Writing Quotes

18562 Writing quotes by 6643 unique authors

You'd better discover a more important motive than publication for your work or else you'll go crazy. My sense is that you'll be writers only… — Unknown Author
My notion of a failed writing workshop is when everybody comes out replicating the teacher and imitating as closely as possible the great original at… — Nicholas Delbanco
I have just been to a city in the West, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for poets. The whole… — Robert Frost
A creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters. — Richard Hugo
Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers. — Wallace Stegner
A student brings something to discuss, saying, "I don't know whether this is really good, or whether I should throw it in the wastebasket." The… — William Stafford
If you write well, you don't have to dress funny. — James Dickey
Whenever you write, whatever you write, never make the mistake of assuming the audience is any less intelligent than you are. — Rod Serling
I loathe writing. On the other hand I'm a great believer in money. — S. J. Perelman
The only certainty about writing and trying to be a writer is that it has to be done, not dreamed of or planned and never… — Janet Frame
We cannot write well or truly but what we write with gusto. — Henry David Thoreau
The monotony of staying in one place is the best thing for writing a novel. Having regular habits, a kind of security, but especially no… — Paul Theroux
That's one thing I like about Hollywood. The writer is there revealed in his ultimate corruption. He asks no praise, because his praise comes to… — Raymond Chandler
Getting even is one reason for writing. — William H. Gass
If you feel yourself to be a full member in the world, you probably won't turn to writing, because other methods of communication, more direct… — Margot Livesey
The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is… — Anne Lamott
Our writing equipment takes part in forming our thoughts. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The only thing I can say that is not bullshit is that you do have to learn to write in a way that you would… — Unknown Author
This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize, to create fiction, but at… — Mario Vargas Llosa
Let me tell you about my day. I get up at 8 o'clock in the morning. At 8:30 am, I leave the house and I… — Thomas Harris
People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write. — Kurt Vonnegut
The reason I'm here today, the reason I own a brand new Harley-Davidson motorcycle and the reason I have a big log cabin and I… — Dan Aykroyd
We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what you will. Why?… — Harry Crews
Writing well is the best revenge. — Dorothy Parker
Whether it is done quickly or slowly, however splendid the results, the process of writing fiction is inherently, inevitably, indistinguishable from wasting time. — Deborah Eisenberg

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