Balanced Writer

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

Television has raised writing to a new low. - Samuel Goldwyn

Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety. - Jack Nicklaus

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

The point of good writing is knowing when to stop. - L.M. Montgomery

Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread. - Ion Tiriac

There is creative reading as well as creative writing. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fiction writing is great, you can make up almost anything. - Ivana Trump

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

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

People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing about. - Benjamin Franklin

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

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends. - Plutarch

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

A memorandum isn't written to inform the receiver, but to protect the writer. - Dean Acheson

I write by ear. I tried writing with the typewriter, but I found it too unwieldy. - Groucho Marx

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

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. - Jules Renard

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

People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician. - Eleanor Clift

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

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

Of all the useless things a person can do, limerick writing is right up there with golf and fishing. - Garrison Keillor

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

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

The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man. - Stephen Covey

I met a man at a party. He said, "I'm writing a novel." I said, "Oh, really? Neither am I." - Peter Cook

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. - Andre Gide

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from. - Gene Fowler

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication. - Harold S Geneen

If I'm losing balance in a pose, I stretch higher and God reaches down to steady me. It works every time, and not just in yoga. - T. Guillemets

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

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

I love writing for women. The willingness to go from laughter to tears in a moment is the greatest palette you can paint with as a writer. - Michael P King

Stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a mental form of athleticism. - Julia Glass