "Id": 190,
        "Quote": "The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am... and that\u0027s what it\u0027s about.",
        "Author": "Nana Visitor"
    },
    {
        "Id": 191,
        "Quote": "It\u0027s like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it\u0027s off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think.",
        "Author": "Johnny Cash"
    },
    {
        "Id": 192,
        "Quote": "I want to be as honest as I can about the things I\u0027ve been through - the sorrows and joys, victories and defeats - and to use those experiences as a well to draw from. Hopefully, the songs that result from that kind of writing will be songs that mean something to others.",
        "Author": "Jim Cole"
    },
    {
        "Id": 193,
        "Quote": "Send it to someone who can publish it. And if they won\u0027t publish it, send it to someone else who can publish it! And keep sending it! Of course, if no one will publish it, at that point you might want to think about doing something other than writing.",
        "Author": "Robert B. Parker"
    },
    {
        "Id": 194,
        "Quote": "The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it\u0027s icy, and I\u0027m in bare feet.",
        "Author": "Mary Higgins Clark"
    },
    {
        "Id": 195,
        "Quote": "There\u0027s always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful.",
        "Author": "Nicholas Sparks"
    },
    {
        "Id": 196,
        "Quote": "I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book.",
        "Author": "Frank McCourt"
    },
    {
        "Id": 197,
        "Quote": "No, originally I thought that writing articles would keep me from having to see a psychiatrist, but I became even more depressed as a result.",
        "Author": "Theo Van Gogh"
    },
    {
        "Id": 198,
        "Quote": "I just love writing. It\u0027s magical, it\u0027s somewhere else to go, it\u0027s somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.",
        "Author": "Tanith Lee"
    },
    {
        "Id": 199,
        "Quote": "The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia.",
        "Author": "Tracy Kidder"
    },
    {
        "Id": 200,
        "Quote": "So that\u0027s the dissenter\u0027s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.",
        "Author": "Ruth Bader Ginsburg"
    },
    {
        "Id": 201,
        "Quote": "My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly.",
        "Author": "Anita Desai"
    },
    {
        "Id": 202,
        "Quote": "My employer was never at any time aware of anything in my past beyond the writing I did, because, frankly, it isn\u0027t relevant to the job I was asked to do, which was to be a reporter.",
        "Author": "Jeff Gannon"
    },
    {
        "Id": 203,
        "Quote": "If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that\u0027s more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people.",
        "Author": "Dean Koontz"
    },
    {
        "Id": 204,
        "Quote": "I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve.",
        "Author": "Jane Asher"
    },
    {
        "Id": 205,
        "Quote": "At the same time, it\u0027s a family story and more of an epic. I needed the third-person. I tried to give a sense that Cal, in writing his story, is perhaps inventing his past as much as recalling it.",
        "Author": "Jeffrey Eugenides"
    },
    {
        "Id": 206,
        "Quote": "I\u0027ve been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception.",
        "Author": "Jimmy Carl Black"
    },
    {
        "Id": 207,
        "Quote": "I\u0027ve read somewhere that when you\u0027re writing, you should stop while you\u0027re doing well so you always want to go back to work.",
        "Author": "Glenn Frey"
    },
    {
        "Id": 208,
        "Quote": "And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.",
        "Author": "Larry David"
    },
    {
        "Id": 209,
        "Quote": "My only real claim to anyone\u0027s attention lies in my writing.",
        "Author": "Philip Pullman"
    },
    {
        "Id": 210,
        "Quote": "Surely the whole point of writing your own life story is to be as honest as you possibly can, revealing everything about yourself that is most private and probably most interesting for that very reason.",
        "Author": "Judith Krantz"
    },
    {
        "Id": 211,
        "Quote": "Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre.",
        "Author": "Pete Townshend"
    },
    {
        "Id": 212,
        "Quote": "I have no reason to sit home and write songs all day without going out and playing for the folks. And I have no reason to go play for the folks unless I\u0027m writing new songs so they can sort of feed off one another. And I just try to do the best I can.",
        "Author": "Guy Clark"
    },
    {
        "Id": 213,
        "Quote": "I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends.",
        "Author": "Julia Ward Howe"
    },
    {
        "Id": 214,
        "Quote": "Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.",
        "Author": "Michael Pollan"
    },
    {
        "Id": 215,
        "Quote": "The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today.",
        "Author": "Boutros Boutros-Ghali"
    },
    {
        "Id": 216,
        "Quote": "You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.",
        "Author": "Carl Friedrich Gauss"
    },
    {
        "Id": 217,
        "Quote": "See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn\u0027t practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers.",
        "Author": "John Sladek"
    },
    {
        "Id": 218,
        "Quote": "The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It\u0027s not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.",
        "Author": "Augusten Burroughs"
    },
    {
        "Id": 219,
        "Quote": "When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.",
        "Author": "Stephen Sondheim"
    },
    {
        "Id": 220,
        "Quote": "Also, they don\u0027t understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.",
        "Author": "John Milius"
    },
    {
        "Id": 221,
        "Quote": "I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose.",
        "Author": "Shelby Foote"
    },
    {
        "Id": 222,
        "Quote": "There\u0027s an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing.",
        "Author": "David McCullough"
    },
    {
        "Id": 223,
        "Quote": "When I began writing, I didn\u0027t read any other children\u0027s poets... I didn\u0027t want to be influenced until I\u0027d found my own voice. Now I read them all.",
        "Author": "Jack Prelutsky"
    },
    {
        "Id": 224,
        "Quote": "I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it\u0027s fun, and sometimes it helps me with the meter.",
        "Author": "Jack Prelutsky"
    },
    {
        "Id": 225,
        "Quote": "In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease.",
        "Author": "Constance Baker Motley"
    },
    {
        "Id": 226,
        "Quote": "Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I\u0027d start writing poems about suicide.",
        "Author": "Jack Nicholson"
    },
    {
        "Id": 227,
        "Quote": "Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.",
        "Author": "Salma Hayek"
    },
    {
        "Id": 228,
        "Quote": "Writing is an antidote for loneliness.",
        "Author": "Steven Berkoff"
    },
    {
        "Id": 229,
        "Quote": "When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life drawing. I never kept a diary, I never wrote about my day and what happened to me, but I described things.",
        "Author": "John Irving"
    },
    {
        "Id": 230,
        "Quote": "When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn\u0027t writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.",
        "Author": "Ken Kesey"
    },
    {
        "Id": 231,
        "Quote": "My mother had always taught me to write about my feelings instead of sharing really personal things with others, so I spent many evenings writing in my diary, eating everything in the kitchen and waiting for Mr. Wrong to call.",
        "Author": "Cathy Guisewite"
    },
    {
        "Id": 232,
        "Quote": "There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.",
        "Author": "Orson Scott Card"
    },
    {
        "Id": 233,
        "Quote": "All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.",
        "Author": "V. S. Naipaul"
    },
    {
        "Id": 234,
        "Quote": "Learn as much by writing as by reading.",
        "Author": "Lord Acton"
    },
    {
        "Id": 235,
        "Quote": "Rock is all about writing your own script; it\u0027s all about pioneering.",
        "Author": "Courtney Love"
    },
    {
        "Id": 236,
        "Quote": "Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.",
        "Author": "Bernard Malamud"
    },
    {
        "Id": 237,
        "Quote": "Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?",
        "Author": "Joan Didion"
    },
    {
        "Id": 238,
        "Quote": "Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.",
        "Author": "Moliere"
    },
    {
        "Id": 239,
        "Quote": "Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.",
        "Author": "Gene Fowler"
    },
    {
        "Id": 240,
        "Quote": "Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.",
        "Author": "Napoleon Hill"
    },
    {
        "Id": 241,
        "Quote": "It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.",
        "Author": "Woodrow Wilson"
    },
    {
        "Id": 242,
        "Quote": "Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.",
        "Author": "Mary Oliver"
    },
    {
        "Id": 243,
        "Quote": "Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.",
        "Author": "Ernest Hemingway"
    },
    {
        "Id": 244,
        "Quote": "I don\u0027t care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you\u0027re also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.",
        "Author": "Nora Ephron"
    },
    {
        "Id": 245,
        "Quote": "The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!",
        "Author": "Bill Watterson"
    },
    {
        "Id": 246,
        "Quote": "Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.",
        "Author": "Malcolm Arnold"
    },
    {
        "Id": 247,
        "Quote": "I\u0027ve always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.",
        "Author": "Seamus Heaney"
    },
    {
        "Id": 248,
        "Quote": "We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.",
        "Author": "Viola Davis"
    },
    {
        "Id": 249,
        "Quote": "The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems like real life is flickering by and you\u0027re hardly a part of it. You remember the events in your books better than you remember the events that actually took place when you were writing them.",
        "Author": "George R. R. Martin"
    },
    {
        "Id": 250,
        "Quote": "\u0027Thank you power\u0027 is writing down the moments that are good in your life so that you can go back and reflect on them - so you\u0027ve got this sort of repository of good stuff in your past.",
        "Author": "Deborah Norville"
    },
    {
        "Id": 251,
        "Quote": "I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness.",
        "Author": "Carl Hiaasen"
    },
    {
        "Id": 252,
        "Quote": "I enjoy writing. I enjoy that kind of process.",
        "Author": "Caroline Kennedy"
    },
    {
        "Id": 253,
        "Quote": "I thought I\u0027d been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature.",
        "Author": "Sherman Alexie"
    },
    {
        "Id": 254,
        "Quote": "Writing is a lonely business.",
        "Author": "Sherman Alexie"
    },
    {
        "Id": 255,
        "Quote": "Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.",
        "Author": "Tatyana Tolstaya"
    },
    {
        "Id": 256,
        "Quote": "I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population - and gave birth to the whole world. Without them writing and being directors, the rest of us are not going to know the whole story.",
        "Author": "Jane Campion"
    },
    {
        "Id": 257,
        "Quote": "God flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking, communicating and writing back 50 years.",
        "Author": "Robert H. Schuller"
    },
    {
        "Id": 258,
        "Quote": "Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it\u0027s very hard work.",
        "Author": "Cheryl Strayed"
    },
    {
        "Id": 259,
        "Quote": "Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.",
        "Author": "Gabriel Garcia Marquez"
    },
    {
        "Id": 260,
        "Quote": "The cookbooks and the writing in general have been a real bonus, but it\u0027s not something I\u0027ve ever pursued... I\u0027ve been lucky, I guess.",
        "Author": "Padma Lakshmi"
    },
    {
        "Id": 261,
        "Quote": "Writing books is fun because after I do a show for a couple hours, I\u0027m in a bus for 22 hours. It\u0027s not hard for me to look out the window and tell a joke here and there.",
        "Author": "Willie Nelson"
    },
    {
        "Id": 262,
        "Quote": "I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.",
        "Author": "Patti Smith"
    },
    {
        "Id": 263,
        "Quote": "I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I\u0027m writing a poem or drawing, I\u0027m not a female; I\u0027m an artist.",
        "Author": "Patti Smith"
    },
    {
        "Id": 264,
        "Quote": "The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression - all of that is very important.",
        "Author": "Arnold Schwarzenegger"
    },
    {
        "Id": 265,
        "Quote": "I\u0027m drawn to almost any piece of writing with the words \u0027divine love\u0027 and \u0027impeachment\u0027 in the first sentence. But I know the word \u0027divine\u0027 makes many progressive people run screaming for their cute little lives, and so one hesitates to use it.",
        "Author": "Anne Lamott"
    },
    {
        "Id": 266,
        "Quote": "I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.",
        "Author": "Anne Lamott"
    },
    {
        "Id": 267,
        "Quote": "It\u0027s physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.",
        "Author": "Haruki Murakami"
    },
    {
        "Id": 268,
        "Quote": "For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I\u0027m still awake. I can continue yesterday\u0027s dream today, something you can\u0027t normally do in everyday life.",
        "Author": "Haruki Murakami"
    },
    {
        "Id": 269,
        "Quote": "I\u0027ve been writing my entire life, and I\u0027ll always write.",
        "Author": "J. K. Rowling"
    },
    {
        "Id": 270,
        "Quote": "I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer.",
        "Author": "Lee Child"
    },
    {
        "Id": 271,
        "Quote": "The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. I\u0027m caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points.",
        "Author": "Iris Johansen"
    },
    {
        "Id": 272,
        "Quote": "Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more driven by profits and marketing, and generally less congenial - but my day is the same: get out of bed, procrastinate, sit down at my desk, try to write something.",
        "Author": "Paul Theroux"
    },
    {
        "Id": 273,
        "Quote": "When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I\u0027ve gone on. I certainly don\u0027t feel I need his approval, although maybe that\u0027s because I\u0027m confident that I\u0027ve got it.",
        "Author": "Paul Theroux"
    },
    {
        "Id": 274,
        "Quote": "Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn\u0027t work that way.",
        "Author": "Lou Reed"
    },
    {
        "Id": 275,
        "Quote": "I can\u0027t remember writing any of the songs that I\u0027ve written.",
        "Author": "Fiona Apple"
    },
    {
        "Id": 276,
        "Quote": "I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there\u0027s something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it\u0027s not something that you\u0027re in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.",
        "Author": "Carrie Fisher"
    },
    {
        "Id": 277,
        "Quote": "If I\u0027m writing, I\u0027ll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very precise.",
        "Author": "Joyce Carol Oates"
    },
    {
        "Id": 278,
        "Quote": "I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in \u002786 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of communication. I had to use them.",
        "Author": "Jane Goodall"
    },
    {
        "Id": 279,
        "Quote": "I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.",
        "Author": "V. S. Naipaul"
    },
    {
        "Id": 280,
        "Quote": "When you\u0027re writing a novel, you spend four years sitting in your basement and a year waiting for the book to come out and then you get the feedback. When you do work online, the moment you\u0027re finished making it, people start responding to it which is really fun and allows for a kind of community development you just can\u0027t have in novels.",
        "Author": "John Green"
    },
    {
        "Id": 281,
        "Quote": "Every time I try to set something in Chicago, I get intimidated by \u0027Augie March.\u0027 It\u0027s easy to set something in Indianapolis - we don\u0027t have \u0027Augie March\u0027 here. But I love writing about Chicago, and I love being there and imagining lives in Chicago. I hope to set something there in the future, but it\u0027s intimidating.",
        "Author": "John Green"
    },
    {
        "Id": 282,
        "Quote": "If there was anything that I learned with my own writing process, maybe there\u0027s too many choices what to write about. Just the amount of subject matter in the world these days; maybe that feels chaotic for me.",
        "Author": "Eddie Vedder"
    },
    {
        "Id": 283,
        "Quote": "I know a lot of writers who would much rather be writing the Great American Novel, but they\u0027ve got bills to pay and alimony, and so they take a job at a less-than-reputable paper. You know, you do what you gotta do.",
        "Author": "Eric Stoltz"
    },
    {
        "Id": 284,
        "Quote": "For some artists the live performance is the chicken before the egg of writing or recording of repertoire. For other artists the writing or recording of repertoire is the chicken before the egg of live performance.",
        "Author": "Frank Black"
    },
    {
        "Id": 285,
        "Quote": "\u0027The Sopranos\u0027 all came down to the writing. I wouldn\u0027t have been on for as long as I was if the writing weren\u0027t so good.",
        "Author": "James Gandolfini"
    },
    {
        "Id": 286,
        "Quote": "I realized going back and writing and explaining in details the difficulties I had lived actually became emotional again. It\u0027s like therapy but sometimes therapy can be painful. But it\u0027s part of life and part of the autobiography so I\u0027ll have to finish it sooner or later.",
        "Author": "Jenni Rivera"
    },
    {
        "Id": 287,
        "Quote": "I\u0027m no romantic, surfing, California boy. I like reading, writing, philosophizing. Scheming. I\u0027ve been doing some exploration of the inner space.",
        "Author": "Henry Hopper"
    },
    {
        "Id": 288,
        "Quote": "Other people are talking about writing books about my life, or about some of the things I\u0027ve done. I find it strange, but I also feel it\u0027s my life and my story, and I guess I better be the one to get it on paper the way it actually happened.",
