Writers and writing Quotes · Page 3

Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.

— Matthew Arnold

Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in…

— Anne McCaffrey

Writing is the hardest work in the world not involving heavy lifting.

— Pete Hamill

“It would be better to give up the notion of writing until you are better prepared. Now it's time to be living.…

— Sherwood Anderson

Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down.

— John Steinbeck

The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.

— Ernest Hemingway

All the information you need can be given in dialogue.

— Elmore Leonard

Read, read read. Read everything.

— William Faulkner

“Many writers write because they’ve been there, seen that, did it and burnt their fingers”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

There is freedom in being a writer and writing. It is fulfilling your function. I used to think freedom meant doing whatever…

— Natalie

“If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“Passionate attraction to someone of the opposite sex will make a hero or a fool of a novelist each time.”

— Roman Payne

All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.

— George Orwell

Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

— Ernest Hemingway

Those who write clearly have readers.

— Albert Camus

“You can edit what you write. Why not edit what you say? If it hurts somebody, you can still offer an apology…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“Vengeance is ours saith the Lord and the writers.”

— Stanley Christopher

“How do you feel when you read stuff written by dead authors? A visit by a ghost?”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

Fiction is about stuff that's screwed up.

— Nancy Kress

Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing…

— John Steinbeck

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day.

— Orson Scott Card

Writing a novel is like heading out over the open sea in a small boat. It helps, if you have a plan…

— John Gardner

“Don't believe in everything that is written. Not everything that is written is true”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

— Gene Fowler

I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first…

— James A. Michener