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Quotes About Writing

The emotional findings, then, suggest that to gain the most benefit from writing about life's traumas, acknowledge the negative but celebrate the positive.
~ James W. Pennebaker
I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
~ Isaac Asimov
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
~ Thomas Carlyle
I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguays dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued writing about them from my various places of exile.
~ Mario Benedetti
I write mostly positive reviews. I don't write about places that don't interest me.
~ Jonathan Gold
Because of the wonderfully positive response to 'Life's That Way,' I am considering writing some more autobiographical stuff - maybe another book. I don't know. It doesn't help that I'm lazy.
~ Jim Beaver
It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.
~ Gerald Brenan
It's the writers' job to make it positive. It's my job to make it real.
~ Lee Pace
The one thing that I always got positive reinforcement for from teachers, who really changed my life, was the written word.
~ Anna Quindlen
Being a good writer may result in your being nicer to more people, having a bigger positive impact.
~ Marty Nemko
I like to think I'm positive and optimistic about things generally, but what I write does tend towards the darker end of the spectrum.
~ Tim Lebbon
The structure of a 'writing schedule' is only there as a frame. You provide the image, the emotion, and the sentiment in your own time.
~ Margaret Aranda
One of the way to get attention is to write a book titled, "How to get attention.
~ Vikrmn, Corpkshetra
Writing is the most powerful weapon on earth.It can change minds and stir souls.
~ D. Anne Paris, Driven By Love
Every sacred soul must walk and keep the way of God in the wilderness for years, to begin the sacred writings.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Sadly, we can't live forever. But we can write something that will.
~ T.N. Suarez, The Limbo Tree
You don't have INSOMNIA. You're a writer with an unfinished book!
~ T.N. Suarez, The Limbo Tree
As writers, we should remind ourselves, and each other, that Jane Austen and JK Rowling got rejected by publishers, too.
~ Joanne Van Leerdam
We write to shed our sorrows and give strength to our spirit.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block.
~ Ryan Lilly
I am determined to write daily.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Writings are thoughts in a defined moment.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
When you write, you put your thoughts in the public space. You get both positive and negative feedback.
~ Ravi Subramanian
Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.
~ Gilles Deleuze