100+ Writing Quotes & Sayings

Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version.

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If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.

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A lie was something you told because you were mean or a coward. A story was something you made up out of something that might have happened. Only you didn't tell it like it was, you told it like you thought it should have been.

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The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning and inhibit clarity.

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The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

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Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.

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10 Steps to Becoming a Better WriterWrite.Write more.Write even more.Write even more than that.Write when you don’t want to.Write when you do.Write when you have something to say.Write when you don’t.Write every day.Keep writing.

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When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.

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

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

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Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.

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If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses and your virtue, is a bonus.

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A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

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He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge."

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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?

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

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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.

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

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

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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’.

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

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

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

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

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I hate writing, I love having written.

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Writing is both mask and unveiling.

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

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Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

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How do I know what I think until I see what I say?

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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.

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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.

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I write to find out what I'm talking about.

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