I do not think you should read about writing while you are writing. — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
“Writing? Why should I be writing?! I have Internet for Pete's sake!” — Emma Shannon Copy Share Image
“The most difficult thing about writing; is writing the first line.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
“I was writing, writing all the time, in my head, looking out at the world.” — Bonnie Greer Copy Share Image
“I think the hardest thing about writing is writing." [Interview clip in the In Memoriam section of the 85th Academy Awards ceremony,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Preaching and writing - it's the same. Whether I'm writing to speak or writing to be read in a book, it's the… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are. — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
I never know what I am writing. The moment you know what you're writing, you're writing nothing worth reading. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
What is the best way to write? Each of us has to discover her own way by writing. Writing teaches writing. No… — Gail Sher Copy Share Image
“Writing is hard. Not as hard as not writing. Not writing is torturous, bloody, chaotic and a gruesome winless battle. A writer… — Jamie Weise Copy Share Image
“Don't say you're a writer if you're not writing. Even if you're writing, don't call yourself a writer. Say instead, 'I write.'… — Patti Digh Copy Share Image
Most of the time, when I'm writing, I'm writing for myself. I'm thinking, 'What will my character say at this time? What… — Katori Hall Copy Share Image
One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Blogging is different from both journal-writing and writing for print. It's more fun than either of those. The freedom to write whatever… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
Practise, practise, practise writing. Writing is a craft that requires both talent and acquired skills. You learn by doing, by making mistakes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is something magical about putting a problem in writing. It is almost as though by writing about what is wrong, you… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
I do want to work on writing, because writing's a skill. Writing is something that you can train yourself to know better.… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
In my mind, only one inviolable precept exists in terms of being a successful writer: you have to write. The unspoken sub-laws… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
I'm working on a number of different things. I'm working on a couple of TV things and I'm working on a couple… — Neil Burger Copy Share Image
Good writing is writing and rewriting and rewriting and rewriting. Sometimes, it happens to work right away, and that's amazing. But most… — Kate Beaton Copy Share Image
Write all the time. I believe in writing every day, at least a thousand words a day. We have a strange idea… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
The biggest pitfall to avoid is not writing. Not writing is really, really easy to do, especially if you're a young writer.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When you're writing - when I'm writing anyway - I'm writing out of different kinds of preoccupations and obsessions, different forms of… — W. S. Di Piero Copy Share Image
There's no really other way to learn writing than by writing. So accelerate that as much as you can. The more you… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
Woodworking requires a completely different kind of thinking and problem-solving ability than writing. With writing, you take a set of facts and… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
“A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
“But why do you write?— A: I am not one of those who think with an inky pen in their hand, much… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The way you start writing is by writing. Over and over again I have proven this to myself but I always forget… — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
“Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing, you’re a writer. Write like you’re a goddamn death… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
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