Quotes About Writing

I write to reach eternity

Remember to have a little faith. When you die, I believe, God isn't going to ask you what you published. God's going to ask you what you wrote.

If I'm writing, at least I don't feel as paralyzed.

As I write, My fingers tap tap the keys the way Ravi Shankar's fingers pluck and strum the strings of his sitar.

Fill your papers with the breathings of your heart.

Writing is more than a gift. It is a struggle that blesses those who see it through to the end.

If you can't write a book, write a chapter. If you can't do that, write a page, a sentence or a word. For it is from a single word that books are made.

No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.

No writing is a waste of time – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you have learned something. It has done you good.

I don't necessarily self-identify as a writer, 'cause it implies a certain level of intelligence.

Elizabeth Hay has intelligence coming out of her fingertips - integrity, insight, and wonder in every paragraph of her writing.She connects. She stirs and provokes.

I don't feel like I have the intelligence to really inhabit a consistently high level of prose.

Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.

I like to think I've written something worth reading when I cry the tears of the characters.

Can a selfish egocentric jealous and unimaginative female write a damn thing worthwhile?

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters - the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably; a kind, therefore, much affected by those who cannot acceptably write any kind.

The best part of writing is not the communication of knowledge to other people, but the acquisition and synthesizing of knowledge for oneself.

Escribir es renunciar a lo que uno es y ponerse al servicio de vidas ajenas que te susurran al oído.

La motivación para escribir un buen libro la da el tener algo importante que contar.

Writing is self-reinforcing. Don't make a fetish out of it, and don't surrender to the myth of the garret, or the myth of the chained muse. It's like playing the guitar, or practicing taekwondo, or having sex. The more you do, the better you get. The better you get, the better it feels. The better it feels, the more you want to do.

You feel that if only you could make yourself sit down at a typewriter you could give shape to what seems merely a chain reaction of pointless disasters.

You never stopped thinking of yourself as a writer biding his time in the Department of Factual Verification. But between the job and the life there wasn't much time left over for emotion recollected in tranquillity.