Writing Quote by Carol Morgan

“A sensible person does not read a novel as a task. He reads it as a diversion. He is prepared to interest himself in…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“A writer is merely a reader that had the guts to be read, and, heard.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“no writing is a waste of time--no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work.”

— Brenda Ueland

“A writer who does not write is a deplorable thing, like an emaciated dog lost from home.”

— Wesley D. Gray

“A writer lives, at least, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies…

— William Sansom

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

— George Orwell

“Write, even if you have a twinge, a doubt, a fear, a block, a noisy neighbor, a sick cat, thirteen unpublished stories, and a…

— Eric Maisel

“I don't sit here and make these stories up. They are delivered to me, over time, by some relentless and shadowy demand. Trust me,…

— Julian Lorr

“... writing is about telling the truth. We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not…

— Anne Lamott

“Writing is all at once an exploration of what is, and what is not. Of the known, and the unknown. A journey into the…

— Madelaine Standing

“But if one wants to be primarily a writer, then, in our society, one is an animal that is tolerated but not encouraged --…

— George Orwell

“Writing is a dog’s life, but the only one worth living.”

— Gustave Flaubert