        "Author": "Chris Kyle"
    },
    {
        "Id": 289,
        "Quote": "Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you\u0027re dealing with something that doesn\u0027t really exist.",
        "Author": "Anthony Horowitz"
    },
    {
        "Id": 290,
        "Quote": "Writing has always felt like a compulsion. Even at high school there\u0027d be times when people would ask me if I wanted to go and hang out and I\u0027d sit home and write instead.",
        "Author": "Amanda Hocking"
    },
    {
        "Id": 291,
        "Quote": "Writing is a very strenuous thing - it\u0027s like banging your head against a wall. At the end of the day, acting is better, just because nobody ever asked me if I wanted a Pellegrino in the writer\u0027s room.",
        "Author": "Donald Glover"
    },
    {
        "Id": 292,
        "Quote": "I think it starts to feel really redundant when you start to do something the same way over and over again. I don\u0027t think it\u0027s good to become so dependent on a certain writing process.",
        "Author": "Brie Larson"
    },
    {
        "Id": 293,
        "Quote": "A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I\u0027m writing is exactly that.",
        "Author": "Louise Penny"
    },
    {
        "Id": 294,
        "Quote": "For me, writing never gets easier. It\u0027s always hard work. It doesn\u0027t matter how many words you wrote the day before, or how many novels you\u0027ve completed in the last decade: every day you start fresh again with that same blank page, or that same blank screen.",
        "Author": "Lincoln Child"
    },
    {
        "Id": 295,
        "Quote": "I was kind of an outcast in school \u0027cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on tour with my brother band all the time, so kids didn\u0027t know what to make of me.",
        "Author": "Christina Perri"
    },
    {
        "Id": 296,
        "Quote": "I\u0027m lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.",
        "Author": "Ben Elton"
    },
    {
        "Id": 297,
        "Quote": "There\u0027s a gap somehow between empathy and activism. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke of \u0027soul force\u0027 - something that emanates from a deep truth inside of us and empowers us to act. Once you identify your inner genius, you will be able to take action, whether it\u0027s writing a check or digging a well.",
        "Author": "Sue Monk Kidd"
    },
    {
        "Id": 298,
        "Quote": "I think there\u0027s always satisfaction that comes from digging in and telling a story and being on the front line and writing about it. I think there\u0027s a venue available if you look. Even print journalism is in good shape in areas.",
        "Author": "Cameron Crowe"
    },
    {
        "Id": 299,
        "Quote": "Writing is like bricklaying; you put down one word after another. Sometimes the wall goes up straight and true and sometimes it doesn\u0027t and you have to push it down and start again, but you don\u0027t stop; it\u0027s your trade.",
        "Author": "Geraldine Brooks"
    },
    {
        "Id": 300,
        "Quote": "Write for yourself, not for a perceived audience. If you do, you\u0027ll mostly fall flat on your face, because it\u0027s impossible to judge what people want. And you have to read. That\u0027s how you learn what is good writing and what is bad. Then the main thing is application. It\u0027s hard work.",
        "Author": "Wilbur Smith"
    },
    {
        "Id": 301,
        "Quote": "Anyone interested in language ends up writing about the sociological issues around it.",
        "Author": "David Crystal"
    },
    {
        "Id": 302,
        "Quote": "Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.",
        "Author": "Annie Baker"
    },
    {
        "Id": 303,
        "Quote": "I think in many ways the problem that my writing would have with an American reviewer is that Americans find difficulty very hard to take. They are inevitably looking for a happy ending.",
        "Author": "Jamaica Kincaid"
    },
    {
        "Id": 304,
        "Quote": "You write a book and you finish the book. That\u0027s your job done, right? You win the Booker and you have a whole new job. You have to be the thing, right? So instead of writing the story, you somehow are the story. And that I found that sort of terrible.",
        "Author": "Anne Enright"
    },
    {
        "Id": 305,
        "Quote": "I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing. I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.",
        "Author": "Alan Lightman"
    },
    {
        "Id": 306,
        "Quote": "Storytelling is storytelling. Good stories need compelling characters and interesting conflicts. That\u0027s the bottom line no matter what medium you\u0027re writing for.",
        "Author": "D. J. MacHale"
    },
    {
        "Id": 307,
        "Quote": "While writing \u0027Half of a Yellow Sun,\u0027 I enjoyed playing with minor things: inventing a train station in a town that has none, placing towns closer to each other than they are, changing the chronology of conquered cities. Yet I did not play with the central events of that time.",
        "Author": "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie"
    },
    {
        "Id": 308,
        "Quote": "The first record I spent five years writing and it was an amalgamation of all the things that happened in my life from the time I was fifteen to the time I was twenty.",
        "Author": "Kate Voegele"
    },
    {
        "Id": 309,
        "Quote": "I see creative-writing classes as some sort of AA meeting. It is more of a support group for people who write than an actual course in which you learn writing skills. This support group is extremely important because there is something very lonely about writing.",
        "Author": "Etgar Keret"
    },
    {
        "Id": 310,
        "Quote": "It\u0027s often hilarious to me that I\u0027m writing about Tonga or some tropical place and there\u0027s a blizzard outside and the cows are on their backs with their hooves in the air.",
        "Author": "Tim Cahill"
    },
    {
        "Id": 311,
        "Quote": "I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go much deeper into my thoughts and memories than conversation does. Writing provides the solitude necessary to reflect on being in this world.",
        "Author": "Leslie Marmon Silko"
    },
    {
        "Id": 312,
        "Quote": "Putting words on paper regularly is part of the necessary discipline of writing. A journal is a great way to do that.",
        "Author": "Pearl Cleage"
    },
    {
        "Id": 313,
        "Quote": "\u0027Harry Potter\u0027 opened so many doors for young adult literature. It really did convince the publishing industry that writing for children was a viable enterprise. And it also convinced a lot of people that kids will read if we give them books that they care about and love.",
        "Author": "Rick Riordan"
    },
    {
        "Id": 314,
        "Quote": "I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.",
        "Author": "Rick Riordan"
    },
    {
        "Id": 315,
        "Quote": "I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.",
        "Author": "Bill Viola"
    },
    {
        "Id": 316,
        "Quote": "We\u0027re journalists, so our default position is we\u0027re not writing editorial. We\u0027re trying to bring information to readers, viewers, so that they can make up their own conclusions.",
        "Author": "Tim Hetherington"
    },
    {
        "Id": 317,
        "Quote": "I started writing seriously when I was a teenager, around 14 years old.",
        "Author": "Marie Lu"
    },
    {
        "Id": 318,
        "Quote": "My writing is progressing slowly, but at least it\u0027s moving forward. I\u0027m sure that\u0027s the case. The only problem is that I\u0027m never absolutely certain that what I\u0027ve written is any good.",
        "Author": "Mikhail Bulgakov"
    },
    {
        "Id": 319,
        "Quote": "I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.",
        "Author": "Seth Godin"
    },
    {
        "Id": 320,
        "Quote": "Habits like blogging often and regularly, writing down the way you think, being clear about what you think are effective tactics, ignoring the burbling crowd and not eating bacon. All of these are useful habits.",
        "Author": "Seth Godin"
    },
    {
        "Id": 321,
        "Quote": "With writing a song, I\u0027ve always felt, right from the start, like I\u0027m scraping the bottom of the barrel. I don\u0027t ever feel there\u0027s a font of ideas to fall back on.",
        "Author": "Nick Cave"
    },
    {
        "Id": 322,
        "Quote": "When I\u0027m writing, I\u0027m thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don\u0027t translate onstage. No matter how potent the music, you lose the crowd. They want a hook; they want to sing your stuff back to you.",
        "Author": "Drake"
    },
    {
        "Id": 323,
        "Quote": "My life has two modes. One is sitting around writing and contemplating or building things. The other is execution mode. It takes a while to switch from one to the other.",
        "Author": "Trent Reznor"
    },
    {
        "Id": 324,
        "Quote": "I subscribe to about 200 blogs. I look for insights and good writing, and I look to get smarter.",
        "Author": "Evan Williams"
    },
    {
        "Id": 325,
        "Quote": "I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal education. Then I started telling stories.",
        "Author": "John Francis"
    },
    {
        "Id": 326,
        "Quote": "I love writing - it\u0027s the best. But I really hate collaboration.",
        "Author": "Norm MacDonald"
    },
    {
        "Id": 327,
        "Quote": "When things are going well, I can\u0027t write fast enough to keep up with my mind. Writing walks, speech runs and talk flies. Other times, though, it\u0027s like fishing.",
        "Author": "Dylan Moran"
    },
    {
        "Id": 328,
        "Quote": "I began working quite young, writing, growing, maturing, always striving to top myself - to make people laugh hard at things they know and believe deep in their hearts to be true.",
        "Author": "Bill Hicks"
    },
    {
        "Id": 329,
        "Quote": "I like writing about what to me are like questions that I have about myself and the human condition. I find quantum physics fascinating, so I like to write about that, and I like things that make me laugh.",
        "Author": "Kirsten Vangsness"
    },
    {
        "Id": 330,
        "Quote": "I\u0027ve had lots of people saying very nice things about the work. But I genuinely feel in the course of a writing career you\u0027re going to have people say very nice things and some not-so-nice things, and if at all possible you should try to ignore both.",
        "Author": "Kevin Barry"
    },
    {
        "Id": 331,
        "Quote": "I don\u0027t write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but that\u0027s not why I write.",
        "Author": "August Wilson"
    },
    {
        "Id": 332,
        "Quote": "One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein\u0027s four rules of writing, one of which was, \u0027You must finish what you write.\u0027 I never had any problem with the first one, \u0027You must write\u0027 - I was writing since I was a kid. But I never finished what writing.",
        "Author": "George R. R. Martin"
    },
    {
        "Id": 333,
        "Quote": "Fiction is lies; we\u0027re writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or fantasy or western mystery stories or so-called literary stories. All those things are essentially untrue. But it has to have a truth at the core of it.",
        "Author": "George R. R. Martin"
    },
    {
        "Id": 334,
        "Quote": "I have ADD or something. Even when I am doing something, it\u0027s me on the computer, I\u0027m painting and I\u0027m writing music. I have to rotate what I\u0027m doing every 15 minutes.",
        "Author": "Charlyne Yi"
    },
    {
        "Id": 335,
        "Quote": "I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join me there and sometimes she doesn\u0027t, but she always knows where I\u0027ll be. She doesn\u0027t need to go hunting in the taverns or on the beach or drag the boulevard looking for me.",
        "Author": "Tom Robbins"
    },
    {
        "Id": 336,
        "Quote": "In the end, I am quite normal. I don\u0027t have odd habits. I don\u0027t dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing. I don\u0027t talk about the anguish I suffer in creating. I do not have a fear of the blank page, writer\u0027s block, all those things that we hear about writers.",
        "Author": "Jose Saramago"
    },
    {
        "Id": 337,
        "Quote": "The most common thing I find is very brilliant, acute, young people who want to become writers but they are not writing. You know, they really badly want to write a book but they are not writing it. The only advice I can give them is to just write it, get to the end of it. And, you know, if it\u0027s not good enough, write another one.",
        "Author": "Teju Cole"
    },
    {
        "Id": 338,
        "Quote": "Some of my best experiences are with writer/directors. Guy Ritchie is one. I feel they have a clearer view of what they want to do. They haven\u0027t got to try and interpret someone\u0027s writing; it\u0027s all theirs. I really admire that.",
        "Author": "Jason Statham"
    },
    {
        "Id": 339,
        "Quote": "All we really have when we pretend to write about the future is the moment in which we are writing. That\u0027s why every imagined future obsoletes like an ice cream melting on the way back from the corner store.",
        "Author": "William Gibson"
    },
    {
        "Id": 340,
        "Quote": "Letters are something from you. It\u0027s a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.",
        "Author": "Keanu Reeves"
    },
    {
        "Id": 341,
        "Quote": "Writing a novel is a huge adventure; when it\u0027s going well it\u0027s more fun than fun. When it stutters to a halt put it aside. Go for a swim, go for a walk, take a week off. Don\u0027t panic or be afraid; you and your characters are in it together. Trust them to come to your rescue.",
        "Author": "Deborah Moggach"
    },
    {
        "Id": 342,
        "Quote": "Writing is incidental to my primary objective, which is spinning a good yarn. I view myself as a storyteller more than a writer. The story - and hence the extensive research that goes into each one of my books - is much more important than the words that I use to narrate it.",
        "Author": "Ashwin Sanghi"
    },
    {
        "Id": 343,
        "Quote": "My reputation for writing quickly and effortlessly notwithstanding, I am strongly in favor of intelligent, even fastidious revision, which is, or certainly should be, an art in itself.",
        "Author": "Joyce Carol Oates"
    },
    {
        "Id": 344,
        "Quote": "My own way of writing is very meditated and, despite my reputation, rather slow-moving. So I do spend a good deal of time contemplating endings. The final ending is usually arrived at simply by intuition.",
        "Author": "Joyce Carol Oates"
    },
    {
        "Id": 345,
        "Quote": "After preliminary research, I zero in on an idea, and then I spend at least four months exploring the topic and in plot-building. I jot down every single detail of the plot as bullet points per chapter, and only when the skeleton is complete do I start writing.",
        "Author": "Ashwin Sanghi"
    },
    {
        "Id": 346,
        "Quote": "Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling a story or writing about a fresco by Giotto or studying how a snail climbs up a wall.",
        "Author": "John Berger"
    },
    {
        "Id": 347,
        "Quote": "In the books I have written, I have created in my mind a universe. My kids say I have a village in my head and I live in that village, and it\u0027s true. When I start writing a book, characters from previous books reappear. All my emotions, my mind, my heart, my dreams, everything becomes connected with a new book, and nothing else really matters.",
        "Author": "Isabel Allende"
    },
    {
        "Id": 348,
        "Quote": "Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.",
        "Author": "Tom Waits"
    },
    {
        "Id": 349,
        "Quote": "To me, writing is a considered act. It\u0027s something which is a great labor of thought and consideration.",
        "Author": "Paul Theroux"
    },
    {
        "Id": 350,
        "Quote": "I\u0027m always conscious of what I\u0027m writing, conscious of what the actor may ask me. I have a defense for nearly every line in the song.",
        "Author": "Stephen Sondheim"
    },
    {
        "Id": 351,
        "Quote": "Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you\u0027ve gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.",
        "Author": "Mel Brooks"
    },
    {
        "Id": 352,
        "Quote": "When I first started writing songs and being very explicit, it was hard, but one of the main things people respond to in my writing is that \u0027just say it\u0027 attitude of my songs. There really is nothing personal or private; it\u0027s all universal, if you can just find the courage to be open about your life.",
        "Author": "Ani DiFranco"
    },
    {
        "Id": 353,
        "Quote": "When you find yourself on the Internet when you\u0027re supposed to be writing, you\u0027ve already lost. It\u0027s even beyond procrastination when you end up on the Internet.",
        "Author": "Noah Baumbach"
    },
    {
        "Id": 354,
        "Quote": "You can\u0027t write about history without writing about politics at some point. History is about movements of people. \u0027What is criminality and what is government\u0027 is a theme that runs through every history.",
        "Author": "David Mamet"
    },
    {
        "Id": 355,
        "Quote": "It must have been when I was 14 or 15 that I started tentatively writing songs and was able to convey an emotion and a lyric with what I wanted to say.",
        "Author": "Lorde"
    },
    {
        "Id": 356,
        "Quote": "An idyllic period of my existence was when I had a den attached to my home... a writing den, and no one had access to that unless they had their own special visa, applied for weeks in advance.",
        "Author": "Wole Soyinka"
    },
    {
        "Id": 357,
        "Quote": "Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.",
        "Author": "George Gershwin"
    },
    {
        "Id": 358,
        "Quote": "All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated; at least, it isn\u0027t that way in my work.",
        "Author": "George Gershwin"
    },
    {
        "Id": 359,
        "Quote": "I used to be a freelance journalist, so I had to write fast, but I always found writing nonfiction constraining. I like the freedom of fiction, where I get to invent everything, and tidy, conclusive endings are within my control.",
        "Author": "Michelle Gagnon"
    },
    {
        "Id": 360,
        "Quote": "My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a book. If I can throw away all my hair, then I have the freedom to trash any part of the book on the next rewrite.",
        "Author": "Chuck Palahniuk"
    },
    {
        "Id": 361,
        "Quote": "Keeping a habit, in the smallest way, protects and strengthens it. I write every day, even if it\u0027s just a sentence, to keep my habit of daily writing strong.",
        "Author": "Gretchen Rubin"
    },
    {
        "Id": 362,
        "Quote": "I enjoy all forms of writing, but playwrighting is what made me what I am. Not only working with the ghosts of Chekhov and Ibsen and Shakespeare, but what it is to be a playwright, to be interacting with human beings in the live theater and affect people on such a direct, emotional level.",
