Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader. – Joseph Joubert
Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing. – William Faulkner
So what? All writers are lunatics! – Cornelia Funke
Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences. – Sylvia Plath
Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted. – Jules Renard
If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book. – Shereen El Feki
I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words. – Ovid
I do want to work on writing, because writing’s a skill. Writing is something that you can train yourself to know better. To know yourself better. And it’s intimidating as hell. – Kristen Stewart
If I do not write to empty my mind, I go mad. – Lord Byron
If you want to think about something, write it out. – Shane Parrish
A drop of ink may make a million think. – Lord Byron
Writing is something you do alone. It’s a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don’t want to make eye contact while doing it. – John Green
An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice. – Mark Twain
The pen, they say, is mightier than the sword, having the capacity to change narratives and landscapes. As writers, we have a moral responsibility to leave the world a better place. – Adiela Akoo
Writing about an idea frees me of it. Thinking about it is a circle of repetitions. – Mason Cooley
There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story. – Frank Herbert
Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them. – John Steinbeck
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. – Ernest Hemingway
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. – Robert Louis Stevenson
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself. – Albert Camus
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