Quotes and sayings about tag  writing

385 Quotes

Sometimes the most beautiful people are beautifully broken.

Robert M. Drake

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Robin McKinley

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

Saul Bellow

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.

Sharon Olds

The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for a book — something in which the reader can get happily lost, if the tale is done well and stays fresh.

Stephen King

All I need is a sheet of paperand something to write with, and thenI can turn the world upside down.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is the tale, not he who tells it.

Stephen King

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

G.K. Chesterton

you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

Stephen King

Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale..

Gabriel García Márquez

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

Tennessee Williams

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