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If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
- Stephen King
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Best Quotes about Writing

1.
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
Oscar Wilde

2.
I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it.
Lord Brabazon

3.
I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
Peter De Vries

4.
The cure for writer's cramp is writer's block.
Inigo DeLeon

5.
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

6.
I am a galley slave to pen and ink.
Honore de Balzac

7.
If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.
Victor Hugo

8.
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

9.
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

10.
Vigorous writing is concise.
William Strunk Jr.

11.
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

12.
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

13.
It's not about the writing. It's about the feelings behind the words.
Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

14.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Thomas Berger

15.
Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
Fran Lebowitz

16.
All a good letter has to do is make you feel special.
Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

17.
Not every story has explosions and car chases. That's why they have nudity and espionage.
Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum

18.
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
Robert Heinlein

19.
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

20.
This is pretty much what journals are all about, at least to me. I knew as I wrote them that even though they provided an excellent place for brain (and heart, and psyche) dump, they were mainly a map of me.
Colleen Wainwright

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.
It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.
Isabel Colegate

23.
When you write things down, they sometimes take you places you hadn't planned.
Melanie Benjamin

24.
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

25.
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

26.
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
Raymond Chandler

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.
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

29.
First you're an unknown, then you write one book and you move up to obscurity.
Martin Myers

30.
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
Stephen King

31.
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

32.
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

33.
I have never thought of writing as hard work, but I have worked hard to find a voice.
Randy Pausch

34.
All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
Bobby Knight

35.
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

36.
There's always something to write about. If there's not then you need to live life more aggressively.
Min Kim

37.
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
Tom Bissell

38.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
H. G. Wells

39.
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

40.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Thomas Mann

41.
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

42.
Even writers need relief from words.
Sarah Vowell

43.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Jules Renard

44.
Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
Daphne du Maurier

45.
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

46.
I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
Samuel Goldwyn

47.
An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.
W. Somerset Maugham

48.
Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you.
Real Live Preacher

49.
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
Carol Burnett

50.
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


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