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Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built.

I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do.

Leon Uris

I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps.

So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain.

Leon Uris

Writing

Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about.

It's not the case of turning in a bunch of songs and recording the next month. I think you're looking for songs all year long and you're writing all year long.

Keith Urban

Songs

Writing

It can get a little costly if you try and leave it until then to write songs. But you're writing all the time. You're collecting songs. I've had songs that have been collected over a two-year period for my next record.

They're mostly done before we went into the studio, although I do like writing in the studio.

Keith Urban

Writing

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

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.

Brenda Ueland

Writing

Even if I knew for certain that I would never have anything published again, and would never make another cent from it, I would still keep on writing.

Brenda Ueland

Writing

Any doctor will admit that any drug can have side effects, and that writing a prescription involves weighing the potential benefits against the risks.

The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.

If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission in writing.

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?