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

2.
Vigorous writing is concise.
William Strunk Jr.

3.
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

4.
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

5.
Journalism is just a gun. It's only got one bullet in it, but if you aim right, that's all you need. Aim it right and you can blow a kneecap off the world.
Warren Ellis

6.
Writing well mean never having to say,'I guess you had to be there.'
Jef Mallett

7.
All a good letter has to do is make you feel special.
Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

8.
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

9.
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

10.
Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
Fran Lebowitz

11.
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

12.
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

13.
I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
Blaise Pascal

14.
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

15.
The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
Leo Rosten

16.
I have never thought of writing as hard work, but I have worked hard to find a voice.
Randy Pausch

17.
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Josh Billings

18.
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

19.
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

20.
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

21.
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

22.
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

23.
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

24.
First you're an unknown, then you write one book and you move up to obscurity.
Martin Myers

25.
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

26.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Samuel Johnson

27.
Maybe that's just what happens; you start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few jokes.
David Nicholls

28.
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

29.
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

30.
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

31.
I am a galley slave to pen and ink.
Honore de Balzac

32.
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
Truman Capote

33.
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
Charles de Montesquieu

34.
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

35.
You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despairûthe sense that you can never completely put on the page whatÆs in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page.
Stephen King

36.
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
Raymond Chandler

37.
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

38.
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
Ray Bradbury

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

40.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
Real Live Preacher

41.
See things as they are and write about them. DonÆt waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
Real Live Preacher

42.
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

43.
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

44.
I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
Samuel Goldwyn

45.
The cure for writer's cramp is writer's block.
Inigo DeLeon

46.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Thomas Berger

47.
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

48.
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
Sir Francis Bacon

49.
Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
Jules Renard

50.
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


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