Writing Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.”
– J. K. Rowling

“The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.”
– J. K. Rowling

“The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.”
– Steve Martin

“Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.”
– Robert Frost

“Love is easy, and I love writing. You can’t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you’re in love.”
– Ray Bradbury

“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.”
– Truman Capote

“Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.”
– Ross Perot

“I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.”
– Stephen King

“There is creative reading as well as creative writing.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.”
– Moliere

“Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.”
– Robert A. Heinlein

“True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.”
– Alexander Pope

“Being in a rock band is about touring. It’s about writing songs and it’s about making records but it’s also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves.”
– James Young

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
– Ray Bradbury

“Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.”
– Gene Fowler

“For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I’m still awake. I can continue yesterday’s dream today, something you can’t normally do in everyday life.”
– Haruki Murakami

“No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.”
– Booker T. Washington

“All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.”
– Isabel Allende

“I am a drinker with writing problems.”
– Brendan Behan

“All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.”
– Dave Barry

“You know, the process of making a documentary is one of discovery, and like writing a story, you follow a lead and that leads you to something else and then by the time you finish, the story is nothing like you expected.”
– William Shatner

“It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.”
– W. H. Auden

“Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.”
– Napoleon Hill

“Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other.”
– Nora Roberts

“Even when I’m writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I’m writing for.”
– Wole Soyinka

“In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.”
– William S. Burroughs

“I’m writing an unauthorized autobiography.”
– Steven Wright

“Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.”
– Layne Staley

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