Writing Quote by Anonymous

“In the manner of one recognizing a line from a familiar poem in a strange book.”

— Neil Gaiman

“To God he jotted several lines. How my mind has struggled to make coherent sense. I have not been too good at it. But…

— Saul Bellow

“Words, I’ve come to learn, are pulleys through time. Portals into other minds. Without words, what remains? Indecipherable customs. Strange rites. Blighted hearts. Without…

— Alena Graedon

“During those days, both the bed and my little rickety table were swimming in notes and scribbled-over manuscripts that I took turns working on,…

— Knut Hamsun

“Until you begin to write, then you shall know the wonders of the written word.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Straining the mind, wrinkling the brow, We write, write, write, Without respite Or hope of praise in the future or now.”

— Anton Chekhov

“I wrote about the things I discovered along the way and about how whether we believe it or not, everything we need to succeed…

— Andrew Kendall

“writing is perilous, as you can’t always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.”

— Jojo Moyes

“...perhaps the sweetest moment in writing is the arrival of that idea for a book which never has to be written, which is never…

— Julian Barnes

“Writing, in its noblest function, is the attempt to unerase, to unearth, to find the primitive picture again, ours, the one that frightens us.”

— Hélène Cixous

“Furthermore, the initial page, always crucial, passed every test, with its promises and divisions, its portentous opening paragraph like the great door of a…

— William H. Gass

“No kind of writing lodges itself so deeply in our memory, echoing there for the rest of our lives, as the books that we…

— William Zinsser