Inspiring Quotes on Writing

8/3/2019 Inspiring Quotes on Writing

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Inspiring Quotes onWriting

Edited by Jeff Soares

Words are, of course, themost powerful drug used bymankindRudyard Kipling

Of making many books, thereis no end.Bible, Ecclesiastes 12:12

Writing is nothing more than a

guided dream.Jorge Luis Borges

Ideas are to literature whatlight is to painting.Paul Bourget

A well written life is almost asrare as a well spent one.Thomas Carlyle


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A good novel tells us the truthabout its hero but a bad noveltells us the truth about the

author.G.K. Chesterson

My homely definitions of proseand poetry; that is, prose =words in their best order;poetry= the best words in thebest order.Samuel Taylor Coleridge

All writing comes from thegrace of God.Ralph Waldo Emerson,

If a writer has to rob his

mother, he will not hesitate;the Ode on a Grecian Urnisworth any number of oldladies.William Faulkner

Often you must turn your

stylus to erase, if you hope towrite anything worth a secondreading.Horace, 35 30 BC


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A man may write at any time,if he will set himself doggedlyto it.

Samuel Johnson

He writes nothing whosewritings are not read.Martial, 1st Century AD

If you steal from one authorits plagiarism, if you steal frommany, its research.Wilson Mizner

Satire should, like a polishedrazor keen, would with a touchthat scarcely felt or seen.Mary Wortley Montagu

If theres a book you reallywant to read but it hasnt beenwritten yet, then you mustwrite it.Toni Morrison

True ease in writing comesfrom art, not chance.Alexander pope


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Our passions shape our books,repose writes them in theintervals.

Marcel Proust

An honest tale speeds bestbeing plainly told.Shakespeare

Keep away from books andfrom men who get their ideasfrom books, and your ownbooks will always be fresh.George Bernard Shaw

Of all those arts in which thewise excel, Natures chiefmasterpiece is writing well.

John Sheffield

Three hours a day willproduce as much as a manought to write.Anthony Trollope

There is no way of writing welland also of writing easily.Anthony Trollope


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Literature is a form ofpermanent insurrection.Mario Varga Llosa

Substitute "damn" every timeyou're inclined to write "very";your editor will delete it andthe writing will be just as itshould be.Mark Twain

If you would not be forgottenas soon as you are dead, eitherwrite something worth readingor do things worth writing.Benjamin FranklinIn Hollywood the woods are

full of people that learned towrite but evidently can't read.If they could read their stuff,they'd stop writing.Will RogersThere is creative reading aswell as creative writing.Ralph Waldo EmersonMy ideas usually come not atmy desk writing but in themidst of living.
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Anais NinThere is nothing to writing. All

you do is sit down at atypewriter and bleed.Ernest HemingwayI learned never to empty thewell of my writing, but alwaysto stop when there was stillsomething there in the deeppart of the well, and let it refillat night from the springs thatfed it.Ernest HemingwayWhen writing a novel a writershould create living people;

people not characters. Acharacter is a caricature.Ernest HemingwayWriting and travel broadenyour ass if not your mind and Ilike to write standing up.

Ernest HemingwayTelevision has raised writingto a new low.Samuel Goldwyn
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The profession of book writingmakes horse racing seem like a

solid, stable business.John SteinbeckGood writing is like awindowpane.George OrwellAll good writing is swimmingunder water and holding yourbreath.F. Scott FitzgeraldTrue ease in writing comesfrom art, not chance, as thosewho move easiest have learned

to dance.Alexander PopeWriting, to me, is simplythinking through my fingers.Isaac Asimov

If the writing is honest itcannot be separated from theman who wrote it.Tennessee WilliamsWhen I stop working the rest
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of the day is posthumous. I'monly really alive when I'mwriting.

Tennessee Williams

Writing is not necessarilysomething to be ashamed of,but do it in private and washyour hands afterwards.Robert A. HeinleinThat isn't writing at all, it'styping.Truman CapoteWriting has laws ofperspective, of light and shadejust as painting does, or music.

