Best Writing Quotes

23 Best Writing quotes by 21 unique 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
The best writing comes out when you find yourself broken. Your heart is ripped open and all the feelings spill out into a beautiful mess… — Shannen Wrass
As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism. — Dennis Potter
It's pretty remarkable how many people the show touches...I think we are very lucky in that way so, I love when the fans come up… — Ellen Pompeo

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