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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
Writing Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Writing

1.
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

2.
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

3.
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

4.
Writing well mean never having to say,'I guess you had to be there.'
Jef Mallett

5.
Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
Jules Renard

6.
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

7.
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

8.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Jules Renard

9.
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

10.
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

11.
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

12.
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

13.
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

14.
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

15.
The cure for writer's cramp is writer's block.
Inigo DeLeon

16.
Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
Fran Lebowitz

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

18.
It's not enough to create magic. You have to create a price for magic, too. You have to create rules.
Eric A. Burns

19.
First you're an unknown, then you write one book and you move up to obscurity.
Martin Myers

20.
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

21.
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

22.
You must not come lightly to the blank page.
Stephen King

23.
If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.
Elaine Liner

24.
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

25.
In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
Pliny the Elder

26.
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

27.
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

28.
We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
W. Somerset Maugham

29.
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

30.
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
Ray Bradbury

31.
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

32.
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
Stephen King

33.
This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two.
George Burns

34.
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
George Ade

35.
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
Carol Burnett

36.
I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
Blaise Pascal

37.
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

38.
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

39.
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

40.
Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.
Stanislaw J. Lec

41.
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

42.
Even writers need relief from words.
Sarah Vowell

43.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Samuel Johnson

44.
The first step in blogging is not writing them but reading them.
Jeff Jarvis

45.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
H. G. Wells

46.
Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
Henry James

47.
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

48.
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

49.
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

50.
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


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