If you are born knowing them,fine. If not, learn them. Thenrearrange the rules to suityourself.Truman CapoteTo me, the greatest pleasure

of writing is not what it's about,but the inner music that wordsmake.Truman Capote
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Writing a novel is a terribleexperience, during which thehair often falls out and the

teeth decay.Flannery O'ConnorThe discipline of writingsomething down is the firststep toward making it happen.

Lee Iacocca

Nothing matters but thewriting. There has beennothing else worthwhile... astain upon the silence.Samuel BeckettAction is greater than writing.A good man is a nobler objectof contemplation than a greatauthor. There are but twothings worth living for: to dowhat is worthy of being written;and to write what is worthy ofbeing read.Ross PerotWriting is the only thing that,when I do it, I don't feel Ishould be doing something
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else.Gloria SteinemWriting crystallizes thoughtand thought produces action.Paul J. MeyerWriting fiction has become apriestly business in countriesthat have lost their faith.Gore VidalIn writing and politicking, itsbest not to think about it, justdo it.Gore VidalI look for ambiguity when I'm

writing because life isambiguous.Keith RichardsWithout words, without writingand without books there wouldbe no history, there could be

no concept of humanity.Hermann Hesse

There is an art ofreading, aswell as an art of thinking, and
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an art of writing.Clarence DayWriting in English is the mostingenious torture ever devisedfor sins committed in previouslives. The English readingpublic explains the reasonwhy.James JoyceFar more thought and care gointo the composition of anyprominent ad in a newspaperor magazine than go into thewriting of their features andeditorials.Marshall McLuhanWhen Shakespeare waswriting, he wasn't writing forstuff to lie on the page; it wassupposed to get up and movearound.Ken KeseyIt's a sad fact about ourculture that a poet can earnmuch more money writing ortalking about his art than he
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can by practicing it.W. H. AudenEasy reading is damn hardwriting.Nathaniel HawthorneWriting with you is the onlything that keeps me alive.David HackworthThe art of writing is the art ofdiscovering what you believe.Gustave FlaubertThe secret to being a writer isthat you have to write. It's notenough to think about writing

or to study literature or plan afuture life as an author. Youreally have to lock yourselfaway, alone, and get to work.Augusten Burroughs

Two hours of writing fiction

leaves this writer completelydrained. For those two hours hehas been in a different placewith totally different people.Ronald Dahl
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I am a drinker with writingproblems.

Brendan Behan

Writing is a dreadful labor, yetnot so dreadful as Idleness.Thomas CarlyleIf something in your writinggives support to people in theirlives, that's more than justentertainment-which is whatwe writers all struggle to do, totouch people.Dean KoontzWriting a novel is like making

love, but it's also like having atooth pulled. Pleasure and pain.Sometimes it's like making lovewhile having a tooth pulled.Dean KoontzI never discuss a novel while

I'm writing it, for fear thattalking about it will diminishmy desire to write it.Dean Koontz
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Most critical writing is driveland half of it is dishonest. It is ashort cut to oblivion, anyway.

Thinking in terms of ideasdestroys the power to think interms of emotions andsensations.Raymond ChandlerWriting is like getting married.One should never commitoneself until one is amazed atone's luck.Iris MurdochI don't care who you are.When you sit down to write thefirst page of your screenplay, in

your head, you're also writingyour Oscar acceptancespeech.Nora EphronYou fail only if you stopwriting.

Ray BradburyYou must stay drunk onwriting so reality cannotdestroy you.Ray Bradbury
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Writing is hard work and badfor the health.

