Best Quotes about Writing
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
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
It's not enough to create magic. You have to create a price for magic, too. You have to create rules.
Eric A. Burns
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
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
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 you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
Stephen King
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
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
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
I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
Peter De Vries
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
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
I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
Samuel Goldwyn
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The cure for writer's cramp is writer's block.
Inigo DeLeon
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
There's always something to write about. If there's not then you need to live life more aggressively.
Min Kim
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Thomas Mann
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
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Thomas Berger
All a good letter has to do is make you feel special.
Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Jules Renard
This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two.
George Burns
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
When you write things down, they sometimes take you places you hadn't planned.
Melanie Benjamin
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
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
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
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
Solomon Short
I am a galley slave to pen and ink.
Honore de Balzac
Writing well mean never having to say,'I guess you had to be there.'
Jef Mallett
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
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
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
Tom Bissell
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
Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
Daphne du Maurier
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
George Ade
There are a lot of people who can't write and maybe shouldn't write.
Sarah Hepola
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
We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
W. Somerset Maugham
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
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
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
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
You must not come lightly to the blank page.
Stephen King
Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
Jules Renard
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
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
Ray Bradbury
Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
Fran Lebowitz
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