Writing Quotes

It's very important that we start creating new content again. We can only build on nostalgia so much before we have nothing left to build on.

If I wrote what I really think, I would be so sad all the time. We create to fill a gap - not just to avoid the idea of dying, it's to fill some particular gap in ourselves.

I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it.

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

You ask me why I do not write something....I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.

Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.

Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment.

Vigorous writing is concise.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.

There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.

You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.

Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.

Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.