Quotes and sayings about tag  writing

385 Quotes

You can fix anything but a blank page.

Nora Roberts

Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.

Norman Mailer

I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.

Octavia E. Butler

You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.

Octavia E. Butler

First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.

Octavia E. Butler

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.

Orson Scott Card

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

Oscar Wilde

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Oscar Wilde

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

Oscar Wilde

She looked away. Her attitude seemed to suggest that she had finished with him, and would be obliged if somebody would come and sweep him up.

P.G. Wodehouse

I want to see thirstIn the syllables,Tough fireIn the sound;Feel through the darkFor the scream.

Pablo Neruda

Poems are never finished - just abandoned

Paul Valéry

Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power and the voyage. All of us writers rewrite these same stories ad infinitum.

Paulo Coelho

Tears are words that need to be written.

Paulo Coelho

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

Pearl S. Buck

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