Quotes About Writing

It indicates possession for plural nouns, between the end of the plural word and the s that follows, as in children's. Except when the word ends in an s, in which case it should come at the end of the word, with no additional s added ("the books' covers").

Or we reference Winston Churchill, who was famously reported to have written "This is the kind of tedious/arrant nonsense up with which I will not put," in response to an overweening staffer having removed a preposition from some of his writing. (However, as with many quotes that are purported to have originated with the former prime minister of Great Britain, the author was someone other than Churchill).*

The history of books shows the humblest origin of some of the most valued, wrought as these were out of obscure materials by persons whose names thereafter became illustrious. The thumbed volumes, now so precious to thousands, were compiled from personal experiences and owe their interest to touches of inspiration of which the writer was less author than amanuensis, himself the voiced word of life for all times.

There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.

AB: It's a great gift. It was the training: to listen, to observe. Those skills are very much what you need as a writer. Keep your mouth shut and see what's happening around you. Don't finish people's sentences for them. Don't just hear what they say, but also how they behave while they're saying it. That was great training for writing.

used to write copy. My boss told me: If you gotta say it's upscale, it ain't. My boss said, It's like that guy who tells you he's funny.

Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.

It was terrifying, liberating, and risky. But one day I woke up and decided to try it." (On writing her first novel, "Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women's Literary Society")

Writers, naturally, dream of becoming authors. Authors dream of writing a bestseller. Bestselling authors want to write more bestsellers. And everyone hopes for big prizes. Why? Because we believe in magic." Publisher's Weekly magazine, Dec. 12, 2011

I'll be on the couch, bleeding through a number two pencil.

All Americans wrote better in Europe. They crossed the ocean, and every word they wrote was brilliant. "There's someone at my door," Maddy

We all hate moral ambiguity in some sense, and yet it is also absolutely necessary. In writing a story, it is the place where I begin.

Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.

I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject - skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge.

You can do what you like to a writer if you don't mind being put in a book.

My plan is to continue teaching many more years than the 32 years I've already enjoyed and continue writing, and promoting my books and websites if it's God will.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

An aphorism is a generalization of sorts, and our present-day writers seem more at home with the particular.

I'm filled with desire—to live, to write, to do everything. Desire itself is a kind of immortality.

The beautiful things I have seen are still so vivid in my mind that I feel the task of writing them would be a useless fatigue. Why spoil my pleasure-trip by collecting notes? Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

Je mets pas mal de choses d'abord sur mon papier ; ensuite j'ajoute la simplicité.

There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state.

La vie est autre que ce qu'on écrit.