Quotes About Writing

The alphabet was invented in Iraq, so it's a cool place.

This poem was meant to be unwritten. But I am writing it now and have thereby changed destiny.

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.

Once in a while I catch myself wondering whether I would have found the courage to write if I had not started to write when I was too young to know what was good for me.

The novelist is more a marathon runner than long-distance runner and the kind of courage it takes working in such isolation cannot be underestimated. I really respect my fellow writers on this front.

Write what you know. Write what you can't forget. Write to give yourself courage and others hope.

I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling at the Sydney newspaper where my dad worked as a proofreader.

I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student of the world.

I unfolded the note, and it took me a few seconds to decipher Adrian's writing. If he did write me a dating proposal, I really hoped he would type it.

Literature can teach us how to live before we live, and how to die before we die. I believe that writing is practice for death, and for every (other) transformation human beings encounter.

Death, death. Now I won't be able to write my beautiful memoirs.

I am not afraid of death threats, but I am appalled that so many people are capable of so much wrong spelling and fractured grammar!

Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from my desk at night.

To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn't really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.

I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest.

Never be sincere - sincerity is the death of writing.

Poets are interested mostly in death and commas.

I always run into these Ph.D.s. They write and write and write about sustainable development. Then these guys ask me, 'But, how do you do it?' They are scared to death to do anything.

I used to be afraid of two things - being alone and not being able to write. Since Albert's death, I don't care about writing or about other people.

I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.

Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help as it keeps you from worrying.

if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading