WRITING QUOTES – are inspiring for you to be a writer. The first draft of everything is shit. If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write. Here are some Writing Quotes to explore and share!
Write while the heat is in you… The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. -Henry David Thoreau Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. -E. L. Doctorow I had so many ideas. Jammed up. It was like they just needed permission to come out. -Stephen King You go where the story leads you. -Stephen King You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write. -Saul Bellow All bad writers are in love with the epic. -Ernest Hemingway Forget all the rules. Forget about being published. Write for yourself and celebrate writing. -Melinda Haynes If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter. -Blaise Pascal I am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on until I am. -Jane Austen A writer has the duty to be good, not lousy; true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend to lift people up, not lower them down. Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life. -E.B. White Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on. -Louis L’Amour Write with conviction. Pick a side and be bold. And if you’re wrong, admit it. – Jeff Goins Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself. -Truman Capote The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. -Tom Clancy It is perfectly okay to write garbage — as long as you edit brilliantly. – C. J. Cherryh One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. -Jack Kerouac It ain’t whatcha write, it’s the way atcha write it. -Jack Kerouac Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading. -Eudora Welty I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go. – F. Scott Fitzgerald Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it. – Oscar Wilde There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story. – Frank Herbert You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. -Ray Bradbury No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world. – Robin Williams The road to hell is paved with adverbs. – Stephen King A short saying often contains much wisdom. -Sophocles Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don’t think anyone could have made me do it, or prevented me from doing it. -J.K. Rowling Don’t let the bastards grind you down. -Margaret Atwood Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. -Virginia Woolf You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme – and when you so give yourself – you lose appetite ans sleep – it cannot be helped. -Charlotte Brontë Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. – Benjamin Franklin We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down. -Kurt Vonnegut The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life. – Zadie Smith There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. -Maya Angelou History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. -Winston Churchill People should be interested in books, not their authors. – Agatha Christie The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes. -Andre Gide A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends. – Friedrich Nietzsche The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself. -Albert Camus Writing is the painting of the voice. -Voltaire If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it. – Toni Morrison Write drunk, edit sober. -Ernest Hemingway You can make anything by writing. -C.S. Lewis Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve. – J.K. Rowling A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit. -Richard Bach The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love. -Ray Bradbury Shoot for the top, always. You know you’ll never make it, but what’s the fun if you don’t shoot for the top? -Ursula K. Le Guin The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. -Vladimir Nabokov The first draft of everything is shit. -Ernest Hemingway There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at the typewriter and bleed. -Ernest Hemingway If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write. -Martin Luther
WRITING QUOTES – are inspiring for you to be a writer. The first draft of everything is shit. If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write. Here are some Writing Quotes to explore and share!