        "Author": "John Logan"
    },
    {
        "Id": 363,
        "Quote": "I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution - they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.",
        "Author": "Paulo Coelho"
    },
    {
        "Id": 364,
        "Quote": "I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad that I cannot write in my native Ilokano. History demanded this; if it isn\u0027t English I am using now, I would most probably be writing in Spanish like Rizal, or even German or Japanese.",
        "Author": "F. Sionil Jose"
    },
    {
        "Id": 365,
        "Quote": "One of the great lessons I learned about historical fiction from writing \u0027Loving Frank\u0027 is that you don\u0027t try to disguise what people did; my approach was to try to understand the characters and why they did what they did.",
        "Author": "Nancy Horan"
    },
    {
        "Id": 366,
        "Quote": "Although I sometimes enjoy writing from an adult\u0027s perspective, I feel dedicated to the coming of age story - that part of a young person\u0027s life where he must make a decision that will change his life forever. I still remember what it\u0027s like to be twelve years old.",
        "Author": "Kimberly Willis Holt"
    },
    {
        "Id": 367,
        "Quote": "I don\u0027t control my writing - it controls me.",
        "Author": "Ray Bradbury"
    },
    {
        "Id": 368,
        "Quote": "The piano has been my friend all my life; it has always comforted me. Writing songs and sitting down at the piano is not only a business, it\u0027s a hobby I enjoy.",
        "Author": "El DeBarge"
    },
    {
        "Id": 369,
        "Quote": "An intellectual\u0027s weapon is writing, but sometimes people react as if it were a firearm. A writer can do a lot to change the situation, but as far as I know, no dictatorship has fallen because of a sonnet.",
        "Author": "Mario Benedetti"
    },
    {
        "Id": 370,
        "Quote": "Finally, in my early 30s, I started writing fiction for the first time as an adult. That felt so scary, and I spent a few years feeling miserably \u0027behind\u0027 my high-achieving friends. But I persevered and obviously have no regrets.",
        "Author": "Julia Glass"
    },
    {
        "Id": 371,
        "Quote": "Inspiration comes from everything from the entire world, and it\u0027s hard to pinpoint one thing. I can trace one inspiration to the writing of 13th-century Zen master Dogen Zenji, who writes beautifully about time.",
        "Author": "Ruth Ozeki"
    },
    {
        "Id": 372,
        "Quote": "When I\u0027m writing a novel, which is what I like to write, I get up early, sit zazen, make a pot of green tea. I wear wrist cuffs to keep my wrists warm and minimize irritation from extended contact with the surface of my desk. I sit down and write.",
        "Author": "Ruth Ozeki"
    },
    {
        "Id": 373,
        "Quote": "We all are who we are. We\u0027re not necessarily good, and we\u0027re not necessarily bad. So much television, in the writing, is so one-dimensional, in that aspect, where you have your good guys and you have your bad guys.",
        "Author": "Kyle Schmid"
    },
    {
        "Id": 374,
        "Quote": "It is my writing dilemma. The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as a good story.",
        "Author": "John le Carre"
    },
    {
        "Id": 375,
        "Quote": "Writing a tribe is fun. They have their own language, their own slang; they repeat it, and it becomes part of the texture of the play. For a writer, that\u0027s thrilling. That\u0027s when my pen flies.",
        "Author": "Laura Wade"
    },
    {
        "Id": 376,
        "Quote": "The process of writing and directing drives you to such extremes that it\u0027s natural to feel an affinity with insanity. I approach that madness as something dangerous, and I\u0027m afraid, but also I want to go to it, to see what\u0027s there, to embrace it. I don\u0027t know why, but I\u0027m drawn.",
        "Author": "Dario Argento"
    },
    {
        "Id": 377,
        "Quote": "My writing philosophy is throwing spaghetti against the wall. That\u0027s how I take pictures, too. If I take 100, surely one will be good.",
        "Author": "Amanda Peet"
    },
    {
        "Id": 378,
        "Quote": "For me, writing for younger audiences and writing for adults uses two different halves of my brain.",
        "Author": "Sara Shepard"
    },
    {
        "Id": 379,
        "Quote": "I\u0027ve certainly been someone who has loved to mine the trials and tribulations of growing up in general, and the people who are in our lives, and I don\u0027t mind pulling from them and writing things down on my phone that my family says.",
        "Author": "Jim Rash"
    },
    {
        "Id": 380,
        "Quote": "I want to travel around the country and make my living playing music. I also try to behave in a way that I would appreciate as a music fan. That\u0027s how we conduct ourselves, be it in writing music or playing it live.",
        "Author": "Buzz Osborne"
    },
    {
        "Id": 381,
        "Quote": "I\u0027ve always had this interest in sibling relationships because I don\u0027t have any siblings. I\u0027m completely a product of the one-child policy in China, so I always kind of wished that I had an older brother or a younger brother or sister just to have that bond, so I find myself constantly writing about that relationship.",
        "Author": "Marie Lu"
    },
    {
        "Id": 382,
        "Quote": "Everyone seems to see bleakness and despair in my books. I don\u0027t read them that way. I see myself as writing comic books, books about ordinary people trying to live ordinary, dull, happy lives while the world is falling to pieces around them.",
        "Author": "J. M. Coetzee"
    },
    {
        "Id": 383,
        "Quote": "Art can\u0027t be taught; passion can\u0027t be taught; discipline can\u0027t be taught; but craft can be taught. And writing is both an art and a craft.",
        "Author": "Elizabeth George"
    },
    {
        "Id": 384,
        "Quote": "Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose feather in ink and writing. And yet we read those novels today, and if we\u0027re sensitive to them, we respond to them with an immediacy that is stronger than anything written today on a word processor.",
        "Author": "Walter Murch"
    },
    {
        "Id": 385,
        "Quote": "I think without writing I would feel completely useless.",
        "Author": "Sam Shepard"
    },
    {
        "Id": 386,
        "Quote": "I\u0027m a physicist and computer scientist by training. I worked in high tech for thirty years as everything from engineer to senior vice president - for many of those years, writing SF as a hobby - until, in 2004, I began writing full time.",
        "Author": "Edward M. Lerner"
    },
    {
        "Id": 387,
        "Quote": "I wasn\u0027t really a dark kid, but I was in my head a lot. I got good grades all through my 16 years of Catholic school, but I was always writing these weird - and, I have to say, really bad - stories, filled with murder.",
        "Author": "Karen Abbott"
    },
    {
        "Id": 388,
        "Quote": "I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys\u0027 books, but boys won\u0027t read girls\u0027 books. If you\u0027re writing for a girl, you\u0027ve got most of the audience on your side anyway.",
        "Author": "S. E. Hinton"
    },
    {
        "Id": 389,
        "Quote": "When I write, I feel that I\u0027m writing with my intellect. When I paint, I think it\u0027s some other force making me paint. I - as I wrote in my novel \u0027My Name is Red\u0027 - watch with amazement what my hand is doing on the paper, what kind of line, what kind of strange, beautiful thing it\u0027s doing in spite of my will, so to speak.",
        "Author": "Orhan Pamuk"
    },
    {
        "Id": 390,
        "Quote": "My rule of writing is that no one can do what you can do, so jealousy or competitiveness are pointless. I am always happy when one of my sisters has a book published that I get to read.",
        "Author": "Hallie Ephron"
    },
    {
        "Id": 391,
        "Quote": "The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it\u0027s a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.",
        "Author": "Dr. Seuss"
    },
    {
        "Id": 392,
        "Quote": "I\u0027m drawn to New England because that\u0027s where my roots are, and I miss it. I come from many generations of New Englanders, and so, in my writing, I\u0027ve been drawn back there to the landscape and the light and the type of personality that\u0027s revealed.",
        "Author": "Elizabeth Strout"
    },
    {
        "Id": 393,
        "Quote": "I am always thinking about writing music; my wife is constantly asking me: \u0027Is there any way you can turn off the music part of your brain for a minute?\u0027 but I really can\u0027t! It\u0027s my form of therapy.",
        "Author": "Kellin Quinn"
    },
    {
        "Id": 394,
        "Quote": "All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static.",
        "Author": "Siri Hustvedt"
    },
    {
        "Id": 395,
        "Quote": "Prose is like this big block - you write big paragraphs. I feel that when I\u0027m reading and writing, that a prose book is kind of monolithic. But a song is more like a feather or something.",
        "Author": "Bill Callahan"
    },
    {
        "Id": 396,
        "Quote": "A lot of ink is given over to mythologizing female friendships as curious, fragile relationships that are always intensely fraught. Stop reading writing that encourages this mythology.",
        "Author": "Roxane Gay"
    },
    {
        "Id": 397,
        "Quote": "I feel like part of getting better at writing is knowing where to find that inspiration. Right after something happens to me, the first thing I\u0027ll do is go write when those feelings are really, really fresh.",
        "Author": "Troye Sivan"
    },
    {
        "Id": 398,
        "Quote": "It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.",
        "Author": "Kurt Vonnegut"
    },
    {
        "Id": 399,
        "Quote": "Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.",
        "Author": "Octavio Paz"
    },
    {
        "Id": 400,
        "Quote": "I\u0027ve always had a little bit of darkness, and I\u0027ve always been someone who was grieving. I had kind of had a tumultuous upbringing living in an abusive home, so for me, writing has always been a point of catharsis.",
        "Author": "Mary Lambert"
    },
    {
        "Id": 401,
        "Quote": "Actually, I can\u0027t remember when I was not writing.",
        "Author": "Gore Vidal"
    },
    {
        "Id": 402,
        "Quote": "What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.",
        "Author": "George Bernard Shaw"
    },
    {
        "Id": 403,
        "Quote": "I don\u0027t like slapdash careless prose, and if I saw myself doing it, I would give up writing altogether.",
        "Author": "Ruth Rendell"
    },
    {
        "Id": 404,
        "Quote": "I had a high school English teacher who made me really work at writing. And once, when I got an assignment back, she\u0027d written: \u0027This is so good, Andrew. This should be published!\u0027 That made a big impression on me.",
        "Author": "Andrew Clements"
    },
    {
        "Id": 405,
        "Quote": "The point of essays is the point of writing anything. It\u0027s not to tell people what they already think or to give them more of what they already believe; it\u0027s to challenge people, and it\u0027s to suggest alternate ways of thinking about things.",
        "Author": "Meghan Daum"
    },
    {
        "Id": 406,
        "Quote": "Mostly, research is much more fun than the actual writing.",
        "Author": "Michelle Paver"
    },
    {
        "Id": 407,
        "Quote": "Writing a mystery is like drawing a picture and then cutting it into little pieces that you offer to your readers one piece at a time, thus allowing them the chance to put the jigsaw puzzle together by the end of the book.",
        "Author": "Ashwin Sanghi"
    },
    {
        "Id": 408,
        "Quote": "Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.",
        "Author": "Ernest Hemingway"
    },
    {
        "Id": 409,
        "Quote": "I love long sentences. My big heroes of fiction writing are Henry James and Proust - people who recognise that life doesn\u0027t consist of declarative statements, but rather modifications, qualifications and feelings.",
        "Author": "John Burnside"
    },
    {
        "Id": 410,
        "Quote": "My writing process is a mix of research, personal experiences, washing the dishes, raising kids while thinking - then writing.",
        "Author": "Jean Craighead George"
    },
    {
        "Id": 411,
        "Quote": "I am now writing a book called \u0027Far Enough,\u0027 very loosely based on my childhood. This is difficult because it forces me to remember people I loved who are gone.",
        "Author": "Nancy Farmer"
    },
    {
        "Id": 412,
        "Quote": "I\u0027ve always had rock star envy. Unfortunately, writing is a pedestrian, tame occupation done while sitting in coffee-stained pajamas in front of a computer rather than prowling around a huge stage in sweaty leather pants, so I have to get my kicks vicariously.",
        "Author": "Kate Christensen"
    },
    {
        "Id": 413,
        "Quote": "Show, don\u0027t tell, is a mantra repeated by tutors of creative writing courses the world over. As advice for amateurs, it is sound and helps avoid character profiling, unactivated scenes, and broken narrative frames.",
        "Author": "Sarah Hall"
    },
    {
        "Id": 414,
        "Quote": "For me, most of the anxiety and difficulty of writing takes place in the act of not writing. It\u0027s the procrastination, the thinking about writing that\u0027s difficult.",
        "Author": "Adam Mansbach"
    },
    {
        "Id": 415,
        "Quote": "I wrote small stories here and there, then bigger ones. Some were even written for money. I signed up for a writing class and snuck my first assignment on a yellow legal pad in a partner\u0027s office while he read through my memo.",
        "Author": "Rachel Sklar"
    },
    {
        "Id": 416,
        "Quote": "You write the way you think about the world. My motto in times of trouble - and I\u0027m speaking of life, not writing - is \u0027no humor too black.\u0027",
        "Author": "Elizabeth McCracken"
    },
    {
        "Id": 417,
        "Quote": "I write every day. Most weekdays, I write about ten hours a day. That doesn\u0027t mean eight hours of surfing the Net or watching videos on YouTube. I park my butt in a chair and write... I learned that writer\u0027s block is a myth created by people who don\u0027t have, or understand, a writing process.",
        "Author": "Jonathan Maberry"
    },
    {
        "Id": 418,
        "Quote": "I love writing picture books and story books because of the exciting, visual life that artists and illustrators give to them. And most of all, I love writing novels because of the inner, emotional journeys that they take me on. Hopefully, the reader comes with me!",
        "Author": "Berlie Doherty"
    },
    {
        "Id": 419,
        "Quote": "For years I\u0027ve wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I\u0027ve only got a tourist\u0027s knowledge of it. I thought that if I disobeyed that basic rule of writing - write about what you know - I\u0027d write a thin and inauthentic book.",
        "Author": "Kate Grenville"
    },
    {
        "Id": 420,
        "Quote": "My breakthrough was when I began to write during my commute, at first taking notes on my Palm Pilot, and then moving on to writing full prose on the tiny QWERTY keyboard of my iPaq smartphone. I got so fast that I was averaging 400 words during the 35 minutes or so I spent on the subway each way, or 800 words round trip.",
        "Author": "Peter V. Brett"
    },
    {
        "Id": 421,
        "Quote": "I\u0027m constantly coming up with new strategies for getting to the mental place where writing is so joyous and playful that I almost can\u0027t help putting the words down.",
        "Author": "Nalo Hopkinson"
    },
    {
        "Id": 422,
        "Quote": "I always go in very emotionally when I\u0027m doing music. Sad or happy, I\u0027m always into it. I have a hard time writing for other people, writing with someone else in mind.",
        "Author": "Erik Hassle"
    },
    {
        "Id": 423,
        "Quote": "If I were to try and find a unifying emotion that kept me calm and focused while I was dancing or writing or solving a math problem, I think the one unifying thing about all those that keeps my interest is creativity.",
        "Author": "Catherine Asaro"
    },
    {
        "Id": 424,
        "Quote": "When a place comes across vividly in a novel, it\u0027s often compared to a character. I can remember writing teachers who encouraged me to treat setting as if it were a character, to give it three dimensions, to make it come alive, jump off the page.",
        "Author": "Kaui Hart Hemmings"
    },
    {
        "Id": 425,
        "Quote": "Read. Read. Read. Read many genres. Read good writing. Read bad writing and figure out the difference. Learn the craft of writing.",
        "Author": "Carol Berg"
    },
    {
        "Id": 426,
        "Quote": "Pace, like everything else in writing, involves a trade-off. If you\u0027re not offering the reader a lot of action to keep her interested, you must offer something else in its stead. Slow pace is ideal for complex character development, detailed description, and nuances of style.",
        "Author": "Nancy Kress"
    },
    {
        "Id": 427,
        "Quote": "Our job as friends, mentors, parents, and writing coaches is not to write anyone\u0027s college essay. That\u0027s cheating. Plus, it sends a discouraging message to the teenager that he or she can\u0027t be trusted with this important assignment. Trust the student to write the essay, but verify that it gets done. Gentle editing and proofreading are allowed.",
        "Author": "Kate Klise"
    },
    {
        "Id": 428,
        "Quote": "Since I make my living as a literary journalist, not a book scout, I spend inordinate amounts of time either reading or writing.",
        "Author": "Michael Dirda"
    },
    {
        "Id": 429,
        "Quote": "There\u0027s an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing music, into searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don\u0027t exist.",
        "Author": "David Bowie"
    },
    {
        "Id": 430,
        "Quote": "Growing up a lonely only child prepared me for the years of solitude spent as a writer; years spent in the company of people who don\u0027t exist, imaginary people you have conversations with. It\u0027s a paid form of madness, this writing stuff.",
        "Author": "Debi Gliori"
    },
    {
        "Id": 431,
        "Quote": "When I was writing \u0027Bad Behavior,\u0027 I was very, very quiet. I would just sit there and listen to people. And if I was out in public, I was usually quiet, and people tended to assume I was stupid because I was a young, pretty girl who\u0027s quiet.",
        "Author": "Mary Gaitskill"
    },
    {
        "Id": 432,
        "Quote": "All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda.",
        "Author": "W. E. B. Du Bois"
    },
    {
        "Id": 433,
        "Quote": "There are worlds and more worlds below them, and there are a hundred thousand skies over them. No one has been able to find the limits and boundaries of God. If there be any account of God, then alone the mortal can write the same; but God\u0027s account does not finish, and the mortal himself dies while still writing.",
        "Author": "Guru Nanak"
    },
    {
        "Id": 434,
