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Best Quotes about Writing

1.
If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

2.
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what youÆre doing, or it comes out flat. You canÆt fake your way through this.
Real Live Preacher

3.
Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment.
Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

4.
Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
Daphne du Maurier

5.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
George Bernard Shaw

6.
I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
Blaise Pascal

7.
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
Sir Winston Churchill

8.
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
Randy K. Milholland

9.
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
Real Live Preacher

10.
Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
Jules Renard

11.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Jules Renard

12.
If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.
Victor Hugo

13.
The cure for writer's cramp is writer's block.
Inigo DeLeon

14.
People do tell a writer things that they don't tell others. I don't know why, unless it is that having read one or two of his books they feel on peculiarly intimate terms with him; or it may be that they dramatize themselves and, seeing themselves as it were as characters in a novel, are ready to be as open with him as they imagine the characters of his invention are.
W. Somerset Maugham

15.
No letter from a lover is ever more welcome, brings more joy, than a publisher's expression of interest does to a new author!
Judith Brocklehurst

16.
Not every story has explosions and car chases. That's why they have nudity and espionage.
Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum

17.
There are a lot of people who can't write and maybe shouldn't write.
Sarah Hepola

18.
Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.
Jesse Stuart

19.
It's not enough to create magic. You have to create a price for magic, too. You have to create rules.
Eric A. Burns

20.
You ask me why I do not write something....I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.
Florence Nightingale

21.
Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.
Katherine Paterson

22.
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
Carol Burnett

23.
If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.
Elaine Liner

24.
It's not about the writing. It's about the feelings behind the words.
Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

25.
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Ronald Reagan

26.
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
Stephen King

27.
Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you.
Real Live Preacher

28.
Journalism is just a gun. It's only got one bullet in it, but if you aim right, that's all you need. Aim it right and you can blow a kneecap off the world.
Warren Ellis

29.
The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
Leo Rosten

30.
In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.
George Orwell

31.
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
Charles de Montesquieu

32.
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.
Benjamin Disraeli

33.
I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
Joan Didion

34.
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.
Junot Diaz

35.
There is nothing to write about, you say. Well then, write and let me know just this - that there is nothing to write about; or tell me in the good old style if you are well. That's right. I am quite well.
Pliny the Younger

36.
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
Edward Gibbon

37.
The key to non-anxious sermon-writing is that itÆs not about me. ItÆs about the congregation. I honor the fact that the listeners bring more to the sermon than I do. I remind myself of the hundreds of times someone says,'I loved how you saidà'and then tell me things that they heard that were nowhere in my text and that I never said. But they heard what they needed to hear.
Reverend Sean Parker Dennison

38.
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
C. S. Lewis

39.
A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?
George Orwell

40.
I have never thought of writing as hard work, but I have worked hard to find a voice.
Randy Pausch

41.
The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.
Russell Baker

42.
We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
W. Somerset Maugham

43.
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
Robert Heinlein

44.
There's always something to write about. If there's not then you need to live life more aggressively.
Min Kim

45.
Vigorous writing is concise.
William Strunk Jr.

46.
Even writers need relief from words.
Sarah Vowell

47.
There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.
Saul Bellow

48.
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.
Edwin Schlossberg

49.
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
David Sedaris

50.
This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two.
George Burns


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