Write what should not be forgotten. – Isabel Allende
Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them. – John Steinbeck
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. – Robert Louis Stevenson
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
A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive. – Che Guevara
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. – George Orwell
Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s. – Stephen King
The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it. – Ernest Hemingway
Writing keeps you honest by revealing your understanding or lack of it. – Shane Parrish
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
Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none. – Jules Renard
If you want to write, start writing now in your own home town and write every day as hard as you can; do not think you have to go to Paris and wait for inspiration to strike. – Thomas Wolfe
Writing reveals what thinking conceals. – Shane Parrish
In writing, you must kill all your darlings. – William Faulkner
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Writing that lacks simplicity reveals thinking that lacks understanding. – Shane Parrish
Use the creative process – singing, writing, art, dance, whatever – to get to know yourself better. – Catie Curtis
I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day. – William Faulkner
There are two kinds of sculptures. There’s the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And then there is the kind that adds, building with clay, piling it on. The way I write novels is to keep piling on and piling on and piling on. – Jonathan Safran Foer
A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. – Thomas Mann
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