I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t I would die. – Isaac Asimov
Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s. – Stephen King
I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions. – James A. Michener
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader. – Robert Frost
The best fame is a writer’s fame. It’s enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted when you eat. – Fran Lebowitz
Easy reading is damn hard writing. – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. – Stephen King
If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that. – Stephen King
Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing. – William Faulkner
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. – E.L. Doctorow
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
Writing without responsibility is like taking out your cloths in public and begging people to not look at you. – M.F.Moonzajer
It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure. – Horace
Every time I am alone, a pen and a book are my best friends.
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. – W. Somerset Maugham
Writing enables us to leave our mark on the world and reach into the future. – Adiela Akoo
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart. – Maya Angelou
I hate writing, I love having written. – Dorothy Parker
Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones. At any rate, you never write it quite the way you want to. – Sylvia Plath
There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them. – Mason Cooley
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