Balanced Writer

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I am a drinker with writing problems. - Brendan Behan

A writer's life is the ideal life. - P G Wodehouse

Writing is a struggle against silence. - Carlos Fuentes

That's not writing, that's typing. - Truman Capote

Dance is a delicate balance between perfection and beauty. - Unknown

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done. - Steven Wright

Writing is throwing spaghetti at a wall to see what sticks. - Kelly E. Lindner

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork. - Peter de Vries

Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you. - Marsha Norman

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself. - Albert Camus

Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life. - Lawrence Kasdan

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it. - Leo Rosten

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. - Cicero

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. - W Somerset Maugham

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on. - Louis L'Amour

Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials. - Mordecai Richler

Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary. - Ray Knight

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn. - Robert Frost

The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both. - Susan Sontag

What do people do with all the extra time they save by writing 'k' instead of 'ok'? - Unknown

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs. - Christopher Hampton

Success in life is not a matter so much of talent or opportunity but of concentration and perseverance. - C.W. Wendte

Like a great Eastern religion says, it's all about striking a balance between the ping and the pong. - Kelly

It's not plagiarism - I'm recycling words, as any good environmentally conscious writer would do. - Unlek Swain

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader. - Robert Frost

Wanting to meet a writer because you like their books is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pate. - Margaret Atwood

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The Sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. - Alexander Graham Bell

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life. - William Arthur Ward

Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank piece of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. - Gene Fowler

I can't understand why you don't get any mail from me. Perhaps it's because I haven't been writing. - Groucho Marx

Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing. - Ben Hecht

Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking and writing. - Isaac B Singer

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. - Ray Bradbury

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth reading or do things worth the writing. - Benjamin Franklin

As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end. - Tahir Shah

Life is a child playing around your feet, a tool you hold firmly in your grip, a bench you sit down upon in the evening, in your garden. - Jean Anouilh

If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable. - Donald Trump

My writing philosophy is throwing spaghetti against the wall. That's how I take pictures, too. If I take 100, surely one will be good. - Amanda Peet

There must be some honest lawyers at the New York bar, and some impartial judges on the New York bench, but I should not like to be set to find them. - Lyman Abbott