        "Quote": "When I\u0027m writing the poem, I feel like I have to close my eyes. I don\u0027t mean literally, but you invite a kind of blindness, and that\u0027s the birth of the poem.",
        "Author": "Eileen Myles"
    },
    {
        "Id": 435,
        "Quote": "I definitely have a preference for writing anti-heroes and bad guys, especially when they have motivations that the average \u0027good\u0027 person can understand and get behind.",
        "Author": "Cullen Bunn"
    },
    {
        "Id": 436,
        "Quote": "Everything can be going well, but if I\u0027m not writing, I\u0027m not happy. When I\u0027m writing well, I\u0027m like a different person.",
        "Author": "Aaron Sorkin"
    },
    {
        "Id": 437,
        "Quote": "I used to think there was something dirty about being paid for something which is a sacred thing to do. I can\u0027t disconnect the act of writing music from the act of prayer. If anyone tries to stop me working, it feels like someone is trying to stop me from taking communion.",
        "Author": "John Tavener"
    },
    {
        "Id": 438,
        "Quote": "I always, by an involuntary act of defensiveness, return to my everyday self: so, I find, have I withdrawn from writing about experiences which have most closely concerned and disturbed me. I have been deflected by my own reticence.",
        "Author": "Ngaio Marsh"
    },
    {
        "Id": 439,
        "Quote": "My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we\u0027re as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.",
        "Author": "Nancy Garden"
    },
    {
        "Id": 440,
        "Quote": "I am mad for nature writing. I want to get inside the head of every creature in the world, even ants.",
        "Author": "T. C. Boyle"
    },
    {
        "Id": 441,
        "Quote": "I don\u0027t think I\u0027ve ever actually written from inspiration, actually had a song just go, \u0027Bing!\u0027 I only recall that happening to me twice - once was with \u0027Terrapin\u0027 and the other was \u0027Wharf Rat.\u0027 I mean, that\u0027s twice in a lifetime of writing!",
        "Author": "Jerry Garcia"
    },
    {
        "Id": 442,
        "Quote": "When children draw or do rudimentary painting, the whole human being develops an interest in what is being done. This is why we should allow writing to develop from drawing.",
        "Author": "Rudolf Steiner"
    },
    {
        "Id": 443,
        "Quote": "I am a writer... I am a genius of a writer; I have it in me. I am writing the best poems of my life; they will make my name.",
        "Author": "Sylvia Plath"
    },
    {
        "Id": 444,
        "Quote": "When I\u0027m writing fiction, I read nonfiction or biographies. Now I\u0027m watching very old movies or old foreign films. I don\u0027t immerse myself in whatever\u0027s going on in whatever area I\u0027m working in.",
        "Author": "Whit Stillman"
    },
    {
        "Id": 445,
        "Quote": "Writing, for me, was a feat of self-preservation. If I did not do it, I would die. So I did it. Obstinacy, not talent, saved my life.",
        "Author": "Philip Roth"
    },
    {
        "Id": 446,
        "Quote": "I rarely, if ever, had another book in mind while I was writing the previous book. Each book starts from ashes, really.",
        "Author": "Philip Roth"
    },
    {
        "Id": 447,
        "Quote": "No matter what I\u0027m doing for myself or someone else, I\u0027m constantly writing and working on other people\u0027s albums.",
        "Author": "Missy Elliott"
    },
    {
        "Id": 448,
        "Quote": "I just feel very lucky to be able to write fiction because I think, otherwise, I would have had to spend a fortune on a psychiatrist - and I still wouldn\u0027t get 1/100th of what I get writing fiction.",
        "Author": "Amy Tan"
    },
    {
        "Id": 449,
        "Quote": "In history class, I wrote a poem, \u0027The Royalists and the Roundheads.\u0027 I would write poems about driftwood in art class and little stories about the sun, moon, and stars in science class. Since not many kids were writing in class, I got away with it.",
        "Author": "Judith Viorst"
    },
    {
        "Id": 450,
        "Quote": "The best I can do is, it\u0027s like a \u0027ding!\u0027 You\u0027re writing, and then something starts falling into place, and you hear or feel a ding. And it just feels - it\u0027s going to be okay.",
        "Author": "Judith Viorst"
    },
    {
        "Id": 451,
        "Quote": "All along, I\u0027ve been writing about our fears, our longings, our fantasies, our ambivalences. When I decided to study psychoanalysis, I did it because I wanted to understand the psychodynamics of it all. Though far from perfect, psychoanalysis offered me a huge, wonderful window on all that.",
        "Author": "Judith Viorst"
    },
    {
        "Id": 452,
        "Quote": "Kids are always writing me: \u0027I had a bad day too.\u0027 \u0027I got gum in my hair.\u0027 And the kids also write to me to pass on advice to Alexander. My favorite one of those being, \u0027The next time you have a bad day, blame your brothers.\u0027 I didn\u0027t expect this. It\u0027s certainly the most successful of my books.",
        "Author": "Judith Viorst"
    },
    {
        "Id": 453,
        "Quote": "Writers are always writing about infidelity. It\u0027s so dramatic. The wickedness of it, the secrecy, the complications, the finding that you thought you were one person but you\u0027re also this other person. The innocent life and the guilty life. My God, it\u0027s just full of stuff for a writer. I doubt it will ever go out of fashion.",
        "Author": "Alice Munro"
    },
    {
        "Id": 454,
        "Quote": "What\u0027s bad, boring, and barely read all over? Business writing.",
        "Author": "Jason Fried"
    },
    {
        "Id": 455,
        "Quote": "When you\u0027re writing about difficult things and darker issues, it\u0027s nice to offer some sort of light at the end of the tunnel. Some sense of hope. Sometimes, the best way to do that is by offering it in the music, so that you can dance your way out of the darkness.",
        "Author": "Jens Lekman"
    },
    {
        "Id": 456,
        "Quote": "When it\u0027s your words, and then you watch it connect with an audience as the artist, I kinda reflect back on the writing process and why those words were important to me. And to watch people sing it back, I mean, that kinda means everything because that\u0027s the whole point for me - performance and songwriting - is to connect with people.",
        "Author": "Brett Young"
    },
    {
        "Id": 457,
        "Quote": "If the day\u0027s writing has been particularly good or particularly bad, a glass of scotch will be involved.",
        "Author": "Stephen J. Dubner"
    },
    {
        "Id": 458,
        "Quote": "There is a fluency and an ease with which true mastery and expertise always expresses itself, whether it be in writing, whether it be in a mathematical proof, whether it be in a dance that you see on stage, really in every domain. But I think the question is, you know, where does that fluency and mastery come from?",
        "Author": "Angela Duckworth"
    },
    {
        "Id": 459,
        "Quote": "Writing is like sewing together what I call these \u0027buttons,\u0027 these bits and pieces.",
        "Author": "Sandra Cisneros"
    },
    {
        "Id": 460,
        "Quote": "I have a lot of good role models in my family for things off the court - like my older sister, who\u0027s a lawyer. I don\u0027t like writing papers, but she\u0027s helped me a lot. It\u0027s nice to have an art and business background because they tie together perfectly.",
        "Author": "Venus Williams"
    },
    {
        "Id": 461,
        "Quote": "If you want to be a writer, don\u0027t worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many different writers as you can. Soak up the styles.",
        "Author": "R. L. Stine"
    },
    {
        "Id": 462,
        "Quote": "Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.",
        "Author": "Don Marquis"
    },
    {
        "Id": 463,
        "Quote": "Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.",
        "Author": "Octavia Butler"
    },
    {
        "Id": 464,
        "Quote": "The studios don\u0027t seem to foster good writing. They\u0027re not so interested in that, but they\u0027re more interested in what worked most recently. They\u0027re definitely very serious about making money, and that\u0027s not a wrong thing, but you don\u0027t have to make money the same way all the time.",
        "Author": "Bill Murray"
    },
    {
        "Id": 465,
        "Quote": "The story was such that I couldn\u0027t make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn\u0027t want to. So, it isn\u0027t the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I\u0027m pleased with it anyway.",
        "Author": "Jack Vance"
    },
    {
        "Id": 466,
        "Quote": "I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I\u0027d love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true.",
        "Author": "Luigi Pirandello"
    },
    {
        "Id": 467,
        "Quote": "Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.",
        "Author": "Nick Cave"
    },
    {
        "Id": 468,
        "Quote": "I\u0027ve loved singing since forever. Whether it was with my sisters while cleaning the kitchen, putting shows on for my stuffed animals, writing songs about my stuffed animals, starting an a capella group with my cousins while on vacation, or awkwardly singing along to karaoke tracks alone in my bedroom - singing always found a way into my life.",
        "Author": "Kina Grannis"
    },
    {
        "Id": 469,
        "Quote": "The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing.",
        "Author": "Marjane Satrapi"
    },
    {
        "Id": 470,
        "Quote": "Writing is a very focused form of meditation. Just as good as sitting in a lotus position.",
        "Author": "Alan Moore"
    },
    {
        "Id": 471,
        "Quote": "My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.",
        "Author": "Ray Bradbury"
    },
    {
        "Id": 472,
        "Quote": "The stories are there first, and they come from my experiences wandering around in the world. They will resonate into bigger things, forces sweeping the planet, themes and archetypes, but I\u0027m not smart enough to have lucid integration of all that in my head as I\u0027m writing.",
        "Author": "Bob Shacochis"
    },
    {
        "Id": 473,
        "Quote": "A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I\u0027m writing about New York.",
        "Author": "Lana Del Rey"
    },
    {
        "Id": 474,
        "Quote": "My goal would be to find a big, fat subject that would occupy me to the end of my life, and when I finish it, I\u0027ll die. What\u0027s agony is starting; I hate starting them. I just want to keep writing now and end when it ends.",
        "Author": "Philip Roth"
    },
    {
        "Id": 475,
        "Quote": "When people come to Twitter and they want to express something in the world, the technology fades away. It\u0027s them writing a simple message and them knowing that people are going to see it.",
        "Author": "Jack Dorsey"
    },
    {
        "Id": 476,
        "Quote": "At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even objects that relate to the characters or the world I\u0027m creating.",
        "Author": "Kami Garcia"
    },
    {
        "Id": 477,
        "Quote": "If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don\u0027t marry and have kids, and above all, don\u0027t die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.",
        "Author": "Ursula K. Le Guin"
    },
    {
        "Id": 478,
        "Quote": "I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days.",
        "Author": "Kapil Sibal"
    },
    {
        "Id": 479,
        "Quote": "At least in my case, a very simple, regular, happy life makes for better writing.",
        "Author": "Lauren Groff"
    },
    {
        "Id": 480,
        "Quote": "By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it\u0027s possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas.",
        "Author": "Nicholas Sparks"
    },
    {
        "Id": 481,
        "Quote": "I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it\u0027s done in handwriting.",
        "Author": "Nelson DeMille"
    },
    {
        "Id": 482,
        "Quote": "Write every day; never give up; it\u0027s supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and reward in the act of writing, because you can\u0027t look for praise from editors, readers, or critics. In other words, tips that are much easier to give than to take.",
        "Author": "J. R. Moehringer"
    },
    {
        "Id": 483,
        "Quote": "When I went to get my master\u0027s in creative writing at San Francisco State after Grinnell, I joined the moribund remnants of the Actor\u0027s Workshop, until I saw Kay Hayward and Sandy Archer in the San Francisco Mime Troupe and drove down that day to audition. The rest is history.",
        "Author": "Peter Coyote"
    },
    {
        "Id": 484,
        "Quote": "When writing, I split my time between my chambers and my satellite office: my neighborhood Chick-fil-A. It offers the word-nerd trifecta: I bring Bose headphones; they provide Wi-Fi and waffle fries.",
        "Author": "Don Willett"
    },
    {
        "Id": 485,
        "Quote": "Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.",
        "Author": "Anne Morrow Lindbergh"
    },
    {
        "Id": 486,
        "Quote": "I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts.",
        "Author": "Shirley Jackson"
    },
    {
        "Id": 487,
        "Quote": "I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them.",
        "Author": "Delta Goodrem"
    },
    {
        "Id": 488,
        "Quote": "You know, the process of making a documentary is one of discovery, and like writing a story, you follow a lead and that leads you to something else and then by the time you finish, the story is nothing like you expected.",
        "Author": "William Shatner"
    },
    {
        "Id": 489,
        "Quote": "With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.",
        "Author": "Walter Dean Myers"
    },
    {
        "Id": 490,
        "Quote": "If you\u0027re gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of dialogue or sentiment, then you\u0027re sort of writing a novel, really. But rock lyrics are not really known for their sophistication.",
        "Author": "Ian Anderson"
    },
    {
        "Id": 491,
        "Quote": "Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death.",
        "Author": "Aaron Sorkin"
    },
    {
        "Id": 492,
        "Quote": "\u0027Flaubert\u0027s Parrot\u0027 is an amphibious book in which what appears to be a personal essay about Flaubertian writing is gradually, delicately transformed into an extremely sad novel in which the differences between character, author, and narrator are less clear than they appear at first glance.",
        "Author": "Alvaro Enrigue"
    },
    {
        "Id": 493,
        "Quote": "Writing about joyful experiences for just three days can improve people\u0027s moods and decrease their visits to health centers a full three months later.",
        "Author": "Sheryl Sandberg"
    },
    {
        "Id": 494,
        "Quote": "I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.",
        "Author": "Venerable Bede"
    },
    {
        "Id": 495,
        "Quote": "The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.",
        "Author": "Susan Sontag"
    },
    {
        "Id": 496,
        "Quote": "Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it\u0027s right, it\u0027s easy. It\u0027s the other way round, too. If it\u0027s slovenly written, then it\u0027s hard to read. It doesn\u0027t give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.",
        "Author": "Maya Angelou"
    },
    {
        "Id": 497,
        "Quote": "I have all these revelations as I\u0027m writing. Each song is like a chapter of my diary.",
        "Author": "Kid Cudi"
    },
    {
        "Id": 498,
        "Quote": "I\u0027m not writing just about melancholy stuff anymore, I made a point to cover a wide range of emotions.",
        "Author": "Chantal Kreviazuk"
    },
    {
        "Id": 499,
        "Quote": "Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It\u0027s neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.",
        "Author": "Francesca Lia Block"
    },
    {
        "Id": 500,
        "Quote": "I think either you\u0027re creative or you\u0027re not. In general, I don\u0027t think you need to be in pain to actually be creative unless you\u0027re writing love songs. Then you might need to have some ups and downs within your emotions to start to capture that.",
        "Author": "Curtis Jackson"
    },
    {
        "Id": 501,
        "Quote": "I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.",
        "Author": "James A. Michener"
    },
    {
        "Id": 502,
        "Quote": "Every writer I know has trouble writing.",
        "Author": "Joseph Heller"
    },
    {
        "Id": 503,
        "Quote": "A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.",
        "Author": "Thomas Mann"
    },
    {
        "Id": 504,
        "Quote": "The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.",
        "Author": "Eldridge Cleaver"
    },
    {
        "Id": 505,
        "Quote": "Artists don\u0027t talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it\u0027s stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.",
        "Author": "Paddy Chayefsky"
    },
    {
        "Id": 506,
        "Quote": "There\u0027s no such thing as perfect writing, just like there\u0027s no such thing as perfect despair.",
        "Author": "Haruki Murakami"
    },
    {
        "Id": 507,
        "Quote": "Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.",
        "Author": "Jack Prelutsky"
    },
    {
        "Id": 508,
        "Quote": "I don\u0027t really need to stand out, there\u0027s room for everyone. Although I haven\u0027t built a niche yet, I\u0027m just writing love songs.",
        "Author": "Adele"
    },
    {
        "Id": 509,
        "Quote": "Writing is thought crystalized on a piece of paper, which can then be reviewed.",
        "Author": "Tim Ferriss"
    },
    {
        "Id": 510,
        "Quote": "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 into a songwriter. My writing has always come from that feeling of infatuation.",
        "Author": "Ellie Goulding"
    },
    {
        "Id": 511,
        "Quote": "I love, love writing about Los Angeles. I love exploring every part of it. And I find, rather than a burden, it\u0027s actually one of the most enjoyable parts of the writing process for me. I love everything about L.A. Okay, not the traffic. But I love the way it looks. I love the geography. I love the diversity.",
        "Author": "Robert Crais"
    },
    {
        "Id": 512,
        "Quote": "To me, obstacles in life build character. You have to be able to overcome adversity in order to succeed and appreciate the simple things life has to offer... that\u0027s where most of my inspiration for writing and singing comes from.",
        "Author": "Elliott Yamin"
    },
    {
        "Id": 513,
        "Quote": "I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn\u0027t have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.",
        "Author": "E. B. White"
    },
    {
        "Id": 514,
        "Quote": "For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.",
        "Author": "Alfred Nobel"
    },
    {
        "Id": 515,
        "Quote": "There\u0027s sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy.",
        "Author": "T. J. Miller"
    },
    {
        "Id": 516,
        "Quote": "Often I have the impression that I am writing on paper that is already browning in the licks of the flames.",
        "Author": "Ernst Junger"
