Writing Quotes

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

Thinking, Different, Three

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

Money, Yourself, Long

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

Acting, Point, Space

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

Off, Idea, Takes

Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.
Marsha Norman

Dreams, Book, Soul

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.
Amy Tan

Yourself, Someone, Giving

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

Different, Two, Place

I am a drinker with writing problems.
Brendan Behan

Problems, Drinker

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
Horace

Good, Sense, Both

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.
James Joyce

Why, Reason, Lives

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

Good, Important, Give

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
Samuel Butler

Doubt, Him, Tell

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression - all of that is very important.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Important, Give, Expression

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
Alice Walker

Violence, Sin, Saved

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

Old, Keep, Wanted

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

Someone, Real, Joy

Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
Samuel Beckett

Nothing, Silence, Else

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

Religion, After, Problem

That isn't writing at all, it's typing.
Truman Capote

Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.
Sylvia Plath

Nothing, Pile, Stinks

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.
Keith Richards

Life, Ambiguity, Ambiguous

It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
E. O. Wilson

Difficult, Writer, Novel

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
Virginia Woolf

Money, Nothing, Read

When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
Carl Sandburg

Poetry, Girl, Black

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.
Stephen King

Time, Home, School

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.
Stephen King

Hope, Someone, Done

Writing is the supreme solace.
W. Somerset Maugham

Supreme, Solace

Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.
W. Somerset Maugham

Life, Broken, Soon

Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Single, Thinking, Words

Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
Gore Vidal

Faith, Business, Lost

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