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To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
- Rice, Anne
Writers and writing Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Writers and writing

1.
If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!
Collins, Jackie

2.
Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
Chandler, Raymond

3.
For a creative writer possession of the truth is less important than emotional sincerity.
Orwell, George

4.
Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players, and Tennessee Williams has about 5, and Samuel Beckett one -- and maybe a clone of that one. I have 10 or so, and that's a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.
Vidal, Gore

5.
Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
Donleavy, J. P.

6.
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
White, Elwyn Brooks

7.
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
Bovee, Christian Nevell

8.
Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness falsifies everything, whose wick is in permanent danger of explosion, whose blinking illumination in the coal dust exhausts and corrodes your eyes.
Sauser, Blaise Cendrars

9.
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years.
Horace

10.
Let's face it, writing is hell.
Styron, William

11.
If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.
Martin, Judith

12.
What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window.
Rascoe, Burton

13.
If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
Hellman, Lillian

14.
There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately no one knows what they are.
Maugham, W. Somerset

15.
Writing is a craft not an art.
Zinsser, William

16.
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

17.
I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
Michener, James A.

18.
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
Rushdie, Salman

19.
Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!
Ferber, Edna

20.
Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.
Ellman, Lucy

21.
If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster.
Asimov, Isaac

22.
I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true.
Pirandello, Luigi

23.
The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.
Vorse, Mary Heaton

24.
The role of the writer is not simply to arrange Being according to his own lights; he must also serve as a medium to Being and remain open to its often unfathomable dictates. This is the only way the work can transcend its creator and radiate its meaning further than the author himself can see or perceive.
Havel, Vaclav

25.
The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.
Hemingway, Ernest

26.
Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.
Borges, Jorge Luis

27.
You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination. Hold the philosophy, hold the adjectives, just give us a plain subject and verb and perhaps a wholesome, nonfattening adverb or two.
Mcmurtry, Larry

28.
The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.
Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

29.
The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.
Sand, George

30.
Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard.
Corbett, James J.

31.
I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
Naipaul, V. S.

32.
It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
Maugham, W. Somerset

33.
There are hardly half a dozen writers in England today who have not sold out to the enemy. Even when their good work has been a success, Mammon grips them and whispers: More money for more work.
Crowley, Aleister

34.
Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.
Hemingway, Ernest

35.
Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
Dahlberg, Edward

36.
O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.
Swift, Jonathan

37.
Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.
Zinsser, William

38.
All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

39.
It requires more than mere genius to be an author.
La Bruyere, Jean De

40.
Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.
Churchill, Winston

41.
Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain.
Wiesel, Elie

42.
Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
Pinter, Harold

43.
Writers are always selling somebody out.
Didion, Joan

44.
The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.
Hemingway, Ernest

45.
A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.
Blanchot, Maurice

46.
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up, because by that time I was too famous.
Benchley, Robert

47.
Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.
Thurber, James

48.
Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
Mailer, Norman

49.
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
Steinem, Gloria

50.
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
Walker, Alice


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