Quotes and sayings about tag  #writing

Quotes and sayings about tag  writing

385 Quotes

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

Craig Claiborne

If you can quit, then quit. If you can't quit, you're a writer.

R.A. Salvatore

Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.

Red Haircrow

A tamed woman will never leave her mark in the world.

Robert M. Drake

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.

Criss Jami

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.

Criss Jami

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

Cyril Connolly

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

Daphne du Maurier

The best kind of humans are the ones who stay.

Robert M. Drake

Appreciate the moment of a first kiss; it may be the last time you own your heart.

Robert M. Drake

Suddenly, everything was beautiful. The way she viewed the world was nothing more but a reflection of herself.

Robert M. Drake

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’.

David Mitchell

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

David Sedaris

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

Dee Marie

Sometimes to self-discover you must self-destruct.

Robert M. Drake

We swallowed the chaos because we knew we didn't want to be ordinary.

Robert M. Drake

Madness and chaos are self-destructing but over thinking is the suicide.

Robert M. Drake

But dear, don’t be afraid of love it’s only magic.

Robert M. Drake

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

Diane Setterfield

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

Dodie Smith

Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.

Don Roff

If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.

Dorothy Parker

Society will always be too fragile to accept us for all that makes us beautiful.

Robert M. Drake

Sometimes the most beautiful people are beautifully broken.

Robert M. Drake

I hate writing, I love having written.

Dorothy Parker

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

Douglas Adams

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.

Dylan Thomas

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

E.L. Doctorow

The story is always better than your ability to write it.

Robin McKinley

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.

Tim O'Brien

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