Writing Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

Here is a collection of writing quotes and sayings from various authors, celebrities, famous persons, and other sources compiled by allinspiration.com for you to read and enjoy.

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
– Ernest Hemingway

“But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you’ve got to compromise. You’ve got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.”
– Colin Powell

“Substitute “damn” every time you’re inclined to write “very”; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
– Mark Twain

“I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done.”
– Steven Wright

“I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.”
– Anna Quindlen

“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.”
– Graham Greene

“If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.”
– Anais Nin

“I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.”
– Ernest Hemingway

“A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.”
– Marcus Garvey

“If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.”
– Francis Bacon

“My stories run up and bite me on the leg – I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.”
– Ray Bradbury

“If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.”
– Ernest Hemingway

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
– W. Somerset Maugham

“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.”
– Ernest Hemingway

“I don’t care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you’re also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.”
– Nora Ephron

“One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.”
– John Adams

“We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“You fail only if you stop writing.”
– Ray Bradbury

“Dreams are illustrations… from the book your soul is writing about you.”
– Marsha Norman

“Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day – like writing a poem or saying a prayer.”
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.”
– Winston Churchill

“Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.”
– Ernest Hemingway

“There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.”
– Mason Cooley

“People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don’t know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.”
– J. K. Rowling

“I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.”
– Robert Frost

“Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.”
– Gloria Steinem

“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne

“That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing – which is never an easy thing to do.”
– V. S. Naipaul

“Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.”
– Roald Dahl

“In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.”
– Will Rogers

“Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I’d start writing poems about suicide.”
– Jack Nicholson

“I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.”
– Alice Walker

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