    },
    {
        "Id": 517,
        "Quote": "My writing often contains souvenirs of the day - a song I heard, a bird I saw - which I then put into the novel.",
        "Author": "Amy Tan"
    },
    {
        "Id": 518,
        "Quote": "I like writing, but I write for self-improvement more than I do for money.",
        "Author": "Thomas Steinbeck"
    },
    {
        "Id": 519,
        "Quote": "You\u0027re always going to write and draw inspiration from things that you\u0027re feeling, things that you\u0027ve felt. It\u0027s kind of impossible not to unless you\u0027re writing a song and there\u0027s an exact scenario that you\u0027re trying to write a song for.",
        "Author": "Harry Styles"
    },
    {
        "Id": 520,
        "Quote": "I am basically analytical, not creative; my writing is simply a creative way of handling analysis.",
        "Author": "Philip K. Dick"
    },
    {
        "Id": 521,
        "Quote": "For \u0027The Big Wander,\u0027 I probably had ten different outlines before I made myself start writing. I would sleep on each one, thinking it was wonderful, but I would always awake perceiving some flaw.",
        "Author": "Will Hobbs"
    },
    {
        "Id": 522,
        "Quote": "My life is ruled by four W\u0027s: my writing, my work, my wife, and my whisky. Not necessarily in that order.",
        "Author": "Ashwin Sanghi"
    },
    {
        "Id": 523,
        "Quote": "I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I\u0027ll probably... drop writing children\u0027s books and become a political cartoonist again.",
        "Author": "Dr. Seuss"
    },
    {
        "Id": 524,
        "Quote": "I always joke that my kids\u0027 favorite holiday is Father\u0027s Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It\u0027s my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.",
        "Author": "Wayne Dyer"
    },
    {
        "Id": 525,
        "Quote": "I really love writing, but I am very easily distracted: my two cats fighting, a rainbow, a TV show... I have to use every trick to keep myself at the computer.",
        "Author": "K. A. Applegate"
    },
    {
        "Id": 526,
        "Quote": "Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, \u0027Don\u0027t try.\u0027 That fits the writing, too. I don\u0027t try; I just type.",
        "Author": "Charles Bukowski"
    },
    {
        "Id": 527,
        "Quote": "It would be so simple to allow children, when tired of sitting, to rise, and when tired of writing, to desist, and then their bones would not be twisted.",
        "Author": "Maria Montessori"
    },
    {
        "Id": 528,
        "Quote": "Isn\u0027t that what writing is about? The constant attempt to understand the world?",
        "Author": "Isobelle Carmody"
    },
    {
        "Id": 529,
        "Quote": "One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer.",
        "Author": "John Green"
    },
    {
        "Id": 530,
        "Quote": "I was enjoying myself writing, because I don\u0027t know what\u0027s going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don\u0027t know at all what you\u0027re going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you\u0027re a kid and you\u0027re reading stories.",
        "Author": "Haruki Murakami"
    },
    {
        "Id": 531,
        "Quote": "The process of writing is like creating a game of dominoes: The first domino creates the second incident, and so forth until the end.",
        "Author": "Asghar Farhadi"
    },
    {
        "Id": 532,
        "Quote": "Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you\u0027re doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.",
        "Author": "E. L. Doctorow"
    },
    {
        "Id": 533,
        "Quote": "My mind wanders terribly. I\u0027m not wholly annoyed by my daydreaming as it has been immense use to me as regards imaginative thought, but it doesn\u0027t help when it comes to concentration. And writing needs concentration - lots of it.",
        "Author": "Jasper Fforde"
    },
    {
        "Id": 534,
        "Quote": "When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn\u0027t exist, and we didn\u0027t need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.",
        "Author": "Al Franken"
    },
    {
        "Id": 535,
        "Quote": "Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.",
        "Author": "A. P. J. Abdul Kalam"
    },
    {
        "Id": 536,
        "Quote": "Many writers are afraid of writing something bad, so they don\u0027t try or give up when their efforts don\u0027t lead to a masterpiece right away. If you work at it, you will improve.",
        "Author": "Lauren Tarshis"
    },
    {
        "Id": 537,
        "Quote": "I just love storytelling. I write music to tell stories. So when I\u0027m done writing a song, I take it and go, \u0027Okay. How can I interpret these lyrics differently?\u0027 I love taking lyrics that were so close to me at a certain point in my life and then revamping them. I always want to take things to the next level.",
        "Author": "Hayley Kiyoko"
    },
    {
        "Id": 538,
        "Quote": "I think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and singing.",
        "Author": "David Bowie"
    },
    {
        "Id": 539,
        "Quote": "Since my woman\u0027s world is perceived greatly through the emotions and the senses, I treat it that way in my writing - and am often overweighted with heavy descriptive passages and a kaleidoscope of similes.",
        "Author": "Sylvia Plath"
    },
    {
        "Id": 540,
        "Quote": "The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.",
        "Author": "Richard Harding Davis"
    },
    {
        "Id": 541,
        "Quote": "I\u0027m writing an unauthorized autobiography.",
        "Author": "Steven Wright"
    },
    {
        "Id": 542,
        "Quote": "Easy reading is damn hard writing.",
        "Author": "Nathaniel Hawthorne"
    },
    {
        "Id": 543,
        "Quote": "Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer\u0027s own life.",
        "Author": "Eudora Welty"
    },
    {
        "Id": 544,
        "Quote": "Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.",
        "Author": "Robert Frost"
    },
    {
        "Id": 545,
        "Quote": "I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.",
        "Author": "Ernest Hemingway"
    },
    {
        "Id": 546,
        "Quote": "There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.",
        "Author": "Clarence Day"
    },
    {
        "Id": 547,
        "Quote": "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.",
        "Author": "Isadora Duncan"
    },
    {
        "Id": 548,
        "Quote": "Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.",
        "Author": "Samuel Beckett"
    },
    {
        "Id": 549,
        "Quote": "Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.",
        "Author": "Alice Walker"
    },
    {
        "Id": 550,
        "Quote": "The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.",
        "Author": "Norman Mailer"
    },
    {
        "Id": 551,
        "Quote": "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, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.",
        "Author": "Graham Greene"
    },
    {
        "Id": 552,
        "Quote": "You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.",
        "Author": "Tim Cahill"
    },
    {
        "Id": 553,
        "Quote": "When I started writing a business column 15 years ago, I knew I\u0027d found the perfect job for myself. As a columnist I could pick my own topic, do my own analysis, say what I wanted to say and attribute it to myself. Best of all, I could write in my own voice.",
        "Author": "Allan Sloan"
    },
    {
        "Id": 554,
        "Quote": "I don\u0027t think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs don\u0027t come from the surface; they come from the deep down. The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart.",
        "Author": "Judy Collins"
    },
    {
        "Id": 555,
        "Quote": "I remember being out here at the Sunset Marquis, and whoever knocked on the door, I would take that picture that I was writing and I would put that in the typewriter, so when I had the meeting, they would say: \u0027Oh, you\u0027re working on it right now?\u0027",
        "Author": "John Sayles"
    },
    {
        "Id": 556,
        "Quote": "And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It\u0027s so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they\u0027d rather clean the toilet than do the writing.",
        "Author": "Octavia Butler"
    },
    {
        "Id": 557,
        "Quote": "Most of us don\u0027t have to worry about being shot if we poke our noses outside. So we are comfortable, but the people I\u0027m writing about are definitely not comfortable, and being shot while they\u0027re still inside is a good possibility.",
        "Author": "Octavia Butler"
    },
    {
        "Id": 558,
        "Quote": "I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer\u0027s creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen.",
        "Author": "Laura Hillenbrand"
    },
    {
        "Id": 559,
        "Quote": "The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage.",
        "Author": "Andrzej Wajda"
    },
    {
        "Id": 560,
        "Quote": "Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.",
        "Author": "Quentin Tarantino"
    },
    {
        "Id": 561,
        "Quote": "Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.",
        "Author": "John Updike"
    },
    {
        "Id": 562,
        "Quote": "Substitute \u0027damn\u0027 every time you\u0027re inclined to write \u0027very\u0027; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.",
        "Author": "Mark Twain"
    },
    {
        "Id": 563,
        "Quote": "That isn\u0027t writing at all, it\u0027s typing.",
        "Author": "Truman Capote"
    },
    {
        "Id": 564,
        "Quote": "Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That\u0027s what writing is all about.",
        "Author": "Wislawa Szymborska"
    },
    {
        "Id": 565,
        "Quote": "If you\u0027re actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you\u0027ll find that all sorts of interesting things will bubble up to the surface.",
        "Author": "Emma Thompson"
    },
    {
        "Id": 566,
        "Quote": "Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.",
        "Author": "Stephen King"
    },
    {
        "Id": 567,
        "Quote": "For me, it\u0027s writing a book and telling people about this story.",
        "Author": "Rebecca Skloot"
    },
    {
        "Id": 568,
        "Quote": "When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn\u0027t feel laboring, that\u0027s usually a good sign for me.",
        "Author": "David E. Kelley"
    },
    {
        "Id": 569,
        "Quote": "I\u0027d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.",
        "Author": "Paulo Coelho"
    },
    {
        "Id": 570,
        "Quote": "You can\u0027t build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened people are running around with edged weaponry, there are deaths. Stupid deaths, usually. I\u0027m not writing \u0027The A-Team\u0027 - if there\u0027s a fight going on, people will get hurt. Not letting this happen would be a betrayal.",
        "Author": "Terry Pratchett"
    },
    {
        "Id": 571,
        "Quote": "Once I\u0027ve written something it does tend to run away from me. I don\u0027t seem to have any part of it - it\u0027s no longer my piece of writing.",
        "Author": "David Bowie"
    },
    {
        "Id": 572,
        "Quote": "I feel like when I\u0027m on stage, when I\u0027m writing songs, singing songs, I\u0027m in the studio, I\u0027m shooting videos, I kind of get to become this character, and I can make that whatever I want to make that.",
        "Author": "Carrie Underwood"
    },
    {
        "Id": 573,
        "Quote": "\u0027Hound Dog\u0027 took like twelve minutes. That\u0027s not a complicated piece of work. But the rhyme scheme was difficult. Also the metric structure of the music was not easy. \u0027Kansas City\u0027 was maybe eight minutes, if that. Writing the early blues was spontaneous. You can hear the energy in the work.",
        "Author": "Jerry Leiber"
    },
    {
        "Id": 574,
        "Quote": "I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn\u0027t think I\u0027d have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn\u0027t know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.",
        "Author": "Lana Del Rey"
    },
    {
        "Id": 575,
        "Quote": "Narrative becomes the way you make sense of chaos. That\u0027s how you focus the world. It\u0027s the only reason you should ever try this writing job.",
        "Author": "Dennis Lehane"
    },
    {
        "Id": 576,
        "Quote": "Like any kind of writing, there are good days and frustrating days. But even frustrating days can be rewarding sometimes.",
        "Author": "Ethan Coen"
    },
    {
        "Id": 577,
        "Quote": "My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind.",
        "Author": "Meg Rosoff"
    },
    {
        "Id": 578,
        "Quote": "I think if you say that art and politics, or religion and politics, mustn\u0027t mix, don\u0027t mix, that is itself a political statement. Even if you are writing a 19th-century novel where the money comes from a plantation in the Caribbean and you don\u0027t talk about that, that itself is a political thing.",
        "Author": "Mohsin Hamid"
    },
    {
        "Id": 579,
        "Quote": "The main differences between contemporary English and American literature is that the baleful pseudo-professionalism imparted by all those crap M.F.A. writing programs has yet to settle like a miasma of standardization on the English literary scene. But it\u0027s beginning to happen.",
        "Author": "Will Self"
    },
    {
        "Id": 580,
        "Quote": "There isn\u0027t much political coloration in my economic writing; it\u0027s not surprising that few people know my political views. They really aren\u0027t very important.",
        "Author": "Christopher A. Sims"
    },
    {
        "Id": 581,
        "Quote": "Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you have the talent to be able to write and to draw, it seems a shame to choose one. I think it\u0027s better to do both.",
        "Author": "Marjane Satrapi"
    },
    {
        "Id": 582,
        "Quote": "When I first got sick, they told me I had a year to live, and I was writing my memoir really fast. There were really weird things happening with my nervous system and my heart and stuff, and it didn\u0027t look like I was gonna make it, so I was writing really fast, and then I couldn\u0027t write anymore.",
        "Author": "John Lurie"
    },
    {
        "Id": 583,
        "Quote": "When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a novel. Writing poetry is a state of free float.",
        "Author": "Margaret Atwood"
    },
    {
        "Id": 584,
        "Quote": "I don\u0027t know how much longer I\u0027ll be around. I\u0027ll probably be writing when the Lord says, \u0027Maya, Maya Angelou, it\u0027s time.\u0027",
        "Author": "Maya Angelou"
    },
    {
        "Id": 585,
        "Quote": "Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I\u0027m going to paint until I paint it, so it\u0027s almost like automatic writing. A writer, on the other hand, can\u0027t help but know what he\u0027s going to write, because the activity demands a degree of premeditation.",
        "Author": "William S. Burroughs"
    },
    {
        "Id": 586,
        "Quote": "The first set of lyrics for the first songs I ever wrote, which are the ones on \u0027Pretty Hate Machine,\u0027 came from private journal entries that I realized I was writing in lyric form.",
        "Author": "Trent Reznor"
    },
    {
        "Id": 587,
        "Quote": "I think history is collective memories. In writing, I\u0027m using my own memory, and I\u0027m using my collective memory.",
        "Author": "Haruki Murakami"
    },
    {
        "Id": 588,
        "Quote": "Sunday afternoon is for papers and writing.",
        "Author": "Nicholas Haslam"
    },
    {
        "Id": 589,
        "Quote": "I was full time on \u0027Party of Five\u0027 for one year, then more like a creative consultant for two years, where I was in the writing rotation but didn\u0027t have to go in every day or cover the set until midnight.",
        "Author": "Susannah Grant"
    },
    {
        "Id": 590,
        "Quote": "Graffiti is linear, and it\u0027s done with a pencil, and it\u0027s like writing on walls.",
        "Author": "Cy Twombly"
    },
    {
        "Id": 591,
        "Quote": "I began writing when I was still in the British Foreign Service, and it was then understood that even if you wrote about butterfly collecting, you used another name.",
        "Author": "John le Carre"
    },
    {
        "Id": 592,
        "Quote": "Of course having a baby derails the writing process for some time. And I will be the first to say that I have essentially no social life, because there\u0027s just nothing left after being a mom, professor, and writer. I used to be big into rock climbing. No more. A lot falls by the wayside.",
        "Author": "Marie Rutkoski"
    },
    {
        "Id": 593,
        "Quote": "I love using my imagination. I love writing about animals.",
        "Author": "Mary Pope Osborne"
    },
    {
        "Id": 594,
        "Quote": "I don\u0027t really love writing. I don\u0027t love the feeling of starting a new file. But I love the feeling of overcoming and accomplishing.",
        "Author": "John Branch"
    },
    {
        "Id": 595,
        "Quote": "I\u0027m very physical. When I\u0027m writing, I\u0027m playing all the parts; I\u0027m saying the lines out loud, and if I get excited about something - which doesn\u0027t happen very often when I\u0027m writing, but it\u0027s the greatest feeling when it does - I\u0027ll be out of the chair and walking around, and if I\u0027m at home, I\u0027ll find myself two blocks from my house.",
        "Author": "Aaron Sorkin"
    },
    {
        "Id": 596,
        "Quote": "Philip Pullman and Jacqueline Wilson have both been writing for a long time. In 30 years, will writers of that quality have been able to serve the same sort of apprenticeship? Not unless they can make enough money now to live on.",
        "Author": "Tony Bradman"
    },
    {
        "Id": 597,
        "Quote": "There is certainly no one \u0027type\u0027 of writer who deliberately draws on Shakespeare. In fact, there\u0027s a strong argument that everyone writing in the English language is influenced by Shakespeare because, to a considerable degree, he shaped that language.",
        "Author": "Matt Haig"
    },
    {
        "Id": 598,
        "Quote": "I remember, in school, writing Janet Jackson and Michael Jackson and asking them to come get me out of class. I would imagine them running down the hall and asking my teacher, \u0027Ms. Daniels, can we get Missy out of class? We\u0027re here to see Missy.\u0027",
        "Author": "Missy Elliott"
    },
    {
        "Id": 599,
        "Quote": "There are some people who come to me for some illumination on their problems. I guess they feel I\u0027m writing about some of the things they themselves are going through. But I don\u0027t usually have much help to give - there isn\u0027t much you can say to someone in the midst of their own crises.",
        "Author": "Leonard Cohen"
    },
    {
        "Id": 600,
        "Quote": "I actually never liked writing on my own or in school until I\u0027d had my blog for a while and realized I\u0027d been writing every day for years.",
        "Author": "Tavi Gevinson"
    },
    {
        "Id": 601,
        "Quote": "A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.",
        "Author": "Bryan Adams"
