Category Archives: Quotes about Writing

A lack of narrative structure, as you know, will cause anxiety. … my first literary heroes were the Romantic poets, so I began to get serious by writing poems. I have notebooks full of them that I cherish but am afraid to look at. As a writer you can and should expect to hear conflictingContinue reading “Great Writing Quotes by Author John Dufresne”

I think of myself as writing for one person, that one perfect reader who understands and loves. The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that’s saying a lot. All I am is the trick of words writing themselves. It’s a little mad, but I believeContinue reading “Great Writing Quotes by Author Anne Sexton”

Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation and the disillusioning knowledge of truth. ‘Lost Illusion’ is the undisclosed title of every novel. A great writer has a high respect for values. His essential function is to raiseContinue reading “Great Writing Quotes by Author Andre Maurois”

The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it. Teaching English and teaching Writing are two separate things. My primary motivation for writing is to communicate my perceptions and insights into the human condition, in a way that may provide understanding, comfort, and company to others. Language achieves soul onlyContinue reading “Great Writing Quotes by Author Vanna Bonta”

When I am writing, I’m very much on the ground, on the same ground my characters are treading. If you can’t stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a locked cell, or, when it gets tougher still, the vague feeling ofContinue reading “Great Writing Quotes by Author Graham Swift”

The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one’s home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard. Of course it’s all right for librarians to smell of drink. My thoughts went round and round and itContinue reading “Great Writing Quotes by Author Barbara Pym”

It takes so many thousands of things coming together at the right moment just to make a poem that no one could ever really separate, and say this did this, that did that. People say I am a perfectionist. The truth is that I often return to a poem started months or years before. IContinue reading “Great Writing Quotes by Poet Elizabeth Bishop”

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced. To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, andContinue reading “Great Writing Quotes by Author Aldous Huxley”

…if you do not even understand what words say,/how can you expect to pass judgement/on what words conceal? Words were her plague and words were her redemption. I have tasted words, I have seen them. Love is writing. ______________ My name is Rob Bignell. I’m an affordable, professional editor who runs Inventing Reality Editing Service, which meetsContinue reading “Great Writing Quotes by Poet Hilda Doolittle”