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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 Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Writing

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

2.
It's not enough to create magic. You have to create a price for magic, too. You have to create rules.
Eric A. Burns

3.
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
Stephen King

4.
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

5.
The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
Leo Rosten

6.
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

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.
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

9.
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

10.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Thomas Berger

11.
I have never thought of writing as hard work, but I have worked hard to find a voice.
Randy Pausch

12.
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

13.
There's always something to write about. If there's not then you need to live life more aggressively.
Min Kim

14.
Keep writing. Keep doing it and doing it. Even in the moments when it's so hurtful to think about writing.
Heather Armstrong

15.
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.
Benjamin Disraeli

16.
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

17.
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
Sir Francis Bacon

18.
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

19.
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

20.
Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
Jules Renard

21.
Detail makes the difference between boring and terrific writing. ItÆs the difference between a pencil sketch and a lush oil painting. As a writer, words are your paint. Use all the colors.
Rhys Alexander

22.
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

23.
Not every story has explosions and car chases. That's why they have nudity and espionage.
Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum

24.
People do tell a writer things that they don't tell others. I don't know why, unless it is that having read one or two of his books they feel on peculiarly intimate terms with him; or it may be that they dramatize themselves and, seeing themselves as it were as characters in a novel, are ready to be as open with him as they imagine the characters of his invention are.
W. Somerset Maugham

25.
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Josh Billings

26.
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

27.
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
Tom Bissell

28.
The first step in blogging is not writing them but reading them.
Jeff Jarvis

29.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Thomas Mann

30.
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

31.
Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.
Stanislaw J. Lec

32.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
Solomon Short

33.
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
Stephen King

34.
It's not about the writing. It's about the feelings behind the words.
Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

35.
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

36.
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

37.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
H. G. Wells

38.
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

39.
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

40.
When you write things down, they sometimes take you places you hadn't planned.
Melanie Benjamin

41.
Vigorous writing is concise.
William Strunk Jr.

42.
You must not come lightly to the blank page.
Stephen King

43.
If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.
Elaine Liner

44.
I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
Peter De Vries

45.
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

46.
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

47.
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

48.
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

49.
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
George Ade

50.
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


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