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The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.
- John Irving
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Best Quotes about Writing

1.
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
Stephen King

2.
I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
Blaise Pascal

3.
Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
Henry James

4.
It's not about the writing. It's about the feelings behind the words.
Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

5.
The most difficult part of writing a book is not devising a plot which will captivate the reader. It's not developing characters the reader will have strong feelings for or against. It is not finding a setting which will take the reader to a place he or she as never been. It is not the research, whether in fiction or non-fiction. The most difficult task facing a writer is to find the voice in which to tell the story.
Randy Pausch

6.
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

7.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Thomas Mann

8.
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
Edward Gibbon

9.
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

10.
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

11.
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
Charles de Montesquieu

12.
Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
Fran Lebowitz

13.
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

14.
There are a lot of people who can't write and maybe shouldn't write.
Sarah Hepola

15.
Vigorous writing is concise.
William Strunk Jr.

16.
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

17.
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

18.
It's not enough to create magic. You have to create a price for magic, too. You have to create rules.
Eric A. Burns

19.
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Robert Benchley

20.
This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two.
George Burns

21.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Jules Renard

22.
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

23.
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
Carol Burnett

24.
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

25.
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

26.
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
Robert Heinlein

27.
We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
W. Somerset Maugham

28.
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

29.
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

30.
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

31.
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

32.
Even writers need relief from words.
Sarah Vowell

33.
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

34.
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

35.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
Real Live Preacher

36.
Writing well mean never having to say,'I guess you had to be there.'
Jef Mallett

37.
Maybe that's just what happens; you start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few jokes.
David Nicholls

38.
I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
Peter De Vries

39.
The first step in blogging is not writing them but reading them.
Jeff Jarvis

40.
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

41.
I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
Samuel Goldwyn

42.
If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.
Elaine Liner

43.
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

44.
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

45.
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
Stephen King

46.
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say'infinitely'when you mean'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
C. S. Lewis

47.
First you're an unknown, then you write one book and you move up to obscurity.
Martin Myers

48.
Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationary. The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus ticket, on the wall of a cell.
David Nicholls

49.
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

50.
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


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