Best Quotes about Writing
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
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
Stephen King
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
Charles de Montesquieu
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
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
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.
Benjamin Disraeli
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
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
Truman Capote
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
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
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
First you're an unknown, then you write one book and you move up to obscurity.
Martin Myers
There's always something to write about. If there's not then you need to live life more aggressively.
Min Kim
All a good letter has to do is make you feel special.
Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata
It's not about the writing. It's about the feelings behind the words.
Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.
Edwin Schlossberg
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
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
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
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
Tom Bissell
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
You must not come lightly to the blank page.
Stephen King
It's not enough to create magic. You have to create a price for magic, too. You have to create rules.
Eric A. Burns
I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
Peter De Vries
We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
W. Somerset Maugham
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Thomas Mann
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
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
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
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
Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
Daphne du Maurier
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
Solomon Short
When you write things down, they sometimes take you places you hadn't planned.
Melanie Benjamin
Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
Jules Renard
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
Real Live Preacher
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Thomas Berger
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
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
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
Carol Burnett
The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
Leo Rosten
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
Keep writing. Keep doing it and doing it. Even in the moments when it's so hurtful to think about writing.
Heather Armstrong
I have never thought of writing as hard work, but I have worked hard to find a voice.
Randy Pausch
All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
Bobby Knight
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
H. G. Wells
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
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
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Jules Renard
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
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Josh Billings
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