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

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Ernest Hemingway

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

The first draft of anything is shit.

Ernest Hemingway

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

Cyril Connolly

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

Ernest Hemingway

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

Daphne du Maurier

Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.

Flannery O'Connor

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

Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction. It's not a grand enough job for you.

Flannery O'Connor

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

Write what should not be forgotten.

Isabel Allende

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

Diane Setterfield

Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.

J.D. Salinger

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

Don Roff

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