Writing Quotes and Sayings
Writing is one-third imagination, one-third experience, and one third observation.
- William Faulkner
A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
- William Faulkner
Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.
- William Faulkner
I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
- William Faulkner
Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
- William Faulkner
In writing, you must kill all your darlings.
- William Faulkner
The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
- Thomas Wolfe
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Reading makes a full man, writing a precise man.
- Francis Bacon
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
The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.
- L. M. Montgomery
Writing without responsibility is like taking out your cloths in public and begging people to not look at you.
- M.F.Moonzajer
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
- T.S. Eliot
I don’t see how you can write anything of value if you don’t offend someone.
- Marvin Harris
With writing, we have second chances.
- Jonathan Safran Foer
I write for the same reason I breathe … because if I didn’t, I would die.
- Isaac Asimov
The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.
- Ernest Hemingway
You are what you write.
- Helvy Tiana Rosa
Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.
- Stephen King
There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.
- Frank Herbert