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The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
- Leo Rosten
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Best Quotes about Writing

1.
I am a galley slave to pen and ink.
Honore de Balzac

2.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Thomas Mann

3.
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
Charles de Montesquieu

4.
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
Ray Bradbury

5.
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

6.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
H. G. Wells

7.
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

8.
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what youÆre doing, or it comes out flat. You canÆt fake your way through this.
Real Live Preacher

9.
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

10.
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
Stephen King

11.
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

12.
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

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

14.
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

15.
We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
W. Somerset Maugham

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.
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

18.
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

19.
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

20.
You must not come lightly to the blank page.
Stephen King

21.
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

22.
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

23.
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

24.
Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
Henry James

25.
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

26.
All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
Bobby Knight

27.
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

28.
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
Edward Gibbon

29.
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

30.
There's always something to write about. If there's not then you need to live life more aggressively.
Min Kim

31.
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

32.
When you write things down, they sometimes take you places you hadn't planned.
Melanie Benjamin

33.
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
George Ade

34.
I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
Samuel Goldwyn

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

36.
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

37.
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.
Benjamin Disraeli

38.
I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
Blaise Pascal

39.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Samuel Johnson

40.
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

41.
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

42.
First you're an unknown, then you write one book and you move up to obscurity.
Martin Myers

43.
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

44.
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

45.
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

46.
Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.
Stanislaw J. Lec

47.
Even writers need relief from words.
Sarah Vowell

48.
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

49.
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

50.
Not every story has explosions and car chases. That's why they have nudity and espionage.
Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum


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