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Writing quotes

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

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

Detail makes the difference between boring and terrific writing. It�s the difference between a pencil sketch and a lush oil painting. As a writer, words are your paint. Use all the colors.

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

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.

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

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.

I am a galley slave to pen and ink.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

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

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

The key to non-anxious sermon-writing is that it�s not about me. It�s 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 said�' 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.

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.

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

Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

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

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.

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.

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

There are a lot of people who can't write and maybe shouldn't write.

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

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

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.

Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.

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

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.

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

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

You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair–the sense that you can never completely put on the page what’s 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.

You must not come lightly to the blank page.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

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

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

We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.

There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

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.

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

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

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.

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.

I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.

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.

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.

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.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Vigorous writing is concise.

Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

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.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

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.

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