Quotes About Writing

book finally took shape. The contributions of Susan Ginsburg, my agent, are incalculable and very much appreciated

It was easy for you to say these things, since you either knew you were not writing to Luther, but for the general public, or you did not reflect that it was Luther you were writing against, whom I hope you allow nonetheless to have some acquaintance with Holy Writ and some judgment in respect of it.

It is a common saying that a letter is a dead messenger; for it can give no more than it hath. And no letter is written so exactly, that there is nothing lacking.

Your writings and head are disordered and mixed up, so that it is exceedingly annoying to read and difficult to remember what you write.

Although we cannot all be writers, we all want to be critics.

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

If a man writes clearly enough," said Hemingway, "anyone can see if he fakes.

I don't believe in "writers block." Lower your standards and keep writing. You can always go back later and make it better. Unless your name is Harlan Ellison, in which case your sentences come out perfectly parsed each time.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.

No one has ever framed a better critique of Roman imperial power than the words put into the mouths of rebels against Rome by Roman writers themselves.

Writing something down cannot change in any significant way our mental representation of it, for it is the mental representation that gives birth to the written form, not vice versa.

Mary Connealy is a Carol Award winner and a RITA Award finalist. An author

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others.

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better

Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death--fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous constant.

Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.

I don't like to write, but I love to have written.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

Inexpressible Love: To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never cause me to be loved by the one I love, to know that writing compensates for nothing..

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.

I'm a writer," she declared before she drained the glass. "I should learn about everything.

The world before us is a postcard, and I imagine the story we are writing on it.