Quotes and sayings about tag  writing

385 Quotes

I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography.

Steven Wright

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.

Steven Wright

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.

Susan Sontag

Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever.

Sylvia Plath

let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences

Sylvia Plath

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

Sylvia Plath

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

T.S. Eliot

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

T.S. Eliot

Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.Sometimes it's the only story you knew how to tell.

Tahereh Mafi

What’s writing really about? It’s about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life.

Ted Hughes

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

Tennessee Williams

The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.

Terry Pratchett

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Thomas Jefferson

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Thomas Mann

Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance.

Thomas Pynchon

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