Balanced Writer

God is love, but get it in writing. - Gypsy Rose Lee

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

Balance is the key to wrestling and life. - Unknown

The writer is the engineer of the human soul. - Joseph Stalin

Judge, could I, waddya call, encroach the bench? - Archie Bunker

The wastebasket is the writer's best friend. - Isaac B Singer

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. - Robert Frost

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

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. - Robert Frost

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

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors. - Edward Dahlberg

There is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. - Booker T Washington

Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it. - Tabitha King

In Ireland, a writer is looked upon as a failed conversationalist. - Unknown

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

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. - Albert Einstein

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. - George Santayana

When writing the story of your life, don't let anyone else hold the pen. - Unknown

Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. - Sir Francis Bacon

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. - Ernest Hemingway

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

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up. - Ernest Hemingway

Writing is mentally stimulating; it's like a puzzle that makes you think all the time. - Stephanie Zimbalist

Concentrate on what you're doing - then you won't have time to tense up and worry. - Unknown

The writing of more than 75 poems in any fiscal year should be punishable by a fine of $500. - Ed Sanders

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

Early on, if I was alone two or three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide. - Jack Nicholson

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. - John Updike

Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall. - Alan Bennett

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

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. - Robert Frost

Doing well with blogging is not about writing one key post, it is about performing day after day and helping a few people at a time. - Aaron Wall

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

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

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

Think while walking, walk while thinking, and let writing be but the light pause, as the body on a walk rests in contemplation of wide open spaces. - Frederic Gros