    },
    {
        "Id": 602,
        "Quote": "Writing doesn\u0027t leave much time for hobbies, unless you consider that I began writing as a hobby and have made the hobby into a profession.",
        "Author": "Nelson DeMille"
    },
    {
        "Id": 603,
        "Quote": "I get caught up in my bubble of reading, writing, or music.",
        "Author": "Antonio Banderas"
    },
    {
        "Id": 604,
        "Quote": "Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.",
        "Author": "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie"
    },
    {
        "Id": 605,
        "Quote": "Writing is always a restorative process. It\u0027s like paddling a kayak. When you\u0027re writing, you can\u0027t do anything else. You\u0027re in the space you\u0027re in. So, in that way, it\u0027s enormously centering and restorative.",
        "Author": "Tabitha King"
    },
    {
        "Id": 606,
        "Quote": "The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come in and hopefully have something, then I wrestle with sounds and picture all day long. But the ideas usually come from a more obscure place, like a conversation with a director, a still somebody shows you, or whatever.",
        "Author": "Hans Zimmer"
    },
    {
        "Id": 607,
        "Quote": "I don\u0027t think anyone is ever writing so that you can throw it away. You\u0027re always writing it to be something. Later, you decide whether it\u0027ll ever see the light of day. But at the moment of its writing, it\u0027s always meant to be something. So, to me, there\u0027s no practicing; there\u0027s only editing and publishing or not publishing.",
        "Author": "Steve Martin"
    },
    {
        "Id": 608,
        "Quote": "You have to relax, write what you write. It sounds easy but it\u0027s really, really hard. One of the things it took me longest to learn was to trust the writing process.",
        "Author": "Diane Setterfield"
    },
    {
        "Id": 609,
        "Quote": "I grew up when one of America\u0027s greatest black playwrights, August Wilson, was writing about life in Pittsburgh, but I never saw myself in any of his straight-male plays. And then I see \u0027Angels,\u0027 which was so honest and painful, and it had this black drag queen in it, Belize, with a big heart. I finally had a character to relate to.",
        "Author": "Billy Porter"
    },
    {
        "Id": 610,
        "Quote": "Writing\u0027s like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.",
        "Author": "M. John Harrison"
    },
    {
        "Id": 611,
        "Quote": "My writing process often begins with a question. I write down ideas and let them stew for about a year. Then, when I sit down to write, I make a list of characters and try to see how they fit.",
        "Author": "Cynthia Voigt"
    },
    {
        "Id": 612,
        "Quote": "I never thought about writing a novel until I was 13, and that happened by chance. I was on school holidays, and I was bored, and I thought I just wanted to do something to occupy myself instead of asking, \u0027What can I do, mum? Entertain me.\u0027 I started, and it really just took over, and I realised, \u0027Wow, this is an amazing experience.\u0027",
        "Author": "Alexandra Adornetto"
    },
    {
        "Id": 613,
        "Quote": "Teenagers watch and listen to all kinds of things. It is the nature of being a teenager to seek out intense stuff. Stuff about death and sex and love and fear. Teenagers are the bravest, most curious, most philosophical, most open-minded readers there are, which is why so many less-than-young adults like writing for them.",
        "Author": "Matt Haig"
    },
    {
        "Id": 614,
        "Quote": "I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place.",
        "Author": "Richard Stallman"
    },
    {
        "Id": 615,
        "Quote": "Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit.",
        "Author": "Jonathan Lethem"
    },
    {
        "Id": 616,
        "Quote": "I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist.",
        "Author": "Clifford Geertz"
    },
    {
        "Id": 617,
        "Quote": "I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don\u0027t know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose.",
        "Author": "P. G. Wodehouse"
    },
    {
        "Id": 618,
        "Quote": "I like writing about friends.",
        "Author": "Julie Garwood"
    },
    {
        "Id": 619,
        "Quote": "When you\u0027re writing non-fiction, you go as far as you can go, and then ethically you have to stop. You can\u0027t go. You can\u0027t suppose. You can\u0027t imagine. And I think there\u0027s something in human nature that wants to finish the story.",
        "Author": "Geraldine Brooks"
    },
    {
        "Id": 620,
        "Quote": "I think people ease into this careerist professionalism, so if you\u0027re a writer it\u0027s your job to manufacture books as opposed to writing them and to go to festivals and spend your life emotionally invested in reviews or the awards. You have to shrink your universe in a way. To me, it\u0027s the opposite.",
        "Author": "Arundhati Roy"
    },
    {
        "Id": 621,
        "Quote": "The first thing that attracts me to any script is the writing. If I find myself becoming lost in a good yarn, then I feel certain that others will, too.",
        "Author": "Anne-Marie Duff"
    },
    {
        "Id": 622,
        "Quote": "When you\u0027re writing a book, with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people who are ordinary, because they are not going to interest your readers at all. Every writer in the world has to use the characters that have something interesting about them, and this is even more true in children\u0027s books.",
        "Author": "Roald Dahl"
    },
    {
        "Id": 623,
        "Quote": "Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.",
        "Author": "Grant Heslov"
    },
    {
        "Id": 624,
        "Quote": "I wasn\u0027t a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.",
        "Author": "Patricia Polacco"
    },
    {
        "Id": 625,
        "Quote": "When I was seven we moved to Orpington, and in my new school, I was kept in for extra lessons to learn \u0027joined-up\u0027 writing instead of playing football. I still think that my poor handwriting and lack of soccer skills date from that period.",
        "Author": "Martin Evans"
    },
    {
        "Id": 626,
        "Quote": "The old injunction \u0027Don\u0027t talk with your mouth full\u0027 is based on the presumption that, however multifunctional a mouth may be, it should only perform one job at a time. Humans have found a way around this limitation in the form of food writing.",
        "Author": "Bee Wilson"
    },
    {
        "Id": 627,
        "Quote": "If you can\u0027t turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn\u0027t be in the ad writing business at all.",
        "Author": "Leo Burnett"
    },
    {
        "Id": 628,
        "Quote": "But maybe it\u0027s up in the hills under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it\u0027s never found. But what you find, whatever you find, is always only part of the missing, and writing is the way the poet finds out what it is he found.",
        "Author": "Paul Engle"
    },
    {
        "Id": 629,
        "Quote": "In writing and politicking, it\u0027s best not to think about it, just do it.",
        "Author": "Gore Vidal"
    },
    {
        "Id": 630,
        "Quote": "A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.",
        "Author": "Edith Sitwell"
    },
    {
        "Id": 631,
        "Quote": "Writing is the supreme solace.",
        "Author": "W. Somerset Maugham"
    },
    {
        "Id": 632,
        "Quote": "There is creative reading as well as creative writing.",
        "Author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
    },
    {
        "Id": 633,
        "Quote": "I don\u0027t know much about creative writing programs. But they\u0027re not telling the truth if they don\u0027t teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.",
        "Author": "Doris Lessing"
    },
    {
        "Id": 634,
        "Quote": "Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.",
        "Author": "Jules Renard"
    },
    {
        "Id": 635,
        "Quote": "Writing a novel is like making love, but it\u0027s also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it\u0027s like making love while having a tooth pulled.",
        "Author": "Dean Koontz"
    },
    {
        "Id": 636,
        "Quote": "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.",
        "Author": "Anna Quindlen"
    },
    {
        "Id": 637,
        "Quote": "The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.",
        "Author": "Terry Southern"
    },
    {
        "Id": 638,
        "Quote": "Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.",
        "Author": "Robert A. Heinlein"
    },
    {
        "Id": 639,
        "Quote": "I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don\u0027t know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.",
        "Author": "J. K. Rowling"
    },
    {
        "Id": 640,
        "Quote": "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.",
        "Author": "Martin Mull"
    },
    {
        "Id": 641,
        "Quote": "It\u0027s a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.",
        "Author": "W. H. Auden"
    },
    {
        "Id": 642,
        "Quote": "Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.",
        "Author": "Walter Benjamin"
    },
    {
        "Id": 643,
        "Quote": "Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.",
        "Author": "Catherine Drinker Bowen"
    },
    {
        "Id": 644,
        "Quote": "The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.",
        "Author": "John Steinbeck"
    },
    {
        "Id": 645,
        "Quote": "I am a drinker with writing problems.",
        "Author": "Brendan Behan"
    },
    {
        "Id": 646,
        "Quote": "Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people.",
        "Author": "Katherine Mansfield"
    },
    {
        "Id": 647,
        "Quote": "I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.",
        "Author": "Hilaire Belloc"
    },
    {
        "Id": 648,
        "Quote": "They\u0027re fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don\u0027t listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.",
        "Author": "Lillian Hellman"
    },
    {
        "Id": 649,
        "Quote": "I don\u0027t know why I started writing. I don\u0027t know why anybody does it. Maybe they\u0027re bored, or failures at something else.",
        "Author": "Cormac McCarthy"
    },
    {
        "Id": 650,
        "Quote": "I\u0027m always in that mode - whenever I have a little free time, I\u0027m always recording songs, writing, whatever I gotta do. It\u0027s like my job is my vacation.",
        "Author": "Ludacris"
    },
    {
        "Id": 651,
        "Quote": "At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the \u0027what if - what then\u0027 approach to writing and illustration.",
        "Author": "Chris Van Allsburg"
    },
    {
        "Id": 652,
        "Quote": "I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It\u0027s always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the formal aspects of their work.",
        "Author": "Alain de Botton"
    },
    {
        "Id": 653,
        "Quote": "Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter.",
        "Author": "Alma Guillermoprieto"
    },
    {
        "Id": 654,
        "Quote": "Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.",
        "Author": "Buddy Ebsen"
    },
    {
        "Id": 655,
        "Quote": "If I wasn\u0027t writing poems I\u0027d be washing my hands all the time.",
        "Author": "Sherman Alexie"
    },
    {
        "Id": 656,
        "Quote": "Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn\u0027t write a headline to save their lives.",
        "Author": "Bill Walsh"
    },
    {
        "Id": 657,
        "Quote": "Depending on what I\u0027m working on, I come to the writing desk with entirely different mindsets. When I change form one to the other, it\u0027s as if another writer is on the scene.",
        "Author": "Evan Hunter"
    },
    {
        "Id": 658,
        "Quote": "Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover.",
        "Author": "Shakira"
    },
    {
        "Id": 659,
        "Quote": "However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.",
        "Author": "Wally Lamb"
    },
    {
        "Id": 660,
        "Quote": "Writing seems to be more difficult as you move through the years.",
        "Author": "George Crumb"
    },
    {
        "Id": 661,
        "Quote": "As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.",
        "Author": "Georges Bizet"
    },
    {
        "Id": 662,
        "Quote": "I think one of the things about writing in the studio is that the song hasn\u0027t matured, if you like, so quite often the vocals are early attempts. Whereas once you\u0027ve taken it out on the road a bit, you learn more about a song.",
        "Author": "Peter Gabriel"
    },
    {
        "Id": 663,
        "Quote": "I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it\u0027s usually hard to read.",
        "Author": "Tracy Kidder"
    },
    {
        "Id": 664,
        "Quote": "When we finished the tour we had been writing together for a year. We moved forward from there and have just now finished our record. We\u0027re having a new record out in the Spring.",
        "Author": "Kathy Valentine"
    },
    {
        "Id": 665,
        "Quote": "I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.",
        "Author": "Gwendolyn Brooks"
    },
    {
        "Id": 666,
        "Quote": "Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.",
        "Author": "Meg Cabot"
    },
    {
        "Id": 667,
        "Quote": "It\u0027s very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.",
        "Author": "Daniel Keys Moran"
    },
    {
        "Id": 668,
        "Quote": "Louis Pasteur said, \u0027Chance favors the prepared mind.\u0027 If you\u0027re really engaged in the writing, you\u0027ll work yourself out of whatever jam you find yourself in.",
        "Author": "Michael Chabon"
    },
    {
        "Id": 669,
        "Quote": "That\u0027s the best thing about writing, when you\u0027re in that zone, you\u0027re porous, ready to absorb the solution.",
        "Author": "Michael Chabon"
    },
    {
        "Id": 670,
        "Quote": "When I\u0027m not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I\u0027m not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I\u0027m reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.",
        "Author": "Lynn Abbey"
    },
    {
        "Id": 671,
        "Quote": "Writing, I\u0027m convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.",
        "Author": "Dan Simmons"
    },
    {
        "Id": 672,
        "Quote": "The essays are different because ultimately it\u0027s things I\u0027m interested in, and I\u0027m really just writing about myself and using those subjects as a prism.",
        "Author": "Chuck Klosterman"
    },
    {
        "Id": 673,
        "Quote": "I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child.",
        "Author": "Margaret Mahy"
    },
    {
        "Id": 674,
        "Quote": "In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die.",
        "Author": "Robyn Hitchcock"
    },
    {
        "Id": 675,
        "Quote": "If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.",
        "Author": "Russell Banks"
    },
    {
        "Id": 676,
        "Quote": "American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter.",
        "Author": "Guillermo Cabrera Infante"
    },
    {
        "Id": 677,
        "Quote": "I really enjoy writing novels. It\u0027s like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.",
        "Author": "Denis Johnson"
    },
    {
        "Id": 678,
        "Quote": "The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.",
        "Author": "Theodore Sturgeon"
    },
    {
        "Id": 679,
        "Quote": "Unless I\u0027m really uneasy with what I\u0027m writing, I lose interest very quickly.",
        "Author": "Paul Haggis"
    },
    {
        "Id": 680,
        "Quote": "The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I\u0027ve written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval.",
        "Author": "Joyce Maynard"
    },
    {
        "Id": 681,
        "Quote": "My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.",
        "Author": "Ryszard Kapuscinski"
    },
    {
        "Id": 682,
        "Quote": "Anyway, in my writing I\u0027ve always been interested in finding places to stand, and I\u0027ve found it very useful to have a direct experience of what I\u0027m writing about.",
        "Author": "Michael Pollan"
    },
    {
        "Id": 683,
        "Quote": "Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing.",
        "Author": "Mark Haddon"
    },
    {
        "Id": 684,
        "Quote": "Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.",
        "Author": "Layne Staley"
    },
    {
        "Id": 685,
        "Quote": "Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.",
        "Author": "Kathy Acker"
    },
    {
        "Id": 686,
        "Quote": "Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me.",
        "Author": "Zane Grey"
    },
    {
        "Id": 687,
        "Quote": "I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.",
        "Author": "Vincent Bugliosi"
    },
    {
        "Id": 688,
        "Quote": "And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I\u0027ll be more contented working in an office than ever before.",
        "Author": "Hart Crane"
    },
    {
        "Id": 689,
        "Quote": "People think my work is therapeutic. I don\u0027t see it that way. It\u0027s not like I\u0027m saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life.",
        "Author": "Neil LaBute"
    },
    {
        "Id": 690,
        "Quote": "Lyric writing is an interesting process in Sonic Youth. There\u0027s three people writing now, and we\u0027ve all had a lot of interest and involvement with expression through words.",
        "Author": "Thurston Moore"
    },
    {
        "Id": 691,
        "Quote": "I still can\u0027t decide which is more fun - reading or writing.",
        "Author": "Rex Stout"
    },
    {
        "Id": 692,
        "Quote": "I didn\u0027t really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.",
        "Author": "Neil Young"
    },
    {
        "Id": 693,
        "Quote": "One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you\u0027re not aware there was a writer there.",
        "Author": "Stephen Sondheim"
    },
    {
        "Id": 694,
        "Quote": "I\u0027m probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.",
        "Author": "Billy Joel"
    },
    {
        "Id": 695,
        "Quote": "Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it\u0027s structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there\u0027s nothing like writing about it right away.",
        "Author": "Ted Rall"
    },
    {
        "Id": 696,
        "Quote": "The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions.",
        "Author": "Mark Strand"
    },
    {
        "Id": 697,
        "Quote": "I just had to find something else to fulfill me. Always being a singer and writing, it was a blessing. My brother started making music that was the kind of music I always saw myself singing.",
        "Author": "Taryn Manning"
    },
    {
        "Id": 698,
        "Quote": "In time I began to understand that it\u0027s when you start writing that you really find out what you don\u0027t know and need to know.",
        "Author": "David McCullough"
    },
    {
        "Id": 699,
