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



Best Quotes about Writing

1.
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
Carol Burnett

2.
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

3.
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
Randy K. Milholland

4.
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

5.
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

6.
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

7.
It's not about the writing. It's about the feelings behind the words.
Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

8.
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

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.
Keep writing. Keep doing it and doing it. Even in the moments when it's so hurtful to think about writing.
Heather Armstrong

11.
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
Raymond Chandler

12.
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

13.
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

14.
All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
Bobby Knight

15.
Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
Daphne du Maurier

16.
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

17.
If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.
Elaine Liner

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

20.
I am a galley slave to pen and ink.
Honore de Balzac

21.
There's always something to write about. If there's not then you need to live life more aggressively.
Min Kim

22.
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

23.
Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
Jules Renard

24.
Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
Fran Lebowitz

25.
I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
Blaise Pascal

26.
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
Truman Capote

27.
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

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

29.
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

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

32.
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

33.
If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.
Victor Hugo

34.
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

35.
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

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

38.
The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
Leo Rosten

39.
We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
W. Somerset Maugham

40.
The first step in blogging is not writing them but reading them.
Jeff Jarvis

41.
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

42.
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
Stephen King

43.
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

44.
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

45.
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

46.
First you're an unknown, then you write one book and you move up to obscurity.
Martin Myers

47.
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

48.
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

49.
Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
Henry James

50.
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


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