Quotes and sayings about tag  writing

385 Quotes

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible

Vladimir Nabokov

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

Voltaire

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

W. Somerset Maugham

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

W. Somerset Maugham

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

W.H. Auden

Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

Walter Benjamin

The job of the writer is to take a close and uncomfortable look at the world they inhabit, the world we all inhabit, and the job of the novel is to make the corpse stink.

Walter Mosley

If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day... You don't go to a well once but daily. You don't skip a child's breakfast or forget to wake up in the morning...

Walter Mosley

You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.

Warren Ellis

You know, everybody's ignorant, just on different subjects.

Will Rogers

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.

Will Self

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

Willa Cather

In writing, you must kill all your darlings.

William Faulkner

If a story is in you, it has to come out.

William Faulkner

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good.

William Faulkner

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