Best Writing Life Quotes

43 Writing Life quotes by 39 unique authors

Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more driven by profits… — Paul Theroux
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are. — Gore Vidal
Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect… — Stephen King
Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about. — Thomas McGuane
And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and… — Ray Bradbury
Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation. — Ray Bradbury
What do you want? What are you willing to give up to get it? Writing requires you make sacrifices. Be prepared to work hard to… — Sandra Brown
I have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that… — Stephen King
Writing is the great invention of the world. — Abraham Lincoln
Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed. — Ray Bradbury
Hardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out of twenty are… — Ursula K. Le Guin
There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is… — Elwyn Brooks White
Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest. — Rod Serling
A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this. — Jane Smiley
Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life. — Jon Katz
I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels. But… — Ben Okri
Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks. — Pat Conroy

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