        "Quote": "If I\u0027m writing strictly for others, how does that show what I\u0027m experiencing or thinking? I just got to a point where I realized I could be as personal as I wanted to be and people could relate to those situations if they so choose.",
        "Author": "Chantal Kreviazuk"
    },
    {
        "Id": 700,
        "Quote": "I think it\u0027s important to really press on with the song writing and just go with it. There\u0027s no code, there\u0027s no craft... it\u0027s just let yourself shine through your music. If it\u0027s meant to be loved and heard, it\u0027ll happen.",
        "Author": "Chantal Kreviazuk"
    },
    {
        "Id": 701,
        "Quote": "Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.",
        "Author": "Jeanette Winterson"
    },
    {
        "Id": 702,
        "Quote": "Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear.",
        "Author": "Helen Dunmore"
    },
    {
        "Id": 703,
        "Quote": "Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one\u0027s grave without having directed. It\u0027s a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.",
        "Author": "Stephen Fry"
    },
    {
        "Id": 704,
        "Quote": "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.",
        "Author": "James Herriot"
    },
    {
        "Id": 705,
        "Quote": "I tend to have an odd split in my mind: I tend to look at it as a writer and when the writing thing is OK and I\u0027m happy with it, then I put on my actor\u0027s hat.",
        "Author": "John Cleese"
    },
    {
        "Id": 706,
        "Quote": "I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can\u0027t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.",
        "Author": "Toni Morrison"
    },
    {
        "Id": 707,
        "Quote": "Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they\u0027re worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don\u0027t teach you anything.",
        "Author": "John Kricfalusi"
    },
    {
        "Id": 708,
        "Quote": "But when you\u0027re writing a script - for me anyway - you have to sort of create an enforced innocence. You have to divest yourself of worrying about a lot of stuff like what movies are hot, what movies are not hot, what the budget of this movie might be.",
        "Author": "David Cronenberg"
    },
    {
        "Id": 709,
        "Quote": "Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.",
        "Author": "R. A. Salvatore"
    },
    {
        "Id": 710,
        "Quote": "That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.",
        "Author": "V. S. Naipaul"
    },
    {
        "Id": 711,
        "Quote": "I like myself better when I\u0027m writing regularly.",
        "Author": "Willie Nelson"
    },
    {
        "Id": 712,
        "Quote": "There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.",
        "Author": "Anthony Trollope"
    },
    {
        "Id": 713,
        "Quote": "I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.",
        "Author": "Anne Rice"
    },
    {
        "Id": 714,
        "Quote": "I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?",
        "Author": "Anne Tyler"
    },
    {
        "Id": 715,
        "Quote": "Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.",
        "Author": "James Joyce"
    },
    {
        "Id": 716,
        "Quote": "Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.",
        "Author": "Ishmael Reed"
    },
    {
        "Id": 717,
        "Quote": "Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.",
        "Author": "Flannery O\u0027Connor"
    },
    {
        "Id": 718,
        "Quote": "This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.",
        "Author": "Virginia Woolf"
    },
    {
        "Id": 719,
        "Quote": "Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.",
        "Author": "Raymond Chandler"
    },
    {
        "Id": 720,
        "Quote": "Never use the word \u0027audience.\u0027 The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don\u0027t have an \u0027audience\u0027. They\u0027re talking to a single person all the time.",
        "Author": "Robert Graves"
    },
    {
        "Id": 721,
        "Quote": "Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.",
        "Author": "Thomas a Kempis"
    },
    {
        "Id": 722,
        "Quote": "Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.",
        "Author": "Herman Hesse"
    },
    {
        "Id": 723,
        "Quote": "I have four shelves covered with journals that I\u0027ve written. Dad and I are writing songs together. I\u0027ve probably written 100 songs.",
        "Author": "Miley Cyrus"
    },
    {
        "Id": 724,
        "Quote": "All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.",
        "Author": "Isabel Allende"
    },
    {
        "Id": 725,
        "Quote": "I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.",
        "Author": "Amy Winehouse"
    },
    {
        "Id": 726,
        "Quote": "Having listened to great songwriters like James Taylor and Carole King, I felt there was nothing new that was coming out that really represented me and the way I felt. So I started writing my own stuff.",
        "Author": "Amy Winehouse"
    },
    {
        "Id": 727,
        "Quote": "I started writing it the day after Sept. 11. I was living in New York City. We didn\u0027t have any phone service and we didn\u0027t have any mail. Like a lot of writers do, I started to write in a voice that I missed.",
        "Author": "Kathryn Stockett"
    },
    {
        "Id": 728,
        "Quote": "I do have an office where about 70 percent of my writing gets done, but sometimes it does get a bit stir-crazy to be cooped up in there, so I\u0027ll grab my laptop and write somewhere else: another room in the house, out on the patio, or even Heaven-forbid, a trip to Starbucks. But I also write on the road.",
        "Author": "James Rollins"
    },
    {
        "Id": 729,
        "Quote": "The biggest sacrifice to me is to not be in an atmosphere where I can keep writing and moving forward.",
        "Author": "Trey Anastasio"
    },
    {
        "Id": 730,
        "Quote": "I really wish I knew what I was doing because I\u0027d be writing hit songs every minute.",
        "Author": "Bruno Mars"
    },
    {
        "Id": 731,
        "Quote": "I was assigned to the Waffen-SS but was never involved in any crime. Besides, I always felt the need to write about my experiences in a larger context one day. This has only developed recently, now that I have overcome my inner aversion to writing an autobiography in the first place, specifically one having to do with my younger years.",
        "Author": "Gunter Grass"
    },
    {
        "Id": 732,
        "Quote": "I don\u0027t think it\u0027s shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing.",
        "Author": "Curtis Sittenfeld"
    },
    {
        "Id": 733,
        "Quote": "My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever?",
        "Author": "Barbara Corcoran"
    },
    {
        "Id": 734,
        "Quote": "I used to work in kitchens, doing 12 or more hours a day of physical labor, so today, eight to 12 hours of cooking, chatting or filming feels like a vacation. When I have a scheduled \u0027day off,\u0027 I spend several hours writing, then I clean until I crash from fatigue. I don\u0027t relax well.",
        "Author": "Rachael Ray"
    },
    {
        "Id": 735,
        "Quote": "I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.",
        "Author": "Stephen King"
    },
    {
        "Id": 736,
        "Quote": "You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.",
        "Author": "Stephen King"
    },
    {
        "Id": 737,
        "Quote": "The one thing a lifetime in the newspaper business teaches you is pace - you spend all your time trying to make sure that the reader\u0027s going to finish what you\u0027re writing.",
        "Author": "Carl Hiaasen"
    },
    {
        "Id": 738,
        "Quote": "It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.",
        "Author": "Boris Johnson"
    },
    {
        "Id": 739,
        "Quote": "When I started writing full time I had not long stopped being a teacher and when at last I had a full day to write, I would put music on and wonder to myself - am I allowed to do this? Then I thought: \u0027I am control of this and no one is telling me what I can do.\u0027",
        "Author": "Roddy Doyle"
    },
    {
        "Id": 740,
        "Quote": "I\u0027ve been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.",
        "Author": "JoJo"
    },
    {
        "Id": 741,
        "Quote": "When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.",
        "Author": "Sherman Alexie"
    },
    {
        "Id": 742,
        "Quote": "It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.",
        "Author": "Chuck Palahniuk"
    },
    {
        "Id": 743,
        "Quote": "The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I\u0027m just like, \u0027Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do\u0027.",
        "Author": "Eminem"
    },
    {
        "Id": 744,
        "Quote": "First thing, I throw on some jeans, a T-shirt and my Keds sneakers and make coffee. That is actually my favorite time of day. That is when I do my songwriting, when I am in writing mode.",
        "Author": "Lucinda Williams"
    },
    {
        "Id": 745,
        "Quote": "I have a writing addiction.",
        "Author": "Prince"
    },
    {
        "Id": 746,
        "Quote": "I used to love writing in my journal.",
        "Author": "Tyra Banks"
    },
    {
        "Id": 747,
        "Quote": "I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.",
        "Author": "Carol Ann Duffy"
    },
    {
        "Id": 748,
        "Quote": "Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.",
        "Author": "J. K. Rowling"
    },
    {
        "Id": 749,
        "Quote": "I think that the idea that I\u0027m writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There\u0027s even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.",
        "Author": "Gabriel Garcia Marquez"
    },
    {
        "Id": 750,
        "Quote": "I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was really inspired by all those guys. That\u0027s when writing became a primary focus.",
        "Author": "Kurt Sutter"
    },
    {
        "Id": 751,
        "Quote": "Mostly, I just want to be in my house reading and writing.",
        "Author": "Julia Sweeney"
    },
    {
        "Id": 752,
        "Quote": "When I first got my record deal, I was like, \u0027I just want to sing,\u0027 and I never put much thought into what really goes into a record. But as I got older, I developed a passion for writing.",
        "Author": "Hilary Duff"
    },
    {
        "Id": 753,
        "Quote": "I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I\u0027d written, I don\u0027t want to leave that behind.",
        "Author": "J. K. Rowling"
    },
    {
        "Id": 754,
        "Quote": "Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she\u0027s had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.",
        "Author": "Carlos Fuentes"
    },
    {
        "Id": 755,
        "Quote": "Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but \u0027high suspense\u0027 writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama.",
        "Author": "Iris Johansen"
    },
    {
        "Id": 756,
        "Quote": "All I can guess is that when I write, I forget that it\u0027s not real. I\u0027m living the story, and I think people can read that sincerity about the characters. They are real to me while I\u0027m writing them, and I think that makes them real to the readers as well.",
        "Author": "Stephenie Meyer"
    },
    {
        "Id": 757,
        "Quote": "A lot of scientists hate writing. Most scientists love being in the lab and doing the work and when the work is done, they are finished.",
        "Author": "Stephen Jay Gould"
    },
    {
        "Id": 758,
        "Quote": "I like sitting and writing with my buddies.",
        "Author": "Adam Sandler"
    },
    {
        "Id": 759,
        "Quote": "When I\u0027m writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.",
        "Author": "E. L. Doctorow"
    },
    {
        "Id": 760,
        "Quote": "Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.",
        "Author": "V. S. Naipaul"
    },
    {
        "Id": 761,
        "Quote": "I always used to deny this, but I guess what I\u0027m really saying is that I was writing to shock... And I dug deep and dredged up all kinds of vile things which fascinated me at the time.",
        "Author": "Ian Mcewan"
    },
    {
        "Id": 762,
        "Quote": "The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There\u0027s a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject.",
        "Author": "Ian Mcewan"
    },
    {
        "Id": 763,
        "Quote": "I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.",
        "Author": "R. L. Stine"
    },
    {
        "Id": 764,
        "Quote": "Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, \u0027It\u0027s gonna sell.\u0027 I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before \u0027Tell No One.\u0027 I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement.",
        "Author": "Harlan Coben"
    },
    {
        "Id": 765,
        "Quote": "The real power of comics is writing as you draw.",
        "Author": "Chris Ware"
    },
    {
        "Id": 766,
        "Quote": "Despite having written five books, I worry that I have not written the right kinds of books, or that perhaps I have dedicated too much of my life to writing, and have therefore neglected other aspects of my being.",
        "Author": "Elizabeth Gilbert"
    },
    {
        "Id": 767,
        "Quote": "What does it mean to not be alone? I\u0027ve approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.",
        "Author": "Jaron Lanier"
    },
    {
        "Id": 768,
        "Quote": "I think the advent of the Internet gave us all a big boost, because by the time the Internet became mainstream and you could get it in your home, a lot of us were used to dealing in fan culture, writing to magazines or anything at the back of comic books.",
        "Author": "Kevin Smith"
    },
    {
        "Id": 769,
        "Quote": "One of the traps or the pitfalls of writing a trilogy - or a triptych, or whatever term you want to use - is that the second book can be a long second act to get you from book one to book three, which borrows all of its energy from the first book.",
        "Author": "Justin Cronin"
    },
    {
        "Id": 770,
        "Quote": "I\u0027m an ecumenical reader, grew up with all sorts of fiction, teach writing, went to the Iowa Writers\u0027 Workshop, so my tastes and interests are broad.",
        "Author": "Justin Cronin"
    },
    {
        "Id": 771,
        "Quote": "I\u0027ve been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.",
        "Author": "Lana Del Rey"
    },
    {
        "Id": 772,
        "Quote": "I sing because I love singing. I perform because I love performing. I write because I actually enjoy writing.",
        "Author": "Ne-Yo"
    },
    {
        "Id": 773,
        "Quote": "My dream role is to portray someone like James Baldwin. I\u0027ve always been a fan of his writing, and I feel like he\u0027s one of our unsung heroes. He\u0027s been pretty much forgotten, and I think he needs to be recognized. He had to go all the way to Europe to find recognition and acceptance, and I\u0027d just like to bring him to the forefront.",
        "Author": "Michael K. Williams"
    },
    {
        "Id": 774,
        "Quote": "Well, Toronto, I consider to be the birthplace of my films. I\u0027ve made three films and this is the third one to premiere here in the same theater on the same day at the same time - they are my audience. They\u0027re the people that I think about while I\u0027m writing, directing, and editing. I specifically make movies for them.",
        "Author": "Jason Reitman"
    },
    {
        "Id": 775,
        "Quote": "Some say I\u0027m an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. But while I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I have to concentrate on writing for myself. I can\u0027t worry about genres or markets or what might be commercial or not. That never works.",
        "Author": "Kate Morton"
    },
    {
        "Id": 776,
        "Quote": "What I find cool about being a banned author is this: I\u0027m writing books that evoke a reaction, books that, if dropped in a lake, go down not with a whimper but a splash.",
        "Author": "Lauren Myracle"
    },
    {
        "Id": 777,
        "Quote": "The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it\u0027s there forever.",
        "Author": "Ryan Tedder"
    },
    {
        "Id": 778,
        "Quote": "Writing songs is about trying to connect with people on a deeper spiritual level - but I\u0027m not a fan of contemporary Christian music.",
        "Author": "Ryan Tedder"
    },
    {
        "Id": 779,
        "Quote": "Writing for television is completely different from movie scriptwriting. A movie is all about the director\u0027s vision, but television is a writer\u0027s medium.",
        "Author": "Shonda Rhimes"
    },
    {
        "Id": 780,
        "Quote": "If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you\u0027re writing, ask yourself what\u0027s bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.",
        "Author": "Natalie Goldberg"
    },
    {
        "Id": 781,
        "Quote": "Farber had a huge effect on me as a writer. I don\u0027t mean I write like him. Farber is, first of all, a great stylist, a great writer. Anyone can read Manny Farber\u0027s film criticism, whether that person is a novelist, a poet, another critic, a historian, and learn a lot about writing by reading him.",
        "Author": "Greil Marcus"
    },
    {
        "Id": 782,
        "Quote": "When I write I try as far as possible to forget I\u0027m writing it at all. I tell it down onto the page, as if I\u0027m telling it to one person only, my best friend.",
        "Author": "Michael Morpurgo"
    },
    {
        "Id": 783,
        "Quote": "If I\u0027m serious, yes, I\u0027d like to have done what Shakespeare did... to act and write. You learn so much from acting. One of our great writers, Alan Bennett, does both supremely well. When I write a story, I tend to speak it aloud as I\u0027m writing it.",
        "Author": "Michael Morpurgo"
    },
    {
        "Id": 784,
        "Quote": "Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I\u0027m writing about, who don\u0027t always act in the film afterward.",
        "Author": "Abbas Kiarostami"
    },
    {
        "Id": 785,
        "Quote": "Even when I\u0027m in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do.",
        "Author": "Ellie Goulding"
    },
    {
        "Id": 786,
        "Quote": "I was really surprised at the success of \u0027House of Sand and Fog,\u0027 because it is so awfully dark. Believe it or not, when writing it, I never had the word \u0027tragedy\u0027 in my head - I wasn\u0027t trying to write a dark book at all.",
        "Author": "Andre Dubus III"
    },
    {
        "Id": 787,
        "Quote": "I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I\u0027m slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them - because I can\u0027t understand how you can explain a process that I find so baffling.",
        "Author": "Kate Atkinson"
    },
    {
        "Id": 788,
        "Quote": "I just hate sitting and writing - I had to do that in school. Plus, I have terrible handwriting.",
        "Author": "Saul Kripke"
    },
    {
        "Id": 789,
        "Quote": "If I\u0027m writing something and I\u0027m not feeling mischievous, then I know it\u0027s not going to be great.",
        "Author": "Elizabeth Meriwether"
    },
    {
        "Id": 790,
