Writing Quotes and Sayings
A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.
- Ernest Hemingway
I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual
- Virginia Woolf
The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.
- Anaïs Nin
The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
- Salvador Dali
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
- Robert Frost
Writing without responsibility is like taking out your cloths in public and begging people to not look at you.
- M.F.Moonzajer
You can make anything by writing.
- C.S. Lewis
A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
- Thomas Mann
If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.
- Stephen King
Easy reading is damn hard writing.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
- Ernest Hemingway
Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.
- Jules Renard
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
- Robert Frost
An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
- François- René de Chateaubriand
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
- Maya Angelou
Tears are words that need to be written.
- Paulo Coelho
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
- Henry David Thoreau
I don’t see how you can write anything of value if you don’t offend someone.
- Marvin Harris
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
- W. Somerset Maugham
The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
- Stephen King