Writing is an extreme privilege but it’s also a gift. It’s a gift to yourself and it’s a gift of giving a story to someone. – Amy Tan
Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it. – J. K. Rowling
Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing. – Sylvia Plath
If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. – Toni Morrison
Tears are words that need to be written. – Paulo Coelho
A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit. – Richard Bach
Read, read, read. Read everything – trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window. – William Faulkner
Pen is the tongue of mind. – Horace
The beautiful part of writing is that you don’t have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. – Robert Cormier
By virtue of writing we convey vital knowledge to those still to come…long after we’ve left… – Adiela Akoo
Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11. – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge. – H.G. Wells
I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters. – Frank Lloyd Wright
You can make anything by writing. – C.S. Lewis
A writer is nothing without a reader; a reader is nothing without a writer. – Anthony Liccione
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. – Benjamin Franklin
If a writer is daydreaming, leave them be. They could be plotting their next great story. – Graeme Roberts
We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it. – Anthony Burgess
You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we’re doing it. – Neil Gaiman
The best thing about being a writer is having the capacity to touch the heart of another being with your words. – Adiela Akoo
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