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I am a galley slave to pen and ink.
- Honore de Balzac
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Best Quotes about Writing

1.
We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
W. Somerset Maugham

2.
In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
Pliny the Elder

3.
Keep writing. Keep doing it and doing it. Even in the moments when it's so hurtful to think about writing.
Heather Armstrong

4.
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Josh Billings

5.
You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despairûthe sense that you can never completely put on the page whatÆs in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page.
Stephen King

6.
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

7.
You must not come lightly to the blank page.
Stephen King

8.
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
Stephen King

9.
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

10.
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

11.
The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.
John Burroughs

12.
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.
Edwin Schlossberg

13.
All a good letter has to do is make you feel special.
Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

14.
Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.
Stanislaw J. Lec

15.
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
Edith Wharton

16.
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

17.
If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.
Elaine Liner

18.
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
George Ade

19.
Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
Fran Lebowitz

20.
If you want to write you must have faith in yourself. Faith enough to believe that if a thing is true about you, it is likely true about many people. And if you can have faith in your integrity and your motives, then you can write about yourself without fear.
Real Live Preacher

21.
She was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same-you couldn't just soak it up then squeeze it out again.
David Nicholls

22.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
H. G. Wells

23.
You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.
Isaac Asimov

24.
Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.
Samuel Johnson

25.
I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
Samuel Goldwyn

26.
I never feel that I have comprehended an emotion, or fully lived even the smallest events, until I have reflected upon it in my journal; my pen is my truest confidant, holding in check the passions and disappointments that I dare not share even with my beloved.
Stephanie Barron

27.
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

28.
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

29.
Even writers need relief from words.
Sarah Vowell

30.
If the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or, by its moral, taught him to sustain it - the effort, however humble, has not been vain, nor is the writer unrewarded.
Ann Radcliffe

31.
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
Carol Burnett

32.
I always wrote with the idea that what I put out there is going to stay there. Once I publish something, it has been published. I've never deleted more than one or two posts from my site. I don't think that there are takebacks. I don't feel right about it.
Alison Headley

33.
All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
Bobby Knight

34.
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
Ray Bradbury

35.
It's not about the writing. It's about the feelings behind the words.
Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

36.
Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.
Leonard Bernstein

37.
Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you.
Real Live Preacher

38.
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.
Benjamin Disraeli

39.
Detail makes the difference between boring and terrific writing. ItÆs the difference between a pencil sketch and a lush oil painting. As a writer, words are your paint. Use all the colors.
Rhys Alexander

40.
I am a galley slave to pen and ink.
Honore de Balzac

41.
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

42.
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

43.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Thomas Berger

44.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Samuel Johnson

45.
Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.
John Ruskin

46.
Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
Jules Renard

47.
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
Robert Heinlein

48.
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

49.
I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worries and only half the royalties.
Agatha Christie

50.
It's not enough to create magic. You have to create a price for magic, too. You have to create rules.
Eric A. Burns


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