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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
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Best Quotes about Writing

1.
Vigorous writing is concise.
William Strunk Jr.

2.
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

3.
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

4.
Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you.
Real Live Preacher

5.
I am a galley slave to pen and ink.
Honore de Balzac

6.
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
Sir Francis Bacon

7.
There's always something to write about. If there's not then you need to live life more aggressively.
Min Kim

8.
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

9.
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

10.
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

11.
This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two.
George Burns

12.
If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.
Elaine Liner

13.
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

14.
The first step in blogging is not writing them but reading them.
Jeff Jarvis

15.
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

16.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Samuel Johnson

17.
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
George Ade

18.
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

19.
When you write things down, they sometimes take you places you hadn't planned.
Melanie Benjamin

20.
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

21.
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

22.
Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
Jules Renard

23.
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

24.
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

25.
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
Charles de Montesquieu

26.
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Josh Billings

27.
All a good letter has to do is make you feel special.
Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

28.
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

29.
You must not come lightly to the blank page.
Stephen King

30.
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

31.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
Real Live Preacher

32.
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

33.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
H. G. Wells

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.
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

36.
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

37.
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
Raymond Chandler

38.
Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
Henry James

39.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Thomas Berger

40.
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

41.
The cure for writer's cramp is writer's block.
Inigo DeLeon

42.
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

43.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Thomas Mann

44.
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
Robert Heinlein

45.
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

46.
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

47.
It's not enough to create magic. You have to create a price for magic, too. You have to create rules.
Eric A. Burns

48.
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

49.
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.
Benjamin Disraeli

50.
Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
Daphne du Maurier


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