Category Archives: Quotes about Writing

Parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. 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 atContinue reading “Great Writing Quotes by Author Ernest Hemingway”

There is no greater power on this earth than story. I know because I read…Your mind is not a cage. It’s a garden. And it requires cultivating. The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings of ALL human beings, and itContinue reading “Great Writing Quotes by Author Libba Bray”

No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination. Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The important thing is not what we write but how we write, and in my opinion the modern writer must be an adventurer above all,Continue reading “Great Writing Quotes by Author James Joyce”

All books are doors; and some of them are wardrobes. A piece of writing is like a piece of magic. You create something out of nothing. Did you ever look into an English novel? Well, do not trouble yourself. It is nothing but a lot of nonsense about girls with fanciful names getting married. ______________Continue reading “Great Writing Quotes by Author Susanna Clarke”

You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more. At newspapers, the idea of having writer’s block would be considered a joke. Writing comes down to momentum. It’s like surfing—getting up on the board and staying up as long as you can. The most important thingContinue reading “Great Writing Quotes by Author Michael Connelly”

Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it’s the answer to everything. … It’s the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flowerContinue reading “Great Writing Quotes by Author Enid Bagnold”

A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes. Writing is a trade … which is learned by writing. The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels. I willingly trust myself to chance. I let my thoughts wander, I digress, not only sitting at my work,Continue reading “Great Writing Quotes by Author Simone de Beauvoir”

Satire is a sort of mirror glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own. Then, rising with Aurora’s light, The Muse invoked, sit down to write; Blot out, correct, insert, refine, Enlarge, diminish, interline. What poet would not grieve to see His brother write as well as he? But rather than theyContinue reading “Great Writing Quotes by Author Jonathan Swift”

“All you can do is try to write as well as you can.” – Harold Pinter “To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.” – Anne Rice “I kept always 2 books in my pocket, 1 to read, 1 to write in.” – Robert Louis Stevenson “Writing is like a sport, it’sContinue reading “5 Great Quotations for Aspiring Writers”

“I try to write about the stuff that torments us all.” – Danielle Steel “All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.” – Isabel Allende “Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.” – Barbara Kingsolver “Everybody walksContinue reading “5 Great Quotations about Story Ideas”