20 Quotes About Writing
Here are 20 writing-related quotes. I hope these will amuse and/or inspire my fellow writers.
You know you should be writing. Get off Twitter – Yvette Kate Willemse
Grammar, you’re the pickiest noun I know – Buffy Andrews
Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders – Walter Bagehot
Pen-bereavement is a serious matter – Anne Fadiman
Discipline is the bridge between a great idea and a completed novel – T. N. Suarez
They say a picture is worth 1,000 words. I say its closer to 675 or 700 – A. E. Samaan
He carried a pencil that put a camera to shame – E. B. White
I always start writing with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind —Patrick Dennis
You cannot write unless you write much – W. Somerset Maugham
Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters – A. Lee Martinez
The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in – Henry Green
The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress — Philip Roth
Before publishers’ blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing – Laurence J. Peter
Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard – Daphne du Maurier
Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life —Hunter S. Thompson
An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory – Franklin P. Jones
The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair – Mary Heaton Vorse
Writers don’t have lifestyles. They sit in little rooms and write – Norman Mailer
You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write – Saul Bellow
Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good – Dr. Samuel Johnson, to an aspiring writer
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Some good quotations here, Guy. I particularly like the one by Saul Bellow. I always think the best lines are those that come to us in a flash of inspiration and it’s a lovely feeling when an idea comes into your mind without you having to labour over it in front of a computer screen for hours
I can certainly appreciate that Heather.
Some good ones here Guy.
Thanks Trina.
Excellent as usual, Guy. Happy weekend. I have to agree with Norman Mailer.
I agree John, Mailer might have been a fruitcake but his observation is correct.
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