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Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
- Fran Lebowitz
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Best Quotes about Writing

1.
I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
Samuel Goldwyn

2.
There are a lot of people who can't write and maybe shouldn't write.
Sarah Hepola

3.
I have never thought of writing as hard work, but I have worked hard to find a voice.
Randy Pausch

4.
Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
Henry James

5.
It's not about the writing. It's about the feelings behind the words.
Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

6.
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

7.
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

8.
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

9.
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
Carol Burnett

10.
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

11.
You must not come lightly to the blank page.
Stephen King

12.
Writing well mean never having to say,'I guess you had to be there.'
Jef Mallett

13.
I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worries and only half the royalties.
Agatha Christie

14.
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

15.
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

16.
We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
W. Somerset Maugham

17.
Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment.
Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

18.
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

19.
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

20.
This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two.
George Burns

21.
Even writers need relief from words.
Sarah Vowell

22.
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

23.
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

24.
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

25.
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

26.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
Real Live Preacher

27.
Not every story has explosions and car chases. That's why they have nudity and espionage.
Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum

28.
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

29.
First you're an unknown, then you write one book and you move up to obscurity.
Martin Myers

30.
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

31.
All a good letter has to do is make you feel special.
Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

32.
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

33.
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

34.
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

35.
When you write things down, they sometimes take you places you hadn't planned.
Melanie Benjamin

36.
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

37.
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

38.
Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.
Stanislaw J. Lec

39.
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

40.
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

41.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Thomas Berger

42.
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

43.
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

44.
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

45.
I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
Peter De Vries

46.
If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.
Victor Hugo

47.
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.
Edwin Schlossberg

48.
The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
Leo Rosten

49.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Samuel Johnson

50.
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
Stephen King


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