100+ Writing Quotes & Sayings

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

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The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

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The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.

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The first draft of anything is shit.

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Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

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

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Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.

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It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

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

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I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

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My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

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

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I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.

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A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

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A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.

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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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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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I hate writing, I love having written.

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Don't get it right - get it WRITTEN!

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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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It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.

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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

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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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Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

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Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

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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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A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

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In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.

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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

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Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

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Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.

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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.

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A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.

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You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

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

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If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

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Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.

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I'm writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.

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

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