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| There’s nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein. ~ Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith |
| You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. ~ Ray Bradbury |
| So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it. ~ Harold Acton, |
| The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. ~ Anaïs Nin |
| Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. ~ E.L. Doctorow |
| A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. ~ Charles Peguy |
| And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. ~ Sylvia Plath |
| I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all. ~ Richard Wright, |
| I try to leave out the parts that people skip. ~ Elmore Leonard |
| If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. ~ Toni Morrison |
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| What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers. ~ Logan Pearsall Smith, "All Trivia," |
| The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium. ~ Norbet Platt |
| It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop. ~ Vita Sackville-West |
| Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn’t wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say. ~ Sharon O’Brien |
| Substitute "damn" every time you’re inclined to write "very;" your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. ~ Mark Twain |
| I’m not a very good writer, but I’m an excellent rewriter. ~ James Michener |
| The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say. ~ Mark Twain |
| The wastebasket is a writer’s best friend. ~ Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| Don’t be too harsh to these poems until they’re typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction. ~ Dylan Thomas |
| Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ~ William Wordsworth |
| 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 Nabakov |
| Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. ~ Anton Chekhov |
| Easy reading is damn hard writing. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Ink and paper are sometimes passionate lovers, oftentimes brother and sister, and occasionally mortal enemies. ~ Terri Guillemets |
| Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. ~ Orson Scott Card |
| A metaphor is like a simile. ~ Author Unknown |
| The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. ~ Mark Twain |
| The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it. ~ Jules Renard |
| Proofread carefully to see if you any words out. ~ Author Unknown |
| A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. ~ Karl Kraus |