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

2.
It's not enough to create magic. You have to create a price for magic, too. You have to create rules.
Eric A. Burns

3.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
Real Live Preacher

4.
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

5.
I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
Peter De Vries

6.
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
Ray Bradbury

7.
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

8.
Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
Fran Lebowitz

9.
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

10.
I am a galley slave to pen and ink.
Honore de Balzac

11.
I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
Samuel Goldwyn

12.
Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
Jules Renard

13.
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

14.
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

15.
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
Truman Capote

16.
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

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

18.
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

19.
Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
Henry James

20.
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

21.
Even writers need relief from words.
Sarah Vowell

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

23.
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

24.
Writing well mean never having to say,'I guess you had to be there.'
Jef Mallett

25.
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

26.
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
Stephen King

27.
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

28.
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
Sir Francis Bacon

29.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
H. G. Wells

30.
I have never thought of writing as hard work, but I have worked hard to find a voice.
Randy Pausch

31.
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

32.
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

33.
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

34.
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

35.
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

36.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Thomas Berger

37.
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

38.
If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.
Elaine Liner

39.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
Solomon Short

40.
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.
Benjamin Disraeli

41.
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.
Edwin Schlossberg

42.
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

43.
A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
Ring Lardner

44.
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

45.
We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
W. Somerset Maugham

46.
This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two.
George Burns

47.
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

48.
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

49.
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

50.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Jules Renard


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