Writing Quotes

Welcome to my writing quotes. Writing is one of those natural talents I have always wanted. I believe every person has at least one book in them. Writers have the magic to play with your imagination and change you as a person. Some writers have changed my life for the better.

• WRITING QUOTE OF THE PAGE
  If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
  Toni Morrison


• Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say.
  Sharon O'Brien


• The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
  Anaïs Nin


• And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
  Sylvia Plath


• I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.
  Richard Wright


• The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium.
  Norbet Platt


• Ink and paper are sometimes passionate lovers, oftentimes brother and sister, and occasionally mortal enemies.
  Emme Woodhull-Bäche


• The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.
  Mark Twain


• A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.
  Charles Peguy


• Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
  C. S. Lewis


• Writing is my time machine, takes me to the precise time and place I belong.
  Jeb Dickerson


• Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
  Cyril Connolly






• I try to leave out the parts that people skip.
  Elmore Leonard


• What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.
  Logan Pearsall Smith


• I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter. James Michener


• The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.
  Jules Renard


• Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
  William Wordsworth


• It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop.
  Vita Sackville-West


• Easy reading is damn hard writing.
  Nathaniel Hawthorne


• A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
  Karl Kraus


• When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.
  Samuel Lover


• The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.
  Benjamin Disraeli


• I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.
  James Michener


• Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
  C. S. Lewis


• Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
  Carol Burnett


• A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
  Edith Wharton

Thanks for passing by my writing quotes. These writing quotes remind me of the magic of words. Till next time.

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