Writing Quotes

Mik Everett

If a writer falls in love with you, you can never die.

Leonard Cohen

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

Tennessee Williams

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

Jen Knox

Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we truly grow as people.

Paulo Coelho

Tears are words that need to be written.. Paulo Coelho
Tears are words that need to be written.

Aristotle

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.. Aristotle
To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

Jonas Eriksson

Don't write to sell, write to tell.

Jorge Luis Borges

We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes.

Jack Kerouac

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

Ray Bradbury

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.. Ray Bradbury
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Neil Gaiman

Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing
Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.

Sylvia Plath

let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences. Sylvia Plath
let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences

Stephen King

you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.. Stephen King
you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

Joss Whedon

I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.

Daphne Du Maurier

Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.

Albert Camus

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.. Albert Camus
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

Isaac Asimov

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

Mark Twain

My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.. Mark Twain
My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.

Paul Valéry

Poems are never finished - just abandoned

Arthur Schopenhauer

One should use common words to say uncommon things

George R.R. Martin

Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.. George R.R. Martin
Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.

Maya Angelou

Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake..
Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.

Samuel Johnson

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

Jackie Collins

If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!

Umberto Eco

The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text.

Robert Penn Warren

Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.

Brian Clark

10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer

Write.
Write more.
Write even more.
Write even more than that.
Write when you don’t want to.
Write when you do.
Write when you have something to say.
Write when you don’t.
Write every day.
Keep writing.

E.M. Forster

A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.

Jack M. Bickham

Writers write. Everyone else makes excuses.

Charles Bukowski

There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.. Charles Bukowski
There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.

Anne Frank

Paper is more patient than man.

Epictetus

If you wish to be a writer, write.

Napoleon Hill

Goals are dreams with a deadline.. Napoleon Hill
Goals are dreams with a deadline.

Elizabeth J. Kolodziej

The music lets me see the story but the story doesn't let me write the words..
The music lets me see the story but the story doesn't let me write the words.

Brendan Behan

I am a drinker with writing problems.

Robert McLiam Wilson

All stories are love stories.

Jonathan Price

Start writing by thinking, not wrestling with words.

Paulo Coelho

Writing is easy: just stare at the screen of your computer until a tear drops on
Writing is easy: just stare at the screen of your computer until a tear drops on your keyboard.

C.K. Webb

Stop talking about it and just WRITE!

Cindi Lee

Write because you love to write.

James T. Farrell

If you let conditions stop you from working, they'll always stop you.

Phil Cousineau

Inspiration comes and goes, creativity is the result of practice.

Brian Raif

Art is the overflow of emotion into action.

W. Somerset Maugham

we do not write as we want but as we can

M. Kirin

Let your story grow. Let it surprise you, and it will certainly surprise your readers.. M.
Let your story grow. Let it surprise you, and it will certainly surprise your readers.

Alexei Maxim Russell

The highest privilege of being a writer is being able to say, 'open your mind to me and I'll take you to another world.

Stephen King

There's an old rule of theater that goes, 'If there's a gun on the mantel in
There's an old rule of theater that goes, 'If there's a gun on the mantel in Act I, it must go off in Act III.' The reverse is also true.

George Orwell

I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself,
I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus

Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.

Jo Linsdell

The hard part is putting one word after another.

Robert M. Drake

Look deeper through the telescope
and do not be afraid when the stars
collide towards the darkness,
because sometimes the most beautiful
things begin in chaos.

LeAnne Mechelle

I write because he needs to know.

Lawrence C. Connolly

Writing is something I do everyday. If I waited for inspiration, I’d never get anything done..
Writing is something I do everyday. If I waited for inspiration, I’d never get anything done.

M. Kirin

Yesterday is gone, and tomorrow is beyond our reach. The best time to write is now,
Yesterday is gone, and tomorrow is beyond our reach. The best time to write is now, in the present.

Crystal Woods

Write like no one is reading.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The Bible, most influential book, which have the ability to transform many lives.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Desire to learn.
Desire to read.
Desire to think.
Desire to write.

Glen Hirshberg

So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.

T. M. Bilderback

I write things that I would like to read myself.

Jill Telford

Don't just read to read. Read to understand.

E.A. Bucchianeri

The show must go on, and so must The Book.

Sylvia L'Namira

If you don't write, then read.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There are more writers who read than readers who write.

Munia Khan

My pen beats faster as I write with my heart

Stacey T. Hunt

Never give up. Dare to Dream. Dare to believe.. Stacey T. Hunt
Never give up. Dare to Dream. Dare to believe.

Jayme K.

Art does what reality cannot.

Rebecca Solnit

The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt.

D. Antoinette Foy

Love is wind for the soul

Lada Ray

Contemplation + action = breakthrough

Vishwas Mudagal

When you fail, get hurt, feel bad, but act on it! Everybody fails, but the ones who act are the ones who change the world!

Richard Marius

Here is a lesson to brand in fire across any young historian's mind: If you try to do too much, you will not do anything.

Crystal Woods

Every time I thought to, I wrote about you.. Crystal Woods
Every time I thought to, I wrote about you.

Anne Rice

Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is a book. There are many pages to be written.

Michael Bassey Johnson

As long as music survives, poetry will never die.. Michael Bassey Johnson
As long as music survives, poetry will never die.

A.A. Patawaran

Words are music to the ears, alone or together, with or without melody.. A.A. Patawaran
Words are music to the ears, alone or together, with or without melody.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

With our writings, we can right the world.

Paulo Coelho

In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those
In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those who decide to die?

Charlotte Eriksson

Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop.. Charlotte Eriksson
Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop.

Katerina Stoykova Klemer

Be nice to your children. They may grow up to be writers.

Yury Olesha

Writers are engineers of human souls.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Truth that is naked is the most beautiful.

Hans Christian Andersen

My life will be the best illustration of all my work.

Joy Fielding

Give a hundred writers the same idea and you'll get a hundred different stories.

N. Scott Momaday

Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

Don Trip

Every line I ever wrote is the realest shit I ever said.

Jeremy Clarkson

Column writing is like gas - it fills the available space.

Svetlana Alexievich

Слышу слова, выбираю их, а то, что силюсь произнести, - дальше слов, в другом измерении. Нужны какие-то неведомые звуки. Какие? Я их не знаю.

Svetlana Alexievich

But I don't just record a dry history of events and facts, I'm writing a history of human feelings.

Charles Bukowski

some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.. Charles Bukowski
some moments are nice, some are
nicer, some are even worth
writing
about.

Sylvia Plath

Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most
Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever.

Jennifer Salaiz

When you're missing a peice of yourself, aching, gut wrenching emptiness begins to take over. Until you find the link that completes your very soul, the feeling will never go away. Most people find a way to fill this void, material possessions, a string of relationships, affairs, food...I bear my soul, with words, for all to see.

Jeffrey McDaniel

There's two kinds of women-those you write poems about and those you don't.

Ernest Hemingway

I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and
I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

Douglas Adams

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.. Douglas Adams
I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

Mark Twain

Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the
Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Winston S. Churchill

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

Isaac Asimov

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

Howard Nemerov

Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.

Flannery O'Connor

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

Cornelia Funke

So what? All writers are lunatics!

William Goldman

Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.

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