Writing Quotes

18562 Writing quotes by 6643 unique authors

While there is no quick fix for instant, pain-free creativity, creative recovery (or discovery) is a teachable, trackable spiritual process. Each of us is complex… — Julia Cameron
This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it. Some days you don't want… — Natalie Goldberg
Here's the first major lesson: Writing is not an activity. It's not something you sit down at the keyboard, and just start doing. That's called… — Jeff Bollow
Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible — Barack Obama
Travel Far, Pay No Fare... a book can take you anywhere. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
A lamp can only light another lamp when it continues to burn in its own flame. — Rabindranath Tagore
The truth of the matter is that about 99 percent of teaching is making the students feel interestedin the material. Then the other 1 percent… — Noam Chomsky
All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas. — Robert Frost
He writes nothing whose writings are not read. — Martial
A new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet — Abraham Lincoln
Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration — James D. Watson
Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods. — Neil Postman
You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort. That is the problem with modernink from a bottle. You do not have… — Amy Tan
Writing should be meaningful for children, Y an intrinsic need should be aroused in them, and Y writing should be incorporated into a task that… — Lev S. Vygotsky
There is no better feeling than when you write something you know is a piece of you and that, at some point, is going to… — Alanis Morissette
The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting words on the… — Anne Enright
Only bad writers think that their work is really good. — Anne Enright
Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how "real" your… — Anne Enright
The more you read, the more you will write. The better the stuff you read, the better the stuff you will write. — Annie Dillard
If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put… — Anton Chekhov
I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end. — Barbara Tuchman
When I was 8, I was reading a book in which it was snowing. When I looked outside, I expected there to be snow on… — Candace Bushnell
Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of,… — Cassandra Clare
Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult… — Ernest Hemingway
It's not enough to create magic. You have to create a price for magic, too. You have to create rules. — Eric Burns

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