E. B. White

Writing is an act of faith, not atrick ofgrammar.E. B. WhiteThe difference betweenwriting a book and being ontelevision is the differencebetween conceiving a child andhaving a baby made in a testtube.Norman MailerWriting books is the closest

men ever come tochildbearing.Norman MailerWriters sometimes give upwhat is most strange andwonderful about their writing -

soften their roughest edges - toaccommodate themselvestoward a group response.Mary Oliver
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I've always believed in writingwithout a collaborator, becausewhere two people are writing

the same book, each believeshe gets all the worry and onlyhalf the royalties.Agatha ChristieWriting the last page of thefirst draft is the most enjoyablemoment in writing. It's one ofthe most enjoyable moments inlife, period.Nicholas SparksWriting a book of poetry is likedropping a rose petal down theGrand Canyon and waiting for

the echo.Don MarquisIf you want to get rich fromwriting, write the sort of thingthat's read by persons whomove their lips when they're

reading to themselves.Don MarquisThe desire to write grows withwriting.
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Desiderius ErasmusLiterature is the art of writing

something that will be readtwice; journalism what will begrasped at once.Cyril ConnollyOne of the hardest thingsabout writing lyrics is to makethe lyrics sit on the music insuch a way that you're notaware there was a writerthere.Stephen SondheimWriting is like prostitution.First you do it for love, and

then for a few close friends,and then for money.MoliereWriting is the most fun youcan have by yourself.Terry Pratchett

I write lustily and humorously.It isn't calculated; it's the way Ithink. I've invented a writingstyle that expresses who I am.
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Erica JongWhen I start writing songs and

it turns into an overlybelabored intellectual process,I just throw it out.Alanis MorissetteI like myself better when I'mwriting regularly.Willie NelsonWriting has nothing to do withcommunication betweenperson and person, only withcommunication betweendifferent parts of a person'smind.

Rebecca WestI consider criticism merely apreliminary excitement, astatement of things a writerhas to clear up in his own headsometime or other, probably

antecedent to writing; of novalue unless it come to fruit inthe created work later.Ezra Pound
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Learn as much by writing asby reading.Lord ActonWriting is the supremesolace.W. Somerset MaughamThere are three rules forwriting a novel. Unfortunately,no one knows what they are.W. Somerset MaughamGood writing comes from goodreading.Charles KuraltWriting is nothing more than a

guided dream.Jorge Luis BorgesFor a man who no longer hasa homeland, writing becomes aplace to live.Theodor AdornoWriting is a form of therapy;sometimes I wonder how allthose who do not write,compose or paint can manage
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to escape the madness,melancholia, the panic and fearwhich is inherent in a human

situation.Graham GreeneI felt that I had to write. Evenif I had never been published, Iknew that I would go onwriting, enjoying it andexperiencing the challenge.Gwendolyn BrooksA ratio of failures is built intothe process of writing. Thewastebasket has evolved for areason.Margaret AtwoodFor me, life is writing and I cando it anywhere. It doesn'tmatter where I am. I listen. Iwrite. I live.Maynard James KeenanWriting is the only professionwhere no one considers youridiculous if you earn nomoney.Jules Renard
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Writing is an extremeprivilege but it's also a gift. It's

a gift to yourself and it's a giftof giving a story to someone.Amy TanWriting is a question of findinga certain rhythm. I compare itto the rhythms of jazz. Much ofthe time life is a sort ofrhythmic progression of threecharacters. If one tells oneselfthat life is like that, one feels itless arbitrary.Francoise SaganWriting criticism is to writing

fiction and poetry as huggingthe shore is to sailing in theopen sea.John UpdikeBeing so honest in my writingis cathartic.

Brian MolkoOriginality is not seen in singlewords or even in sentences.Originality is the sum total of a
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man's thinking or his writing.Isaac Bashevis Singer

Writing about music is likedancing about architecture.Laurie AndersonGood writing gives energy,whatever it is about.Marilyn HackerThe pleasure that I take inwriting gets me interested inwriting a poem. It's not astatement about what I thinkanybody else should be doing.For me, it's an interesting

tension between interior andexterior.Marilyn HackerOf all the ways of acquiringbooks, writing them oneself isregarded as the most

praiseworthy method. Writersare really people who writebooks not because they arepoor, but because they aredissatisfied with the books
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which they could buy but donot like.Walter BenjaminThe beautiful feeling afterwriting a poem is on the wholebetter even than after sex, andthat's saying a lot.Anne SextonWriting is not the easiest wayto make a living. Your worklong hours, usually all byyourself. It is not a way tomake money.Stephen AmbroseI think some of the best

modern writing comes nowfrom travelers.Michael Palin
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