        "Quote": "The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the possibility of error. And that I have tried to do, aided by modern technology, which enables me, having long since moved beyond longhand, to use a computer for both organizing and taking notes.",
        "Author": "Doris Kearns Goodwin"
    },
    {
        "Id": 791,
        "Quote": "I\u0027m always writing. A friend of mine once said, \u0027You avoid re-writing by writing.\u0027 Which is kind of a good point, because re-writing seems to be mostly about craft, and writing is just, like, getting out your passion on a piece of paper.",
        "Author": "Cameron Crowe"
    },
    {
        "Id": 792,
        "Quote": "Anytime you put yourself in a creative box, it\u0027s going to stifle you; it\u0027s not conducive to the writing or recording process.",
        "Author": "Frank Iero"
    },
    {
        "Id": 793,
        "Quote": "Music is just a really fun hobby that I do, because I\u0027m actually really good about writing songs and producing. People don\u0027t realize this, but I am an excellent writer for artists.",
        "Author": "Tila Tequila"
    },
    {
        "Id": 794,
        "Quote": "I still get enormous pleasure and a sense of fulfillment out of writing a book that I\u0027m proud of. I see myself as a bit like a jewel-maker who can sit back and admire his work.",
        "Author": "Wilbur Smith"
    },
    {
        "Id": 795,
        "Quote": "On the day my daughter was born, I started writing a book for her. The plan was that, over the course of her life, I\u0027d fill it with advice on how to be a strong woman. But along the way, I got caught up in the stories of Amelia Earhart, Sally Ride, and so many others. So how do you pick the best heroes for your kids?",
        "Author": "Brad Meltzer"
    },
    {
        "Id": 796,
        "Quote": "I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to write fiction. So I did journalism because there were rules I could learn. You can teach someone to write a news story. They might not write a great one, but you can teach that pretty easily.",
        "Author": "Amy Hempel"
    },
    {
        "Id": 797,
        "Quote": "The one thing about being a dude and writing from a female perspective is that the baseline is, you suck. The baseline is it takes so long for you to work those atrophied muscles - for you to get on parity with what women\u0027s representations of men are.",
        "Author": "Junot Diaz"
    },
    {
        "Id": 798,
        "Quote": "When I read Toni Morrison and Sandra Cisneros as a freshman at Rutgers, it all clicked - that writing was all I wanted to do. It became my calling.",
        "Author": "Junot Diaz"
    },
    {
        "Id": 799,
        "Quote": "I think writing is the most underrated thing in Hollywood.",
        "Author": "Michael Pena"
    },
    {
        "Id": 800,
        "Quote": "I like writing about big turning points, where professional and personal lives coalesce, where the boundaries are coming down, and you\u0027re faced with a set of choices which will change life forever.",
        "Author": "Tana French"
    },
    {
        "Id": 801,
        "Quote": "Everyone who knew me as a child, they say they\u0027re not surprised that I became a writer because I wrote all the time. I don\u0027t remember writing, because I wouldn\u0027t have had the tools, but I think what they are saying is that I would pretend I was a writer.",
        "Author": "Jamaica Kincaid"
    },
    {
        "Id": 802,
        "Quote": "When I\u0027m writing, I think about the garden, and when I\u0027m in the garden I think about writing. I do a lot of writing by putting something in the ground.",
        "Author": "Jamaica Kincaid"
    },
    {
        "Id": 803,
        "Quote": "I have no credentials. I have no money. I literally come from a poor place. I was a servant. I dropped out of college. The next thing you know I\u0027m writing for the \u0027New Yorker,\u0027 I have this sort of life, and it must seem annoying to people.",
        "Author": "Jamaica Kincaid"
    },
    {
        "Id": 804,
        "Quote": "But what I\u0027m very interested in, whether it\u0027s writing, whether it\u0027s hosting a show, whether it\u0027s cooking food, I\u0027m just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture.",
        "Author": "Eddie Huang"
    },
    {
        "Id": 805,
        "Quote": "I am always coming up with architectural metaphors when I think about writing. But I think one of the things that draw us to literature is that it gives us this very attractive illusion that there is meaning in the world - things connect.",
        "Author": "Nicole Krauss"
    },
    {
        "Id": 806,
        "Quote": "If the book is a mystery to its author as she\u0027s writing, inevitably it\u0027s going to be a mystery to the reader as he or she reads it.",
        "Author": "Nicole Krauss"
    },
    {
        "Id": 807,
        "Quote": "A writer stops writing the moment he or she puts the last full stop to their text, and at that point the book is in limbo and doesn\u0027t come to life until the reader picks it up and the reader flips the pages.",
        "Author": "Alberto Manguel"
    },
    {
        "Id": 808,
        "Quote": "I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that\u0027s greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing books, I\u0027m trying to do that in a modest way.",
        "Author": "Daniel H. Pink"
    },
    {
        "Id": 809,
        "Quote": "I know I\u0027m writing better now than I ever did for adults because I\u0027m writing for an audience who know that they don\u0027t know everything.",
        "Author": "David Almond"
    },
    {
        "Id": 810,
        "Quote": "A lot of people, for example, live an anxious life. They don\u0027t realize they have a super-high level of anxiety. So we\u0027re gonna work on really writing down how anxious you feel at the moment you wake up. There\u0027s nothing wrong with it; the point is you learn to evaluate yourself and regulate yourself.",
        "Author": "Cesar Millan"
    },
    {
        "Id": 811,
        "Quote": "My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my personal experiences and elevate them to universal experiences, so that I wasn\u0027t writing songs about living on a tour bus or being on a TV set for the first time.",
        "Author": "Kate Voegele"
    },
    {
        "Id": 812,
        "Quote": "I was going to say that writing is about disclosure and acting is about obfuscation, but that\u0027s such a little lie. Both of them are about obfuscation and masking oneself.",
        "Author": "David Rakoff"
    },
    {
        "Id": 813,
        "Quote": "Changing writing styles is like an actor taking on a different part.",
        "Author": "Evan Hunter"
    },
    {
        "Id": 814,
        "Quote": "I write early in the morning. I just wake up whenever I feel awake and I have to be sitting and writing pretty soon after that. If I take too long to think about the impossibility of what I\u0027m trying to, I\u0027ll be defeated by it.",
        "Author": "Tim Cahill"
    },
    {
        "Id": 815,
        "Quote": "I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in my office and torture the keys. My one saving grace as a writer is that, if I\u0027m having trouble with the novel I\u0027m writing, I write something else, a poem or a short story. I try to avoid writer\u0027s block by always writing something.",
        "Author": "Jess Walter"
    },
    {
        "Id": 816,
        "Quote": "I like to tell kids that I started thinking about stories when I first started reading stuff like Dr. Seuss and \u0027Go, Dog. Go!,\u0027 thinking, \u0027Oh yeah, that\u0027s funny. I\u0027d like to do that.\u0027 And then writing throughout school, but at the same time I was studying pre-med stuff, because my mom told me I should be a doctor.",
        "Author": "Jon Scieszka"
    },
    {
        "Id": 817,
        "Quote": "All my books take a long time to research. I spend several months researching before I start writing, and in the middle of writing I often have to stop and look up stuff. At my local library, I am one of the best customers! The research takes several months.",
        "Author": "Linda Sue Park"
    },
    {
        "Id": 818,
        "Quote": "When I first started writing, I was living in England and I had that uniquely English sense of sarcasm, which has definitely seemed to have left me. I am a naturalized American and my sensibility has become far more American.",
        "Author": "Jane Green"
    },
    {
        "Id": 819,
        "Quote": "The writing I love has something memorable in it - an image, a smell. It\u0027s the connection between the moment and the whole concept, weaving the micro together with the macro so that it has a hold on people - that\u0027s writing.",
        "Author": "Atul Gawande"
    },
    {
        "Id": 820,
        "Quote": "I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view. It\u0027s informed by our own understanding of spirituality; things that matter, things that are important to us. I write about things that matter for me.",
        "Author": "Ted Dekker"
    },
    {
        "Id": 821,
        "Quote": "I procrastinate in spades. In my defence, I also try to have all other distractions solved before I can concentrate on writing. My small theory is that to write for three hours, you need to feel like you have three days. To write for three days, you need to feel like you\u0027ve got three weeks, and so on.",
        "Author": "Markus Zusak"
    },
    {
        "Id": 822,
        "Quote": "Nobody sounds good writing about your divorce, let\u0027s face it.",
        "Author": "Mary Karr"
    },
    {
        "Id": 823,
        "Quote": "Writing\u0027s a great skill, but thinking\u0027s a better one.",
        "Author": "Meg Rosoff"
    },
    {
        "Id": 824,
        "Quote": "I don\u0027t usually think of my writing as a \u0027challenge\u0027 because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that\u0027s what\u0027s helped me to avoid \u0027writer\u0027s block\u0027 all these years.",
        "Author": "Melody Carlson"
    },
    {
        "Id": 825,
        "Quote": "When you\u0027re writing, you\u0027re only a brain and some fingers, but drumming, you\u0027re involving all four limbs, and you\u0027re hearing stuff and you\u0027re converting your ideas into physical motions, getting physical feedback from things you are touching - it\u0027s pretty cool. It\u0027s a really a nice contrast to writing.",
        "Author": "Michael Azerrad"
    },
    {
        "Id": 826,
        "Quote": "When you\u0027re writing for a sequel and there\u0027s a movie that\u0027s been deemed sacred ground by the fanbase that\u0027s the predecessor, you cannot do anything to tread on that, so it\u0027s a bit trickier than just being able to sit down and write something.",
        "Author": "Troy Duffy"
    },
    {
        "Id": 827,
        "Quote": "When I\u0027m writing, I write every day. It\u0027s lovely when that\u0027s happening. One day dovetailing into the next. Sometimes I don\u0027t even know what day of the week it is.",
        "Author": "Raymond Carver"
    },
    {
        "Id": 828,
        "Quote": "I like writing code. I like building product. I like making things that people like.",
        "Author": "Paul Buchheit"
    },
    {
        "Id": 829,
        "Quote": "My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote some short stories of a very flimsy type, and also a work of a much more ambitious character, \u0027The Lives of the Black Letter Saints.\u0027",
        "Author": "Annie Besant"
    },
    {
        "Id": 830,
        "Quote": "As an actor, you are in a unique position because you\u0027re not only memorizing dialogue but really embodying it. You naturally feel the rhythm of good writing.",
        "Author": "Jesse Eisenberg"
    },
    {
        "Id": 831,
        "Quote": "I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support groups for the kind of people who think that writing is therapeutic. Writing is the exact opposite of therapy.",
        "Author": "Zadie Smith"
    },
    {
        "Id": 832,
        "Quote": "I have never been able to read Agatha Christie - the pleasure is purely in the puzzle, and the reader is toyed with by someone who didn\u0027t decide herself who the killer was until the end of the writing.",
        "Author": "A. S. Byatt"
    },
    {
        "Id": 833,
        "Quote": "Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend far more time teaching than they do conducting experiments or writing books.",
        "Author": "Derek Bok"
    },
    {
        "Id": 834,
        "Quote": "I find that I have about six bloggable ideas a day. I also find that writing twice as long a post doesn\u0027t increase communication, it usually decreases it. And finally, I found that people get antsy if there are unread posts in their queue.",
        "Author": "Seth Godin"
    },
    {
        "Id": 835,
        "Quote": "If I was painting or writing, I wouldn\u0027t veer away from things because they seemed unsavoury to me. So as an actor, I kind of think the same way. I should do things that are different and interesting and shed light on the craziness of the world.",
        "Author": "Josh Hartnett"
    },
    {
        "Id": 836,
        "Quote": "I love to direct! I get really jazzed by directing, but directing is not the same kind of personal expression, the same kind of personal intimate expression that writing is. Because when you\u0027re directing, you\u0027re basically managing, basically getting out of people doing their job, except when you see them going astray.",
        "Author": "Alan Ball"
    },
    {
        "Id": 837,
        "Quote": "Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.",
        "Author": "Enid Blyton"
    },
    {
        "Id": 838,
        "Quote": "What I really enjoy about writing for orchestras is realizing that - and it\u0027s kind of self-evident - but the fact that they are 48 individuals. It\u0027s not, you know, a preset on a keyboard. It\u0027s all these people who have opinions and who are making decisions about how to play.",
        "Author": "Jonny Greenwood"
    },
    {
        "Id": 839,
        "Quote": "The one thing with writing stories about the rise of fascism is that if you wait long enough, you\u0027ll almost certainly be proved right. Fascism is like a hydra - you can cut off its head in the Germany of the \u002730s and \u002740s, but it\u0027ll still turn up on your back doorstep in a slightly altered guise.",
        "Author": "Alan Moore"
    },
    {
        "Id": 840,
        "Quote": "The one recurring theme in my writing, and in my life in general, is confusion. The fact that anytime you think you really know something, you\u0027re going to find out you\u0027re wrong - that is the rule. The moments where you think you have something figured out, those are the exceptions.",
        "Author": "Conor Oberst"
    },
    {
        "Id": 841,
        "Quote": "It is impossible to know what fate will bring. If you love to write or paint, you will keep on writing or painting, and things will either work out or not, and you just have to keep being in the process.",
        "Author": "Maira Kalman"
    },
    {
        "Id": 842,
        "Quote": "I\u0027ve been writing since I was very young, even before I was a teenager. As far as I\u0027m concerned, I am a writer - whether my writing\u0027s spoken or written in a blog, paper, book or printed on the side of a submarine.",
        "Author": "Dylan Moran"
    },
    {
        "Id": 843,
        "Quote": "To be a good reporter, writing about war, you have to write about the people. It\u0027s not about the tanks or the RPGs or military strategy. It\u0027s always about the effect war has on civilians, on society, and how it disrupts and destroys lives.",
        "Author": "Janine di Giovanni"
    },
    {
        "Id": 844,
        "Quote": "Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place.",
        "Author": "Jill Scott"
    },
    {
        "Id": 845,
        "Quote": "As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past.",
        "Author": "Arthur Golden"
    },
    {
        "Id": 846,
        "Quote": "I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.",
        "Author": "Stephen King"
    },
    {
        "Id": 847,
        "Quote": "I spend a lot of my time just looking at words and grammar and writing things down that I don\u0027t know.",
        "Author": "John Grant"
    },
    {
        "Id": 848,
        "Quote": "When I\u0027m writing, quite often I start having a good time when I see there\u0027s a chance to make myself look like a real jerk. I start chuckling and having an interesting, rather than a boring, time.",
        "Author": "Geoff Dyer"
    },
    {
        "Id": 849,
        "Quote": "Everything I\u0027ve ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.",
        "Author": "Toni Morrison"
    },
    {
        "Id": 850,
        "Quote": "So that\u0027s why one of my rules of parody writing is that it\u0027s gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.",
        "Author": "Al Yankovic"
    },
    {
        "Id": 851,
        "Quote": "Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.",
        "Author": "Kazuo Ishiguro"
    },
    {
        "Id": 852,
        "Quote": "It\u0027s good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it\u0027s very pleasing after writing something like \u0027Atonement\u0027 or \u0027On Chesil Beach,\u0027 which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now.",
        "Author": "Ian Mcewan"
    },
    {
        "Id": 853,
        "Quote": "I want to keep publishing books, and writing and spreading my heartsong through the world.",
        "Author": "Mattie Stepanek"
    },
    {
        "Id": 854,
        "Quote": "There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I\u0027m not so interested in the divisions. I\u0027m interested in the way things cross over.",
        "Author": "Sam Shepard"
    },
    {
        "Id": 855,
        "Quote": "Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.",
        "Author": "Nicholas Sparks"
    },
    {
        "Id": 856,
        "Quote": "What is writing but an expression of my own life?",
        "Author": "Zane Grey"
    },
    {
        "Id": 857,
        "Quote": "My abilities grow with each job, whether it\u0027s writing or directing. When I stop learing, I\u0027ll stop working.",
        "Author": "Peter Fonda"
    },
    {
        "Id": 858,
        "Quote": "The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some of my favorites are \u0027The Road\u0027 by Cormac McCarthy, \u0027The Virgin Suicides\u0027 by Jeffrey Eugenides, \u0027The Interpreter of Maladies\u0027 by Jhumpa Lahiri, and \u0027Blindness\u0027 by Jose Saramago.",
        "Author": "Karen Thompson Walker"
    },
    {
        "Id": 859,
        "Quote": "But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art.",
        "Author": "Russell Banks"
    },
    {
        "Id": 860,
        "Quote": "Writing is a solitary occupation.",
        "Author": "Bernard Cornwell"
    },
    {
        "Id": 861,
        "Quote": "Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it\u0027s about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.",
        "Author": "Mordecai Richler"
    },
    {
        "Id": 862,
        "Quote": "I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.",
        "Author": "Brenda Ueland"
    },
    {
        "Id": 863,
        "Quote": "I have to feel what I\u0027m writing, right down to the core.",
        "Author": "Steven Erikson"
    },
    {
        "Id": 864,
        "Quote": "Like many authors, I caught the writing bug during my teenage years. I don\u0027t remember the exact day or year, but I remember that reading S.E. Hinton\u0027s \u0027The Outsiders\u0027 sparked my interest in writing.",
        "Author": "Ally Carter"
    }
]