150+ Writing Quotes Every Author Needs to Read Now

All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.

Writing is both mask and unveiling.

A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.

I hate writing, I love having written.

Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me.

A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.

Chase your dreams until you catch them...and then dream, catch, and dream again!

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’.

Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.

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

When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened.

I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words.

Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?

I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.

Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.

Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.

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

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

the writing of somemenis like a vast bridgethat carries youoverthe many thingsthat claw and tear.The Wine of Forever

great writers are indecent peoplethey live unfairlysaving the best part for paper.good human beings save the worldso that bastards like me can keep creating art,become immortal.if you read this after I am deadit means I made it.

unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it

There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.

nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing.