Best Writing Quotes

23 quotes by 21 authors

• I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we actually touch in… — Robert Frost
• The best writing deadlines are poverty and death. — Victor LaValle
• Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing. — Jerry Spinelli
• The best writing is certainly when you are in love — Ernest Hemingway
• My best writing has always been in journals. — Thomas Merton
• The golden rule of writing is to write what you care about. If you care about your topic, you'll do your best writing, and then… — Jerry Spinelli
• The best writing has no lace on its sleeves. — Walt Whitman
• I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned. — Wally Lamb
• When I was younger I used to get my best writing done at night, but now it has to be during the day. I usually… — Antony Beevor
• The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you. — Michael Arndt
• Cinema, which is influenced by every single part of life, is direct and reaches you immediately. And writing - the best writing is complex ideas… — Alex Kapranos
• I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart. — Terrence McNally
• The best writing advice I had was [in] ‘Heinlein’s Rules for Writers’ by (American science fiction author) Robert A. Heinlein. His first rule is that… — George R. R. Martin
• I just personally feel like the best writing for actors exists in cable television. — Donal Logue
• The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader. — Ben Okri
• Since I'm a fan of collections and anthologies, believe that the best writing often shines in shards and galloping stretches, I never find myself lobbying… — James Wolcott
• The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a guided opportunity, through the best writing of the past, to… — Flannery O'Connor
• You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about… — Ernest Hemingway
• The best writing is rewriting. — Elwyn Brooks White
• To Grandma, for being my first editor and giving me the best writing advice I’ve ever received: “Christopher, I think you should wait until you’re… — Chris Colfer

Who Wrote These Best Writing Quotes

21 authors contributed a total of 23 Best Writing Quotes as follows:

• 2 Best Writing Quotes by Jerry Spinelli
• 2 Best Writing Quotes by Ernest Hemingway
• 1 Best Writing Quote by Victor LaValle
• 1 Best Writing Quote by Thomas Merton
• 1 Best Writing Quote by Walt Whitman
• 1 Best Writing Quote by Wally Lamb
• 1 Best Writing Quote by Antony Beevor
• 1 Best Writing Quote by Michael Arndt
• 1 Best Writing Quote by Alex Kapranos
• 1 Best Writing Quote by Terrence McNally
• 1 Best Writing Quote by George R. R. Martin
• 1 Best Writing Quote by Donal Logue
• 1 Best Writing Quote by Ben Okri
• 1 Best Writing Quote by James Wolcott
• 1 Best Writing Quote by Flannery O'Connor
• 1 Best Writing Quote by Elwyn Brooks White
• 1 Best Writing Quote by Chris Colfer
• 1 Best Writing Quote by Shannen Wrass
• 1 Best Writing Quote by Dennis Potter
• 1 Best Writing Quote by Ellen Pompeo
• 1 Best Writing Quote by Robert Frost