Quotes About Writing

These things sift through our minds, with the years, like sand, and find their way out in ink.

I am a very particular person about having all I write printed as I write it. I require to see a proof, a revise, a re-revise, and a double re-revise, or fourth-proof rectified impression of all my productions, especially verse. A misprint kills a sensitive author. An intentional change of his text murders him. No wonder so many poets die young!

Being an author is having angels whisper in your ear — and devils, too.

The pen is a tree whose fruit is expression.

My only cure for writer's block is insomnia.

If I'm trying to sleep, the ideas won't stop. If I'm trying to write, there appears a barren nothingness.

Authorship is exhibitionism, and readers a species of voyeur.

Being an author is being in charge of your own personal insane asylum.

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In writing, you either stick with it and keep revising until it's done, no matter how long it takes — or set it aside a few years until you've distanced yourself enough to get it right. The wait is just as excruciating as the work.

Writing helps keep me sane — or at least a pen's length from insane.

The best writers always make poetry, whether it comes out prose or verse.

He transforms every bottle of ink into a scrolling trail of metaphors.

The universe will do the writing for you, if you just listen closely enough.

Writing — a race to the typewriter keys before that brilliant idea flees

Whenever the extracts from a living writer begin to multiply fast in the papers, without obvious reason, there is a new book or a new edition coming. The extracts are ground-bait.

If I fall asleep with a pen in my hand, don't remove it — I may be writing in my dreams.

There are living days and there are writing days. But you can never have the writing without the living. And if you've got writer's block you'd better go have yourself a day of living to fix it, rather than beating on an idling brain.

You should write and read all day...

For with me writing is not a means of livelihood, not an occupation or trade, but a disease. I was born not with blood, but with printer's ink in my veins. To me, to write is an imperative necessity which may not be denied.

A harsh critique is a pen stab through the heart — and the resultant inkbleed.

They'll find ink in my veins and blood on my typewriter keys.

One ought to write only when one leaves a piece of one's flesh in the inkpot each time one dips one's pen.

Paper endures everything.