Quotes About Writing

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

I am more the inspirational type of speller. I work on hunches rather than mere facts, and the result is sometimes open to criticism by purists.

Remember, it is no sign of weakness or defeat that your manuscript ends up in need of major surgery. This is a common occurrence in all writing, and among the best writers.

If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals.

If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.

Everyone has left me except my muse, that good nurse. She stays in my hand, a mild white mouse.

He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence.

It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.

His life was a book of his own writing, one orderly page after another.

Your legacy is being written by yourself. Make the right decisions.

The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page.

For all my longer works (i.e. the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them later on.

Write about the thing that scares you most or your most private confession and you'll never have a problem coming up with decent fiction.

Writing is a calling, not a choice.

I've written 17 novels, and I've found out that fiction can't keep up with real life.

One poem or story doesn't matter one way or the other. It's the process of writing and life that matters.

For writing, getting off our buts means getting on our butts-putting it into a chair and not moving from the chair for a set period of time.

If I had my life to live over, I would have liked to have ended up as a sportswriter.

A piece of writing is like a piece of magic. You create something out of nothing.

Because paper has more patience than people.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart

It is the duty of every father... to write fairy tales for his children.

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