Motivational Quotes

Writing

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

- Jef Mallett

Best Quotes about Writing

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

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

Raymond Chandler

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

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.

Benjamin Disraeli

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

Truman Capote

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

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

Bobby Knight

I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.

Real Live Preacher

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

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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

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

Victor Hugo

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

Randy Pausch

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Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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The cure for writer's cramp is writer's block.

Inigo DeLeon

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Vigorous writing is concise.

William Strunk Jr.

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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

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

Leo Rosten

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You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

Ray Bradbury

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

Stephen King

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Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Heather Armstrong

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It's not about the writing. It's about the feelings behind the words.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

28.

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

Edwin Schlossberg

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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

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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

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I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

Peter De Vries

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

Jules Renard

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Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you.

Real Live Preacher

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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

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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

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

Tom Bissell

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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

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An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.

Daphne du Maurier

41.

Not every story has explosions and car chases. That's why they have nudity and espionage.

Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum

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If you want to write you must have faith in yourself. Faith enough to believe that if a thing is true about you, it is likely true about many people. And if you can have faith in your integrity and your motives, then you can write about yourself without fear.

Real Live Preacher

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

Martin Myers

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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

Robert Heinlein

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